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About the Position:
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is participating in an alternative personnel system known as the Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project (DEMO). Among other features, the Demonstration Project replaced GS grade levels with occupational families and pay bands. The pay band DB-03 is equivalent to the former GS-12 Step 01 through GS-14 Step 10.
This position is located in the Computational & Information Sciences Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Aberdeen Proving Ground is located in Harford County, MD. APG sits on 13,000 acres with the Bush River to the east and the Chesapeake Bay to the south, offering many amenities to include recreation, sports, golf and child/day care facilities. The area offers housing, public, private and parochial school systems, and major colleges. The Baltimore, Wilmington, and Philadelphia areas offer additional cultural and recreational activities.
The Research Laboratory is recognized as a frontier for Army research programs with substantial effect on national defense issues and new technology areas. ARL supports work-life balance through various programs that offer flexible work schedules, telework opportunities, and wellness initiatives. At ARL, you are supported and encouraged to develop your career and take advantage of training available to Army and Federal employees. To learn more about the Army Research Laboratory you can check their website at http://www.arl.army.mil
Who May Apply:
Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
04/18/2017 to 04/27/2017
$79,720 - $145,629 per year
DB 03
1 vacancy in the following location:
Occasional travel - 15% Business Travel
No
Permanent
Full-time - Full Time
No
NEAC179163531938364
467222200
In this position you will serve as a Computer Engineer or Computer Scientist to serve as the government lead of the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Data Analysis and Assessment Team (DAAC).
The DAAC is part of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) and supports and provides robust interactive data analysis tools (such as Secure Remote Desktop, EnSight, ParaView & VisIt), explores and promotes advanced visualization technology, participates in cross-HPCMP collaborations with customers, contractors and technology partners, and maintains a working relationship with other government entities (in particular Department of Energy) to promote and advance data analysis and visualization applications. The candidate should have research and leadership experience in the areas of scientific visualization, data analysis and high performance computing. The candidate should also be detailed oriented and able to manage application testing and development across a wide number of computation platforms in support of the HPCMP program and ARL and possess very good customer interaction skills in order to directly assist research customers with the completion of visualization tasks. Duties will involve individual and team-focused tasks to include code compilation, debugging applications, demonstrating application usage and working with customers.
Other Requirements: Click here for expanded definitions.
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Qualified candidates must meet the Basic Requirements for the Computer Engineer (0854) or the Computer Scientist (1550). In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-02 (GS-11 or higher equivalency) grade level.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: experience in the area of scientific visualization; data analysis; code compilation and debugging; and high performance computing(code development and/or application usage). This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (DB-02/GS-11).
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency (knowledge, skills, abilities) in the following areas:
Basic Qualifications for General Engineer
Successfully completed a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR
Currently registered as a professional engineer 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.
OR
Succesfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Eligibility is limited to positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of the engineering technology program. (Documentation is required).
OR
Successfully completed 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. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum.
OR
Successfully completed a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.
Basic Qualifications for Computer Scientist
Bachelor's 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.
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you may qualify if your education meets the definition below:
At the GS-12 equivalent level, a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree directly related to the position can be substituted for the lack of specialized experience.
Foreign Education must be evaluated for U.S. Equivalency in order to be considered for this position. Please
include this information in your resume.
Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information,
please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at:
http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and
http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html
On your resume, please include college university, dates attended, degree achieved, semester hours earned, GPA, major field of study, 24 semester hours of specific courses and courses hours in your major. Failure to provide this education information on your resume may result in an ineligible rating.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority. See Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) for more information. Additional information about the program is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website.
The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstatement, etc). Please review the following links to see which documents you need to provide to prove your eligibility to apply: Applicant Merit Checklist and Proof of Eligibility.
As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.
Your resume:
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements: You MUST submit a copy of your transcript if you want to substitute your education for experience. If you claim qualifications based on education, and do not submit a transcript, your education will not be used in making a qualification determination and you may be found "not qualified." See: Transcripts and Licenses
Proof of Eligibility to Apply: Your application must include the documents which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. The “Proof of Eligibility” document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion recruitment and what document(s) are required to prove you meet the requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of at least one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive further consideration.
If you are unable to apply online or unable to upload your supporting documents follow the directions located at: Faxing Applications and Documents The Vacancy ID is 1938364. You will need the questionnaire, View Occupational Questionnaire, to complete your faxed application.
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below.
The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on Thursday, April 27, 2017 to receive consideration.
The Department of the Army provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the servicing civilian personnel unit. Your requests for reasonable accommodation will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your application. Your application package will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your application will receive no further consideration.
The documents you submit must support your responses to the online questionnaire. If your application contradicts or does not support your questionnaire responses, you will receive a rating of "not qualified" or "incomplete application" and you will not receive further consideration for this job.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/467222200. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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