Interdisciplinary Engineer/Scientist Job in Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Vacancy No. DAFN255907818192HLF Department United States Army Futures Command
Salary $101,401.00 to $185,234.00 Grade 3 to 3
Perm/Temp Temporary FT/PT Full-time
Open Date 1/14/2025 Close Date 1/24/2025
Job Link Apply Online Who may apply Public
Locations:
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD


Summary

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will NOT be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants should review the "How to Apply" section of this flyer for more information on how to be considered. This flyer will be used as positions become available. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

This is an Interdisciplinary position and may be filled with any of the listed occupations.

Duties

  • The C5ISR Center is soliciting candidates to serve as a software engineer in the Avionic and Force Protection Software Support Division, Force Protection and Countermeasure Systems Branch.
  • Engineer will provide embedded technical support to Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEWS) Project Management Office Electronic Warfare and Cyber (PM EWC).
  • Support acquisition and fielding of integrated Intelligence, Electronic and Cyber Warfare capabilities to enable Spectrum and Cyberspace Superiority.
  • Interface with users and Army Capability Managers (ACM) to perform requirements formulation, decomposition, and traceability.
  • Lead, develop, and synchronize technical input to the acquisition process including Software Engineering Plans (SEP), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), and Technical Evaluations (TECHEVAL).
  • Lead, develop, and synchronize technical input to the acquisition process including Concepts of Operations (CONOP), Software Performance Specifications and Project Proposals.
  • Lead programmatic activities through the Integrated Product Team (IPT) framework including stakeholder management, risk management, and Technical Interchange/Exchange Meetings (TIM/TEM).
  • Lead programmatic activities through the Integrated Product Team (IPT) framework including distributed collaboration, staffing, software configuration management and software design reviews.
  • Coordinate and negotiate design and engineering activities with other related programs and organizations.
  • Prepares program documentation in support of the software engineering efforts.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

  • Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret Security Clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.
  • This position is covered by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program. The incumbent is required to sign a DA Form 5019-R and must pass urinalysis testing, as required prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
  • This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Engineering and Technical Management certification within 60 months as of entrance on duty.
  • Temporary business travel is required away from the duty station up to 25% of the time.
  • This position is a TERM not-to-exceed six year’s position that may be extended, without limit, in up to six-year increments. Term appointment Statement of Understanding may be required.
  • Extended trial/probationary period for the Engineers and Scientists Occupational Family is three years, unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.
  • Incumbent is required to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450 upon entering the position and annually, in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation, dated 17-Nov-2011.

Qualifications


We have various mid-level and senior level software engineering positions in the Avionic & Force Protection Software Support Division, providing support to Product Lead (PL) Strategic Spectrum Warfare (SSW). Support includes the following:

Available Positions:
1. Project Lead/Software Engineer - serves as the lead software engineer embedded into an interdisciplinary team that would Lead, develop, and synchronize technical input to the acquisition process including Software Engineering Plans (SEP), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Technical Evaluations (TECHEVAL), Concepts of Operations (CONOP), Software Performance Specifications and Project Proposals. Lead programmatic activities through the Integrated Product Team (IPT) framework including stakeholder management, risk management, Technical Interchange/Exchange Meetings (TIM/TEM), distributed collaboration, staffing, software configuration management and software design reviews.

2. Software Engineer - serves as an interdisciplinary engineer providing Support acquisition and fielding of integrated Intelligence, Electronic and Cyber Warfare capabilities to enable Spectrum and Cyberspace Superiority. Interface with users and Army Capability Managers (ACM) to perform requirements formulation, decomposition, and traceability. Coordinate and negotiate design and engineering activities with other related programs and organizations. Prepares program documentation in support of the software engineering efforts.

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.


SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade or band is required. It is defined as one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next to lower pay band or GS equivalent in the Federal Service which includes one or more of the following areas:
  1. Providing lifecycle software engineering support to the acquisition process in at least one of the following areas: requirements decomposition, technical planning, specification preparation, technical analyses, risk management, decision support, and acquisition milestones.
  2. Utilizing understanding of concepts, principles and practices of Software Engineering; and/or a general understanding of a variety of other engineering or scientific disciplines (mechanical, electrical, electronics, materials, computer, etc.); and a knowledge of agency policies and practices relative to engineering and logistics to serve as technical expert.
  3. Supporting the software development, maintenance, sustainment, or testing of electronic warfare products and technologies.
  4. Analyzing software engineering/scientific data for use in program/project improvement and/or troubleshooting.
  5. Utilizing Understanding of the software acquisition life cycle process to help manage risk, control costs, and ensure successful delivery of capabilities

800 Series Basic Education Requirement for a Supervisory Engineer (0801, 0830, 0850. 0854, 0855):
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) 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.
OR
B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1.Professional registration or licensure - 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2.Written Test - 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, or Puerto Rico.
3.Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
4.Related curriculum - 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 degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 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. (You MUST submit a copy of your transcripts along with a letter of reference stating that you have at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. The letter must be signed by the engineer who provided the professional engineer supervision. It must also include their name, phone number, and list their engineer credentials such as engineer education or professional certificates).

1301 Series Basic Education Requirement for a General Physical Scientist:
A. Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics
OR
B. Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

**Education requirements are continued below under "Education"

Education

Continue Basic Education Requirements:

1310 Series Basic Education Requirement for Physicist:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in physics, or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. The courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound
OR
B. Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound.

1550 Series Basic Education Requirement for Computer Scientist:
Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in computer science or bachelor's degree (or higher degree) with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.

1560 Series Basic Education Requirement for Data Scientist:
A. Degree: Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position.
OR
B. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.

Transcripts are required to meet the Basic Education for the applicable series.


FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.

Additional information

  • This announcement uses the Scientific and Engineering Positions (STRLs) direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.
  • Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
  • You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
  • Three year trial/probationary period may be required.
  • Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
  • This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
  • Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
  • If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
  • This is an Engineers and Scientists Non-Construction Career Field position.
  • Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
  • Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
  • Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
  • This is a Science and Technology Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project position and incorporates the GS-12 step 01 through GS-14 step 10.
  • This position has a positive education requirement and requires proof of education for eligibility. If the selectee is not already in the 0800 series, transcripts MUST be submitted prior to the action becoming effective.
  • Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website: 0800 series: all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf (opm.gov) https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

Benefits

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How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

As vacancies occur, the Human Resources Office will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this flyer. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supporting documentation.

If, after reviewing your rsum and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates.

If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation.

Required Documents

Your complete application includes your resume and other documents which prove your qualifications and eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.

1. Your resume:

  • Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
  • If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
  • For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you may not receive consideration for this position.
  • For additional information see: What to include in your resume.
2. Other supporting documents:
  • Cover Letter, optional
  • This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience. If you meet this requirement based on education you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package or you will be rated ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

How to Apply

Interested Applicants must submit resumes/application packages to: (RESUMES IN PDF FORMAT ARE PREFERRED)
EMAIL: usarmy.apg.devcom-c5isr.mbx.READINESS-ENGINEERING-HR@army.mil
SUBJECT LINE: FPCS Software Engineer

To apply for this position, you must submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section above. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Alternate applications (e.g., facsimile applications) will not be accepted.

The complete application package must be submitted to the email address provided above by 11:59 PM (EST) on 01/24/2025 to receive consideration.

Agency contact information

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Next steps

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