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INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST
Naval Air Systems Command · Posted 35 days ago
Hybrid Patuxent River, MD $144K – $197K Apply by Aug 17, 2026 General Engineering INTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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You will serve as the Advanced Development Digital Environments Lead Avionics Systems Engineer directly supporting PMA-299. You will serve as a INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST in the AVIONICS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DIVISION, AVIONICS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.
What You'll Do
- →You will serve as chief architect for the program's Digital Engineering Environment, researching and selecting software, plugins, and integrations for JIRA, Confluence, PLM, CATIA, Cameo, and Teamwork Cloud.
- →You will architect secure data pipelines and tool integrations to build connected Digital Threads linking operational scenario models, MBSE systems models, component design tools, and engineering analysis tools.
- →You will design data orchestration pipelines that aggregate Digital Threads into the Technical Baseline Framework, configuring dashboards for real-time visibility into design maturity and airworthiness compliance.
- →You will partner with MBSE and Systems Engineering leads to translate engineering logic and Developmental Change Management processes into configured DEE software, workflow plugins, and custom permission schemas.
- →You will direct the implementation of automated metadata tagging structures and transition rules within the DEE to govern how baseline changes are submitted, reviewed, and approved across the program.
- →You will provide the digital infrastructure to connect physical Living Lab environments to the DEE, enabling data loops that feed hardware-in-the-loop test results back into the model for continuous VV and A.
- →You will act as strategic liaison to NAVAIR DNA enterprise instance managers, aggregating advanced DEE requirements to ensure integration of required compute capabilities, plugins, and cross-domain access.
- →You will collaborate with cybersecurity and ATO leads to ensure all federated data pipelines, plugins, and access portals strictly comply with DoD zero-trust principles, data tagging, and IL5/IL6 security frameworks.
- →You will lead the design, modification, acquisition, integration, validation and final approval of avionics equipment.
- →You will explore, develop, and mature innovative engineering, mathematical and scientific concepts and electromagnetic methodologies into avionics technologies to fill known and unknown technology gaps.
- →You will explore, develop, and mature innovative engineering, mathematical and scientific concepts and electromagnetic methodologies into avionics technologies to fill known and unknown technology gaps.
- →You will determine feasibility of integrating various avionics systems with specific attention to the effects on systems due to the unique aircraft environment and operation tactics required by the operator.
Requirements
- ✓Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess 0801: A.
- ✓Degree: Engineering.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.) 1310: A.
- ✓Degree: physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics.
- ✓Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Personality Fit
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