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ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

Naval Air Systems Command

Department of the Navy

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$143,913 - $197,200

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GS-12/13 Pay Grade(Career Ladder)

Entry salary: $74,441 | Full performance (GS-13): up to $115,079

Career ladder: Start at GS-12 and advance to GS-13 with experience.

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves working as an electronics engineer for the Navy, focusing on designing and testing simulation equipment to evaluate electronic warfare systems in aircraft and combat environments.

You'll lead teams, manage projects, and ensure that tests accurately mimic real-world scenarios to support defense programs.

It's a great fit for experienced engineers with a background in avionics and simulation who enjoy technical leadership and problem-solving in a military context.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-12/13 level or equivalent in electronics engineering
  • Knowledge of multi-spectral environment generation and stimulation of avionics systems
  • Experience evaluating proposals and test configurations from other engineers and scientists
  • Project management skills, including resource allocation, budgeting, and technical oversight
  • Implementation of distributed simulation, installed systems testing, and mission system testing
  • Determining test requirements and handling verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) in test facilities
  • Professional engineering degree or equivalent qualifications per OPM standards

Full Job Description

YOU WILL SERVE AS AN ELECTRONICS ENGINEER IN THE DIGITAL ANALYTICS INFORMATION AND TECHNICAL ADVICE GROUP, INT BATTLESPACE SIMULATION AND TEST DEPARTMENT, INTEGRATED COMBAT ENVIRONMENTS DIVISION, ELECTRONIC COMBAT STIMULATION BRANCH OF NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12/13 grade level or pay band DP-04 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional ELECTRONICS ENGINEER performing duties such as: 1) Knowledge of multi-spectral environment generation, stimulation of installed avionics systems under test, and mission system performance and effectiveness testing; 2) Evaluate the feasibility and technical value of proposals and test configurations of other professionally mature engineers and scientists; 3) Demonstrating project management, resource allocation, budgeting, technical oversight and technical direction of test programs and development efforts; 4) Implement distributed simulation, installed systems testing, interoperability, Mission System testing, aircraft systems, training systems, and aircraft avionics systems; and 5) Determine test requirements and the verification, validation and accreditation (VV&A) of test configurations in an Installed Systems Test Facility (ISTF) and lab test environments.

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. Major Duties:

  • You will be responsible for all simulators for the competency, ensuring team members are properly coached to help them understand and apply new theoretical techniques to solve technical problems in support of T and E events.
  • You will provide technical direction and senior leadership to engineering and technical staff.
  • You will evaluate customer requirements, assists the customer in determining potential uses of ECSTIM assets, and supports the customer throughout the T and E process.
  • You will develop and design new simulation/stimulation equipment and T and E procedures for properly evaluating and solving problems for the DoD programs implementing Electronic Warfare (EW) systems.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/6/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/6/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12900589-26-LR