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RADIO FREQUENCY PROGRAM ENGINEER
STRATEGIC SYSTEMS PROGRAMS (SSP) · Posted 57 days ago
Hybrid Washington Navy Yard, DC $102K – $158K Apply by Jul 30, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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What You'll Do
- →You will serve as a recognized subject matter expert in RF Engineering, representing senior leadership in high-level technical matters.
- →You will support development activities for the W93/MK Arming, Fuzing, and Firing Assembly (AF and F).
- →You will be responsible for leading the W93/MK7 RF Integrated Product Team (IPT) in the development and qualification of the Radio Frequency Subsystem (RFSS).
- →You will be responsible for everything from requirement and specification creation, design and development, production support, assembly and integration support, and verification and qualification.
- →You will be responsible for integration activities of the RFSS into the Reentry Body system and will coordinate across the Production IPTs and Test IPTs.
- →You will facilitate technical exchange meetings between internal program leads and external agencies such as, the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, and Lockheed Martin.
- →You will act on behalf of Reentry Systems Branch in various engagements with leadership and the engineering community.
- →You will coordinate with the staff of other sections and units within the Reentry Systems Branch to ensure delivery of excellence across the technical and programmatic spectrum.
- →You will take the initiative to independently highlight and resolve issues affecting equities.
- →You will direct and participate in review of progress and/or issues with Reentry Branch staff members and other stakeholders and communicate the status of progress regularly with Unit, Section, and Branch leadership.
- →You will be responsible for the program management of the RF IPT activities, which includes the budgeting and execution of funding across various work performers.
Requirements
- ✓Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess: For Engineering (08XX): 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.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.
- ✓For Physics (1310): 1.
- ✓Degree: physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics.
Personality Fit
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