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DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER/SCIENTIST for TEST AND EVALUATION of SCALABLE, ADVANCED HYPERSONICS
Naval Sea Systems Command · Posted 2 days ago
Hybrid Crane, IN $170K – $210K Apply by Jul 23, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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You will serve as Distinguished Scientist/Engineer for Test and Evaluation of Scalable, Advanced Hypersonics and shall be nationally recognized as a subject matter expert (SME) in experimentation and test and evaluation of Hypersonic weapon systems and associated subsystems and technologies of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER.
What You'll Do
- →You will provide national technical leadership for the test and evaluation and experimentation of Hypersonic weapons and associated systems and technologies.
- →You will provide senior technical consultation, recommendations, and expert advice to the Department of Navy (DON) and the Department of War (DOW) in Hypersonic Missile Test and Evaluation and experimentation.
- →You will partners with other national leaders in various technology areas applicable to implementing that technology into the Hypersonic Missile and/or weapon system.
- →You will participate and oversee the development experimentation and test and evaluation plans and methods in order to successfully accomplish the DoW and DON strategies for development of Hypersonic weapon systems.
- →You will serve as SME to system researchers and designers for Weapon Systems that will integrate Hypersonic Missiles and Systems into a system of systems.
- →You will lead the development of test and evaluation and experimentation strategies across the DON and DoW emphasizing affordability, scalability, and speed.
Requirements
- ✓Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: For 0801 Professional Engineering Series: A.
- ✓Degree: Engineering.
- ✓Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university.
- ✓Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. -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: (I) Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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.
- ✓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 1310-Physics Series: a.
- ✓A degree in physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics; OR b.
- ✓For 1515-Operations Research Series: a.
- ✓A degree in operation research; OR b.
- ✓A Bachelor degree or higher with at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics.
- ✓At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.
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