Interdisciplinary Electronics Engineer/Physicist

Full Job Description

This position is part of the Department of Defense (DoD), Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

The incumbent will be responsible for supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance (QS) Directorate as a subject matter expert in Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) for Parts, Materials, and Processes (PMP).

You may qualify at the NH-04 Broadband Level, if you fulfill the following qualifications: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS-13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below and must meet 2 of the 3 specialized experience listed below to be qualified: Experience in the application of military, industry, and parts, materials, and processes standards.

Experience with complex technical radiation data, in conjunction with programmatic information, to develop and defend positions and decisions.

Experience with radiation test facilities and text execution processes that enable mitigation of program deficiencies.

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).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

For the 0855 series: In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0855, series as listed below: A.

Degree: Engineering.

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.

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)1, 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)2 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.

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 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. 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 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.) For the 1310 series: In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 1310, series as listed below: A.

Degree: physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. 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.

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.

NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement. Major Duties:

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Acq Demo Business and Technical Management to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

As a Interdisciplinary Electronics Engineer/Physicist at the NH-0855/1310-4 broadband level, some of your typical work assignments may include: Radiation Hardness Assurance Program: Perform the assessment of a program's organizational structure for observance and execution of harness assurance tasks.

Verify subcontractor flow down of parts hardness assurance requirements and the methodology for validation of radiation specification levels and processes from all suppliers.

Radiation Environments: Identify the radiation environments a given system will be expected to operate in, including hostile environments, natural space radiation environments, and other nuclear radiation environments expected to be encountered during a mission.

Hardness Critical Items: Perform activities involved in assessing and addressing the Hardness Critical Items (HCI) that are identified and tracked throughout the acquisition process.

Identify any changes in fabrication and production process and materials that need to be evaluated to ensure no radiation hardness degradation has occurred.

Radiation Transport Analysis: Identify the correct application of basic radiation transport calculations needed to show that the actual environments at the electronics subassembly are bounded by the piece part test level(s) with the required radiation design.

Radiation Hardness Assurance Testing: Identify how Radiation Hardness Assurance piece part testing should be performed in response to several separate radiation environments.

Design Margins: Identify how the Harness Criticality Category of an electrical component is determined based on the Radiation Design Margin (RDM) as derived from radiation test data for the various effects and test environments.

Physics: Advise, administer, or perform research or other professional and scientific work in the investigation and application of the relations between space, time, matter, and energy in the areas of mechanics, sound, optics, heat, electricity, magnetism, radiation, or atomic and nuclear phenomena.