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INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST
Naval Air Systems Command · Posted 2 days ago
Hybrid China Lake, CA $197K – $210K Apply by Jul 6, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ EngineeringOperations
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You will serve as the Distinguished Engineer or Scientist for Ranges, Targets Operations, Instrumentation and Labs (RTOIL) Technology Innovation in the Strategy & Technology Office of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD).
What You'll Do
- →You will identify future RTOIL requirements beyond the current budget cycle and initiates technical exchanges between Subject Matter Experts and Key test, technology, industry, academia, and customer counterparts.
- →You will develop and maintain a RTOIL Technology Roadmap in support of program test and evaluation and Fleet training requirements for the joint service and foreign partners.
- →You will provide an efficient and secure operational environment at NAWCWD test ranges in support of open air and integrated virtual and constructive testing.
- →You will serve as a leading technical and operational expert on naval air and sea platforms and weapon systems within NAWCWD and across DoN and DoW.
- →You will create and maintain state-of-the-art research and development programs related to scientific, engineering, and or other technology fields.
- →You will determine the long-and short-term technical direction or approach, planning and scheduling work, monitoring budget expenditures, reporting results, progress, and overall accomplishments of the work.
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.
- ✓For 1515-Operations Research Series: A degree in operation mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics or statistics.
- ✓At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.
- ✓For 1520-Mathematics Series: A degree in mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics or A combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics), as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
- ✓For 1550-Computer Science Series: A degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
- ✓At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.
- ✓All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.
Personality Fit
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