INTERDISCIPLINARY

You will serve as a ELECTRICAL ENGINEER OR ELECTRONICS ENGINEER in the UNMANNED UNDERSEA SYSTEMS DIVISION within the UNMANNED & THEATER UNDERSEA WARFARE SYSTEMS DEPT of NAVUNSEAWARCENDIV KEYPORT WA.

Major duties

• You will architect, design, and implement complete data and control pathways for new and modified undersea systems.
• You will define and document the physical, electrical, and software interfaces required to integrate custom or COTS payloads, sensors, and actuators with vehicle control modules and processing systems.
• You will apply engineering principles to the integration of embedded hardware components.
• You will establish and verify physical bus connectivity, signal integrity, and communication protocols between microcontrollers, single-board computers, and peripheral devices.
• You will perform systematic, multi-domain root-cause analysis of complex system failures.
• You will employ a structured diagnostic methodology to isolate and resolve intermittent faults across the hardware, firmware, and software layers of embedded systems.
• You will develop and execute validation and verification plans for integrated hardware and software components.
• You will conduct benchtop, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and simulation-based testing to safely mitigate risks and verify system functionality prior to full-scale deployment.
• You will devise and prototype novel engineering solutions to adapt standard practices and components for unusual or constrained applications.
• You will translate mission requirements and system-level designs into functional hardware and software implementations.

Qualifications

For the GS-12: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer integrating hardware and software for vehicle systems to ensure products meet or exceed requirements for a warfare program. Examples of qualifying experience may include: designing, developing, or testing embedded hardware/software systems; utilizing high-level programming languages (e.g., C, C++, or Python); or applying experience with microcontrollers, single-board computers, or embedded operating systems. For the GS-11: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-09) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer interpreting hardware and software integration assessments for vehicle systems to ensure products meet or exceed requirements for a warfare program. Examples of qualifying experience may include: designing, developing, or testing embedded hardware/software systems; utilizing high-level programming languages (e.g., C, C++, or Python); or applying experience with microcontrollers, single-board computers, or embedded operating systems. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily, there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.