COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Full Job Description

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer.

Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

GS-12 - $102,415 - $133,142 GS-11 - $85,447 - $111,087 GS-12: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience interacting with computer system architecture, system software, computer control, and interface to timing instrumentation.

Experience advising system planners on the latest developments and projections in the specialty field.

Experience developing applicable equipment standards, specifications, and guides while serving as a staff specialist.

Experience analyzing, developing, and recommending the establishment of standards concerning language protocols, system software organization and documentation, program testing, and applications programming techniques to be used throughout the agency.

Experience assisting in coordinating the efforts of ad hoc groups working on special procedures development projects; study long range needs and trends; assist in evaluating technical developments with a view to enhancing programmer productivity and improving program reliability and portability; help develop inter- and interagency ADP resource allocation plans.

Experience directly developing overall plans, criteria and programming specifications: participate in team efforts in accomplishing the work; integrate efforts with other projects underway; develop and direct information resource management requirements in shared processing environments for functionally distinct groups within the organization.

Experience preparing and implementing guidelines applicable to a variety of locally supported hardware and software for an integrated distributed processing database.

Will play a key role in formulating policies and in developing and implementing strategies and management guidelines for distributed processing systems.

GS-11: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: The supervisor provides administration directions with assignments in terms of broadly defined missions or functions.

Employees will be given a general outline of the tasks, from which the employee will determine appropriate goals and milestones, subject to review by the supervisor.

Conclusion based upon reports from the incumbent will be given considerable weight.

Guidelines exist in the form of general agency policy or reference materials, which are sometimes not completely applicable to the assignment.

Experience providing and using judgement is required to understand the applications and limitations of guidelines to make limited changes and adaptations.

Experience performing work that consists of various projects or studies that involve different and unrelated processes and methods.

Decisions regarding what needs to be done are complicated by unusual situations or issues. The employee displays judgment in the modification and adaptation of existing applications and techniques.

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/1500/computer-science-series-1550/ or https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards 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. Major Duties:

• You will design and maintain code and higher-level routines that are of a scientific, mathematical, statistical or engineering nature with emphasis on robustness, numerical precision, correctness of method, and machine efficiency.
• You will develop code in C and UNIX scripts or other operating systems that controls scientific equipment, solves computational problems, manages data flow on complex systems, and controls other computers.
• You will create, test, and document computer programs for developing state-of-the-art precision timing systems.
• You will coordinate installation of the computer equipment with vendors, facility support personnel, and official components to ensure physical and IA installation requirements.