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SUPERVISORY DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER
Naval Sea Systems Command · Posted 61 days ago
Hybrid Port Hueneme, CA $198K – $210K Apply by Jul 30, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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You will serve as Supervisory Distinguished Engineer as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division.
What You'll Do
- →You will direct and shape the Division's multi-million-dollar Scientific and Technology and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funding portfolio.
- →You will formulate the command's Research and Development strategy, ensuring that all technology incubation, rapid prototyping, and experimentation efforts directly address surface warfare capability gaps and combat system engineering improvements.
- →You will act as the primary catalyst and "broker" for transitioning applied research from early-stage conceptual development through the "valley of death" into formal In-Service Engineering (ISEA) and acquisition plans.
- →You will engage in technical collaboration and research strategy formulation with leading academic institutions, defense laboratories (ONR, DARPA, NRL) and commercial industry partners.
- →You will evaluate external research trends to posture the Division for future technological insertions.
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.) An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable.
Personality Fit
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