Senior Research Engineer
Training, Simulation and Performance Improvement Division

GS-35F-0533L

QUALIFICATIONS:  A Senior Research Engineer has experience managing projects, preparing proposals, and supporting business development activities. A Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline with seven or more years of experience with information technology related projects in the training, modeling and simulation, and performance improvement domain areas is required. An advanced degree in one of these technical fields is encouraged.

RESPONSIBILITIES:  Senior Research Engineers develop and lead projects, maintain working relationships with clients, assume responsibility for the technical effort and growth of others, and develop creative, innovative solutions to problems through the application of advanced theory, concepts and practices. They are often responsible for providing technical leadership in hardware or software development efforts on projects as well as defining, designing, building/coding, testing and documenting specific hardware components or software applications. Representative functions include:

  • Apply standard engineering practices to the development of information technology systems in support of training, simulation and modeling, and performance improvement applications.
  • Plan, design, coordinate, and control the progress of project work to meet client objectives; prepare and present research reports to clients; supervise others as project manager, assuming full responsibility for technical, financial, and project completion goals.
  • Assume responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative imaginative thinking is required.
  • Participate in technical evaluation of assigned personnel and, if appropriate, in the evaluation and identification of junior staff members' developmental needs; display working knowledge of related technical disciplines; and serve as mentor to junior technical staff.
  • Lead proposal efforts and new promotional work.
  • Maintain familiarity with progress and problems in technical areas in which working.
  • Provide recommendations on ways to improve planning, program development, project, and promotional efforts, and ways to contribute to those activities.
  • Follow up on research proposals and negotiate with clients in extending current project work or in developing new work arising out of the current project.

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