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INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER

STRATEGIC SYSTEMS PROGRAMS (SSP)

Department of the Navy

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$143,913 - $197,200

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GS-13 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $88,520 - $115,079

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-12. Expert-level knowledge in field.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves working as an engineer on major defense projects, where you'll plan and solve problems related to designing, testing, and producing weapon systems, while managing budgets and coordinating with teams.

It's ideal for experienced engineers who enjoy tackling technical challenges in a government setting and have a background in military acquisitions.

You'll need strong organizational skills to handle reports, meetings, and resource optimization across different groups.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-13 or NH-03 in professional engineering, focusing on DoD acquisition framework and systems
  • Professional engineering background in design, development, test, evaluation, production, and logistics of large-scale systems
  • Ability to develop and maintain system engineering and acquisition documents per DoD processes
  • Experience liaising with diverse teams including subsystem developers, contractors, and warfare centers to coordinate activities
  • Skills in producing reports, metrics, and briefing materials for leadership in program reviews and technical meetings
  • Proficiency in budget planning, defending requests, and managing financial expenditures

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.

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-03 pay band (GS-13 equivalent) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as a professional engineer in the areas of the DoD acquisition framework and systems.

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/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 serve as a systems engineer responsible to plan, track and assess overall progress, and develop solutions for technical, schedule, and cost problems that arise during the design, development, test and evaluation, production, and logistics.
  • You will be responsible for development and maintenance of system engineering and acquisition documents for a large DoD weapon system program in accordance with DoD acquisition framework and system engineering processes.
  • You will liaise across a diverse workforce comprised of technical branch subsystem developers, integrated product teams, contractors, and warfare centers to coordinate, deconflict and optimize activities and resources.
  • You will produce reports, metrics, and briefing materials as necessary to brief leadership on assigned work areas in program reviews, working groups, acquisition milestones, and system engineering technical reviews.
  • You will develop budget planning factors, defend budget requests to the Board of Directors, track and manage financial expenditures.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/3/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/4/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DE-12901901-26-DL