Computer Scientist

National Telecommunications and Information Administration • Boulder, CO

11d

About The Position

This vacancy is for a Computer Scientist in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration within the Department of Commerce. This position is also advertised under NTIA-ITS-ST-26-13077104, which is open to Merit Promotion eligible applicants. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Computer Scientist ZP-1550-4, FPL 4 positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location or local commuting area with the same qualifications and specialized experience.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• Must successfully pass a background investigation. This may include a credit check, a review of financial issues, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use of possession of drugs.
• A 3-year probationary period may be required.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete an Optional Form 306, Declaration for Federal Employment, and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application.
• All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.
• All academic and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.
• One full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 or ZP-3 in the Federal service.
• Software development experience to create and improve software solutions.
• Creating scientific software programs (for example, metrics, data intensive workloads, algorithms, modeling, data mining, forecasting, optimization, simulations, statistical analysis, numerical analysis, numerical methods, machine learning (ML), artificial Intelligence (AI), signal processing, image/audio/video processing).
• Leading teams or projects.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Implements complex mathematical telecom and propagation modeling algorithms; and develop, validate, verify, test, and document software solutions.
• Leads team-based projects that include software development, algorithm implementations, numerical analysis and research, and computer science methods and techniques.
• Researches problems arising from the use of digital computers.
• Perform research and analysis to verify, validate, debug, troubleshoot, and test software implementations.
• Gives oral presentations to explain project development efforts.
• Reports project results to both technical and non-technical audiences using tact and persuasion, responding appropriately to questions.
• Generates written reports to explain research developments of digital computer systems.
• Evaluate results and prepare report findings of new methods and techniques to store, manipulate, transform or present information by means of digital computer systems.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.
• Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level