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This vacancy is for an Electronics Engineer in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration within the Department of Commerce.Qualifications:Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Occupational-Series
Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.
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.
This position is being filled under the Department Of Commerce (DOC) Alternative Personnel System (CAPS). Under CAPS, positions are classified by career path and pay band.
The ZP-3 is equivalent to the GS-11/12 grade levels.
The ZP-4 is equivalent to the GS-13/14 grade levels.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS - All applicants must meet the basic requirements listed below:
A. Degree in 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), 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.)

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All applicants must possess specialized experience and/or education outlined for each band level identified below:
To qualify at the ZP-3 or GS-11/12 level:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZP-2 (or GS-9) in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as:
(1) Applying mathematical, statistical, stochastic, simulation, or digital signal processing (DSP) methods to analyze measured signals, system behavior, or data from sensing, communication, electromagnetic signals, or measurement systems; AND
(2) Evaluating the performance of signals, systems, algorithms, or measurement processes using analytical, statistical, computational, or numerical methods; AND
(3) Preparing written technical reports or publications and presenting technical results and analyses to internal or external stakeholders; AND
(4) Executing research approaches that address signal-processing, measurement, communication, spectrum, propagation, or system-performance challenges.
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SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
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COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE that together meets 100% of the required qualifications for this position.
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To qualify at the ZP-4 or GS-13/14 level:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZP-3 (or GS-12) equivalent pay band) in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as:
(1) Planning, leading, and conducting laboratory, field, or operational measurement activities involving signal-processing, communication, sensing, electromagnetic signals, or measurement systems; AND
(2) Analyzing empirical measurement data and integrating those data with analytical methods, statistical analyses, simulations, or numerical models to develop, validate, or improve models of electromagnetic signals, spectrum utilization, propagation phenomena, or system performance; AND
(3) Authoring scientific and technical reports or publications, and presenting complex technical results and analyses to internal and external audiences; AND
(4) Formulating, planning, and leading research activities that address signal-processing, measurement, communication, spectrum, propagation, or system-performance challenges.; AND
(5) Providing technical leadership, expert consultation, or technical recommendations to inform program, research, or spectrum management challenges.
NOTE: Education can not be substituted for experience at the ZP-4 grade level.Education:There is a positive education requirement for this position.
See Qualifications Above.
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Special Instructions for Foreign Education: Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree. You MUST provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing along with your application. Failure to provide such documentation when requested will result in lost consideration.Employment Type: OTHER