Electronics Engineer (Validation Group)

This position is part of the Defense Microelectronics Activity.

This is an OPEN CONTINOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until June 16, 2025. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be December 16, 2024. Applications will continue to be reviewed and referred at regular intervals through the closing date or until all vacancies are filled.

Qualifications:

To qualify for an Electronics Engineer (Validation Group), your resume and supporting documentation must support:

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 the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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) 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.

Responsibilities:

As a Electronics Engineer (Validation Group) at the NH-0855-2 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Serves as a performer in one or more capabilities in the Validation Group; Product Modification (Decapsulation, Delayering), Microscopy & Imaging (Scanning Electron Microscopes, Atomic Force Microscopy), Analysis (Failure Analysis, Device Analysis, Anti-Counterfeiting), and/or Reverse Engineering (Assembly Diagrams, Parts Research, Schematic Generation, Firmware Extraction/Programming).
• Accomplishes the reverse engineering of microcircuit assemblies and integrated circuits and regenerates or verifies the original documentation package(s).
• Conducts physical analysis of Integrated Circuits and Printed Circuit Boards and completes component identification on probe stations using semiconductor parametric analyzers to determine sheet resistances and transistor characteristics.
• Identifies the latest technology that can provide the most effective microcircuit replacement.
• Conducts tests of prototypes for design verification consistent with form, fit and function replacement requirements.
• Supports validation of prototypes. Knowledgeable on fundamentals of PCB Design and Altium Design software.

Salary : $43,757