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LEAD INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPUTER ENGINEER/ELECTRONICS ENGINEER/COMPUTER SCIENTIST
Naval Air Systems Command · Posted 13 days ago
Hybrid Patuxent River, MD $144K – $197K Apply by Sep 4, 2026 Computer Engineering INTJINTP Engineering
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You will serve as a LEAD ENGINEER/COMPUTER SCIENTIST (PMA-264 Software Support Activity Lead) in the MISSION SYSTEMS GROUP and SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. The incumbent leads the PMA-264 acoustic software development in realizing the Aircraft Division and the NAVAIR Strategic Plan. The position supports the acoustic Program Related Engineering (PRE) software requirement on the P-8A. The duty location of this position is Patuxent River, MD..
What You'll Do
- →You will ensure that the organization’s strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team’s strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services for software engineering.
- →You will communicate to the team the software engineering assignments, projects, problems to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and deadlines and time frames for completion.
- →You will recognize the need for and be able to adapt and implement algorithms and advanced system and software technology into practical Fleet software.
- →You will provide the focal point for the advanced software design concepts for a major weapon system or a common design concept area across several weapon systems and interoperability programs.
- →You will identify barriers to resolution of issues, establish gates and milestones necessary to resolve the issues prior to it impacting a program level milestone, and prioritize the importance and urgency of each issue.
- →You will represent the team in dealings with the leadership for the purpose of obtaining resources and securing needed information or decisions from the leadership on major work problems and issues that arise.
- →You will research, learn and apply a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods to identify, assess, analyze and improve team effectiveness, efficiency and work products.
Requirements
- ✓For the 0854/0855 Series: Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree.
- ✓Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
- ✓OR 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.
- ✓Office of Personnel Management.
- ✓For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.
- ✓OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above).
- ✓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 the 1550 series: Bachelor's degree in computer science.
- ✓OR A bachelor's degree or higher 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
Job ID: 338061df-9341-403d-adec-b31d52a2d189
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