This position is being filled under the memorandum from the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)) Expansion of Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense dated October 15 2021.
As a Electronics Engineer at the NHsome of your typical work assignments may include:
- Serves as key member in the Modeling and Simulation team in support of the DMEA Foundry team.
- Responsible for the design and optimization of TCAD device simulations to accurately represent next generation SiC and/or Si power device behavior and performance.
- Responsible for executing device testing and characterization to ensure device operation. Performs measurements with semiconductor device parameter analyzers and semi-automated wafer probe systems LCR meters oscilloscopes etc.
- Measures semiconductor devices at wafer-level or package-level to verify electrical behavior and extract key performance parameters.
- Assists the lead Process Control Monitoring (PCM) engineer to verify PCM test structure electrical behavior.
- Assists in the design of PCM test structures to validate process/device performance and monitor process stability using Cadence Virtuoso for design/layout activities.
- Identifies device requirements and key system performance parameters to analyze results from electrical/reliability testing and provides feedback to the Foundry team.
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
- Recruitment/Relocation/Retention Incentive may be authorized at managements discretion.
Qualifications
To qualify for an Electronics Engineer NHposition your resume and supporting documentation must support:
A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-02 (GS-11 equivalent) grade level in the Federal service:
- Foundational experience in a relevant scientific or engineering field such as solid-state physics materials science or electrical engineering.
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 bachelors 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.
ORB. 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 Boards 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 bachelors 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 bachelors 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.
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: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.
Additional information
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.