Job summary

You will serve as the Distinguished Scientist/Engineer, Autonomous Systems of the Research Department at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWPNDIV) China Lake.

Major duties

You will be responsible for managing very high level and challenging research and development programs. You will be responsible for leading the teams who carry out the engineering and scientific work. You will serve as a consultant, who furnishes highly advanced and/or unprecedented scientific and/or technical guidance and recommendations to top-level administrative and technical management officials You will perform and/or manage research and development in the physical, biological, medical, or engineering sciences, or another field closely related to the NAWC STRL mission. You will serve as an authoritative technical advisor in a rapidly evolving complex field with extensive impact on Navy operations. You will ensure sound fiscal management to sustain technical projects by analyzing and monitoring resources and providing planning information, recommendations, and decisions for future projected spending.

Qualification

The applicant is to provide a separate narrative statement which describes fully, but concisely, how his/her experience supports each of the following Mandatory Technical Qualifications. Each technical qualification narrative should not exceed 2 pages. Failure to address these specific qualifications in a separate narrative statement will eliminate you from consideration: 1. Demonstrated ability research, develop, engineer, test, evaluate, standardize, procure/produce, and furnish fleet support of autonomous systems and algorithms, and to establish and document a strategy that drives science and technology planning, resources and support necessary to develop requisite technical capabilities. 2. Ability to manage and lead engineers and scientists across multiple disciplines to develop necessary core science and technology skills through internal and external sponsorship to explore technology, propose solutions, and design and develop capabilities for customers to integrate, test, and deliver autonomous systems products and services. 3. Experience contributing to the innovation of autonomous systems to enable dynamic intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions with multiple assets, support targeting systems, electronic warfare applications and manned and unmanned platforms operating cooperatively in uncertain environments. 4. Demonstrated ability to stimulate, plan, coordinate, and review the full spectrum of Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation efforts applicable to the development of autonomous systems technologies. 5. Demonstrated ability to engage and collaborate with other senior members of the S&T community including resource sponsors and stakeholders (e.g OPNAV, PEOs, PMAs, OSD, ONR, DARPA) and other Naval SYSCOMs and Warfare Centers, as well as leaders in the Joint Services, industry, academia and coalition partners. 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=GS-PROF AND 0801 Professional Engineering Series 1310 Physics Series 1320 Chemistry Series 1520 Mathematics Series 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 positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: For 0801 Professional Engineering Series: A. Degree: Engineering. Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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- 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: (I) 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; or (II) 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, and Puerto Rico; or (III) 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A; or (IV) 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 bachelor's 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) OR For 1310 Physics Series: Successful completion of a degree in physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics; or a combination of education and experience demonstrated by courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In either A or B above, 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 For 1320 Chemistry Series: A. Degree: physical sciences, life sciences, or engineering that included 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by course work in mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics.-or- B. Combination of education and experience -- course work equivalent to a major as shown in A above, including at least 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics, plus appropriate experience or additional education. OR For 1520 Mathematics Series: A. Degree: mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics.-or-B. Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics), as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable.

Evaluations

When the application process is complete, we will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this announcement. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supporting documentation to determine your ability to demonstrate the mandatory technical qualifications listed above. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation. If after reviewing your resume and supporting documentation, a determination is made that you inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may be found ineligible/not qualified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. All qualifications requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.