Electronics Engineer

Summary

The position(s) covered by this vacancy announcement is in the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). For more information please see: AcqDemo

This position is part of the Defense Microelectronics Activity, Defense Microelectronics Activity. The incumbent serves as a senior level Customer Application Engineer supporting DoD's access to advanced commercial microelectronics.

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Duties

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As a Electronics Engineer at the NH-0855-3 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Primary Technical Interface: Serving as the senior Customer Application Engineer (CAE) and primary point of contact representing the organization to DoW agencies, program offices, and prime defense contractors to enable access to advanced commercial microelectronics.
• End-to-End Semiconductor Life Cycle Advisory: Applying authoritative engineering expertise across ASIC design, simulation, net-list generation, physical layout, mask generation, wafer fabrication, packaging, aggregation, and testing to advise customers and resolve technical anomalies.
• Design Enablement & IP Management: Leading customer design enablement workflows, vetting technical sponsorship requests, managing intellectual property (IP) submissions, and delivering design-specific engineering support.
• Contract & RFQ Negotiation: Negotiating semiconductor access contracts, Statements of Work (SOW), and Requests for Quotation (RFQs) directly with commercial foundries, fabrication partners, and aggregators.
• Cross-Functional Technical Integration: Leading Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) and recurring synchronization sessions with foundries, program offices, and industry partners to proactively identify and resolve technical, manufacturing, and programmatic issues.
• Business, Financial & Export Control Execution: Managing customer quotations, payment procedures, export control details, and financial reconciliation while resolving complex business and administrative challenges.
• Strategic Industry & Supply Chain Analysis: Tracking global and domestic microelectronics market trends, manufacturing capabilities, supply chain vulnerabilities, and national technology strategies to maintain situational awareness across government and industry coalitions.
• The applicant will support the following as secondary assignments: IP & Design Enablement: Managing IP, MPW schedules, and customer technical design requirements; Trusted Audits: Auditing facilities for Trusted IC accreditation across design, foundry, and test; Acquisition & Risk: Performing COR contract duties and managing MICP/RMIC internal risk controls; Operations & Outreach: Maintaining SharePoint assets, improving processes, and representing the Activity.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Selective Service requirements apply. Please visit for more information
• Suitable for Federal employment determined by required background investigation
• Must obtain/maintain Secret security clearance
• Drug Testing Designated position: Yes
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Financial Disclosure: Not Required
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Required to work DMEA Core Hours of 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Pacific Standard Time on duty days regardless of geographic location of the position.

Qualifications

You may qualify at the NH-03 if you fulfill the following qualifications:

A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-02 or GS-11 equivalent, or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Examples of creditable specialized experience include:

1. Managing key microelectronics technical and commercial accounts, including overseeing program scope, negotiating agreements, and guiding complex product development lifecycles from initial concept through final production and delivery.
2. Providing microelectronics technical consultation to external stakeholders, translating complex system requirements, and aligning custom designs with organizational manufacturing and technical capabilities.
3. Driving microelectronics strategic business development and partnership initiatives, aligning commercial technology solutions with organizational requirements.
4. Designing, simulating, and verifying complex hardware components, microelectronics, or integrated systems utilizing standard industry development workflows and computer-aided design tools.
5. Field Applications / Customer Application Engineer (FAE/CAE): Providing technical consultation, translating electronics requirements, and mapping designs to foundry manufacturing capabilities.,

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0855, series as listed below:

A. Degree: Engineering.To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; 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.

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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:

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. Related curriculum Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. 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: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

GRADUATE EDUCATION : One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:

**NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.

Additional information

Other Notes:

• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• The overall salary range listed above is provided for informational purposes as it represents the full range that is applicable to current employees in this occupation/grade; however, a selectee's initial pay is always set below the maximum rate of the range.
• Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Agency's interest.
• Relocation and/or Recruitment incentive may be authorized if determined by the Hiring Manager to be in the best interest of the Agency.
• Telework is available in accordance with DOD Policy basis. Remote work is not authorized.

ACQUISITION POSITION: This position requires a Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Engineering and Technical Management Practitioner level certification. Certification prior to hiring is not essential but must be accomplished within 60 months after entry into this position. For information regarding the DAWIA Back to Basics please visit: Back to Basics - Helpful Resources (dau.edu)

• DAWIA (Back to Basics) Certification: NON-CAP: Position requires DoD Acquisition Engineering and Technical Management Practitioner certification within required timeframes. Selectee must also achieve 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every 2-years. Click here for more details and Resources.

Re-employed Annuitant: If you have retired from civilian federal service and you are interested in employment as a re-employed annuitant, information can be found at: Reemployed Annuitants | DCPAS (osd.mil)

Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see Who Needs to Register | Selective Service System : Selective Service System (sss.gov))

This position is subject to an initial drug screening, and random testing thereafter. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date). The selectee's inability successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment.

You may be required to sign a "Drug Test Statement of Understanding" if you are selected for this position.

All applicants must meet qualifications and eligibility criteria by the closing date of the announcement.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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