SETA/Research Engineer

Location: Bethesda, MD

Eligibility: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI w/ CI Polygraph

clearance

Job Description:

We are seeking a Scientific, Engineering, and Technical Assistance

(SETA) Support Specialist to join our team in support of a government

research organization dedicated to investing in high-risk, high-payoff

research programs to tackle some of the most difficult challenges of

national security.

The successful candidate will support the government program managers in

the execution of the lifecycle of various research programs to include

development of source selection materials, execution assistance,

closeout, and transition. The SETA should be competent in Research and

Development (R&D) programmatic reviews and procedures. The candidate

will also be responsible for ensuring that project management best

practices are followed by the individual programs to include performers,

independent verification and validation (IV&V) entities, and within the

government research organization itself.

The research programs you would support focus on developing advanced

sensor and transmission technologies, innovative collection techniques

that more precisely target desired information, and methods for

collecting information from previously inaccessible sources. Additional

efforts explore new approaches for integrating information from multiple

sources to improve the quality, reliability, and operational utility of

collected data.

Responsibilities

- Support the program managers in coordination, monitoring,

communication, and integration of all technical aspects of the

Program lifecycle that includes:

- Coordinate across government, academic, and industry research

teams.

- Review and assess technical deliverables, milestones, and

evaluation results.

- Track risks, dependencies, and integration issues across

performers.

- Prepare reports, technical summaries, and briefings for senior

leadership.

- Serve as a liaison between performers, Test & Evaluation

contributors, government and transition partners;

- Provide support for program related requirements for systems

integration, design, development, modeling and simulation, data

analytics and architecture design;

- Stay current on advances in technologies relevant to the research

programs and perform technical studies as requested on topics of

interest to the program managers.

- Provide technical support and expertise on new concepts relevant to

the program managers.

- Support the evaluation of Seedling concepts

Qualifications

Required:

- Bachelors' degree in applied physics, electrical engineering,

systems engineering, computer science, or a related technical field,

with six plus (6+) years of work experience in one of these fields,

or Masters' degree with two plus (2+) years of work experience.

- Four (4) years of experience or equivalent education involving

telecommunications systems, radio frequency (RF) sensing, signal

processing, biometric sensing modalities, and/or advanced sensor

system design and evaluation.

- Two (2) years of experience or equivalent education using test and

measurement equipment relevant to advanced sensing technologies,

such as spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, RF test platforms,

wireless communications testbeds, biometric sensor test systems, or

commercial off-the-shelf sensing devices.

- One (1) year of experience managing a multi-disciplinary research

and development R&D or Test and Evaluation (T&E) teams.

- Two (2) years of experience creating program plans, work break down

structures, and milestone schedules for R&D efforts.

Desired:

- Masters' degree or PhD in applied physics, electrical engineering,

systems engineering, computer science, or related fields, with four

plus (4+) years of work experience.

- Four (4) years of experience with programming languages or tools

commonly used in sensing, data analysis, or experimental automation,

such as LabVIEW, Python, MATLAB, C/C++, or embedded systems

software.

- Two (2) years of experience with machine learning, pattern

recognition, biometrics analytics, RF signal classification, or

other AI/ML methods relevant to sensing applications.

- Two (2) years of experience in the Intelligence Community (IC),

including experience with requirements, CONOPS, and transition.

- Awareness of supply chain, security, and integration considerations

for commercial off-the-shelf sensing technologies,

telecommunications hardware, and RF components.

- Four (4) years of experience managing a multi-disciplinary research

and development (R&D) or Test and Evaluation (T&E) team.

- One (1) year of experience as a Project Manager or Deputy Project

Manager.