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Posted: 05-Nov-26

Location: United States - Nationwide

Required Education: 4 Year Degree

Years of Experience: 5 - 10

Type:

Full Time

Level:

Experienced

Categories:

Geosciences

Internal Number: FV I - J

The Office of Commercial Space Transportation has a dual-purpose mission focused on ensuring safety and fostering the growth of the commercial space transportation industry. It achieves this by licensing and regulating commercial space launches and reentries, as well as the operations of launch and reentry sites. Additionally, the office develops public safety standards and requirements to keep pace with the commercial space transportation industry and emerging technologies.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

• Safety Analysis & Evaluations: Conduct technical reviews and safety evaluations for commercial space transportation activities, focusing on public safety, system/component reliability, and organizational safety procedures.
• Regulatory & Licensing Support: Review contractor work, technical documents, and applications for licenses, permits, or safety approvals. Assist in developing regulatory requirements for new and existing commercial space technologies.
• Field Inspections & Compliance: Support safety inspections of commercial launch, reentry, and site operations to ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Data & Technical Reporting: Collect and analyze operational data, perform trend analyses, conduct engineering testing, and author comprehensive technical and management reports.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Assist with the initial interface for government and industry stakeholders, as well as new commercial space transportation applicants requiring licensing.

Key Areas of Expertise Sought

Candidates should possess background experience or transferable skills in one or more of the following areas:

• Project Management & Systems Integration: Experience managing or participating in complex, multi-phase space engineering projects through certification, approval, or compliance. Background in systems engineering and integration, ensuring different technical disciplines (software, hardware, safety) align within a single project.
• Physics-Based Flight Safety & Hazard Analysis: Experience performing advanced calculations, trajectory modeling, orbital mechanics, aerodynamics, or ballistics. Background or familiarity with Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), system safety engineering (e.g., MIL-STD-882), software reliability, explosives/blast effects, structural dynamics, or toxic hazard modeling.
• Operational Monitoring & Field Inspections: Hands-on operational experience in flight testing, mission control, military flight operations, or aerospace manufacturing floors. Experience with quality assurance, field inspections, compliance monitoring, or conducting/participating in mishap, accident, and anomaly investigations.

Conditions of employment

• US Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Designated or Random Drug Testing required.
• This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
• Travel Required: 25% (Domestic)

Qualifications

IN ADDITION TO MEETING THE BASIC EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS BELOW:

To qualify for this position at the FV-I level: Candidates must have one year (52 weeks) of SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (FV-H or FG/GS-12) that is typically related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been at least equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE at the next lower level- FV-H/GS-12:

• Experience designing, developing, evaluating, or integrating various complex technical products and analyses related aerospace systems or operations.; OR
• Experience conducting trajectory, debris, or quantitative safety risk analyses for aerospace vehicles to perform/evaluate system safety or hazard analyses for aerospace safety; OR
• Experience conducting inspections, investigations/compliance enforcement, or mishaps; writing reports sufficient to substantiate findings.

To qualify for this position at the FV-J level: Candidates must have one year (52 weeks) of SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (FV-I or FG/GS-13) that is typically related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been at least equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE at the next lower level- FV-I/GS-13:

• Experience leading the design, development and/or evaluation or integration of various complex products and analyses related to aerospace systems, launch and reentry vehicles or operations.; OR
• Experience leading conducting advanced physics-based flight safety modeling, safety risk analyses, and developing or validating complex engineering simulation tools for aerospace safety; OR
• Experience leading a team on conducting inspections, investigations/compliance enforcement, or mishaps; writing reports sufficient to substantiate findings.

You should include relevant examples of the specialized experience in your work history. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered.

Answer all questions to the best of your ability. DO NOT ASSUME THAT BECAUSE YOU HOLD OR HAVE HELD THIS POSITION, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE FOUND ELIGIBLE. You may be asked to provide evidence or documentation that you have this type of experience later in the selection process. Your responses are subject to verification through job interviews, or any other information obtained during the application process. Any exaggeration of your experience or any attempt to conceal information can result in disqualification.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and/or selective placement factor(s) (SPF) may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) and/or Quality Ranking Factor (QRF) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: (1) score order; (2) category grouping; (3) alphabetical; or (4) priority grouping, and referred to the selecting official for selection consideration.

• Applicants who fail to demonstrate possession of any of the above criteria AND who do not provide the required documentation will receive no further consideration for this position.*

Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA.

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).

Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.

Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.

Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.

Basic Requirements:

Degree: 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.

OR

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 (El),

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)

2examination 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.)

Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted

under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors

indicate otherwise.

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