INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/ PHYSICIST

About this role

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12/13 grade level or DP-04 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Formulating, directing, interpreting, and applying test planning, policy, and strategy to ensure scientific validity, adequacy, and maximum efficiency in Electronic Warfare/Radar and Communication stimulation systems; 2) Performing detailed analysis of complex programs to identify problems and recommend solutions; 3) Applying a wide range of theories, concepts, principles, laws, rules, regulations, precedents, and procedures in relation to scenario based mission systems performance testing within an installed systems test facility; 4) Managing multiple funding sources and executing funding in a proper and efficient manner for an organization.

Specialized Experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Mastery of advanced concepts, principles and practices of real-time Electronic Warfare (EW) simulation/stimulation, electronics/electrical systems, systems engineering and software development. Knowledge and skills must be proficient enough to enable the design, development, and integration of special hardware or the software interfaces required to support the RDT&E of aircraft mission systems. Knowledge of hardware and software principles necessary to develop real-time simulations of aircraft system and their associated sensor sub-systems including detection, countermeasure, and counter-countermeasure systems in use or in development.

Advanced knowledge of programming languages, computer system architectures and operating systems, real-time computation principles, sufficient to support development of simulation software and hardware and identify alternate approaches and solutions. Experience working with network protocols such as Mil-Std 1553, AIRINC 429, RS232/422, Ethernet, and VME. A thorough knowledge of the NAWC-AD Test and Evaluation processes with an overall understanding of aircraft and systems instrumentation, test and evaluation.