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Technical Developer

Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 10/9/2024 CLOSED ON 2/4/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Developer position at Central Intelligence Agency?

Technology Development Engineers collaborate with the Intelligence Community and partners to develop cutting-edge, custom-engineered solutions advancing CIA collection initiatives.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications
  • Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation
Desired Qualifications
  • Demonstrated proficiency in:
    • Broad technical understanding of the electrical and/or computer engineering fields
    • Ability to learn new skills in pace with technological advances
    • Ability to adapt to fast paced, dynamic requirement environments
    • Interpersonal, organizational, and planning skills
    • Verbal and written communication skills
    • Creative analytic and problem-solving abilities
    • Strong team and independent work ethic
    • Systems engineering experience
    • Ability to describe and display hands-on design and fabrication experience
  • Advanced degree, professional certification, or comparable experience in one or more of the following disciplines is strongly desired:
    • Electrical engineering
    • Computer engineering
  • Knowledge or experience in the following functional disciplines:
    • Systems engineering
    • Prototype electronics design, fabrication, repair and testing
    • Soldering (reflow, hand-soldering, rework)
    • Radio frequency design, modeling, and measurement
    • Microelectronics
    • Circuit schematic design, layout, testing, troubleshooting, review, capture, and analysis
  • Familiarity with the following engineering tools and software:
    • Logic and spectrum analyzers
    • Osciloscopes
    • Altium printed circuit board design, layout, or simulation
    • GITHub
    • Embedded firmware
    • Microcontroller (Programming, MSP430, PIC, or ARM)
    • Python
    • Matlab
    • Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)

Responsibilities:

As a Technology Development Engineer within CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T), you will apply your engineering or scientific expertise as an integral member of a team of innovative, technical-expert problem solvers, who deliver new solutions in support of CIA's mission to collect foreign intelligence.

DS&T Technology Development Engineers collaborate across the Intelligence Community and with partners for in-house development-to-deployment programs delivering integrated solutions for the advancement of foreign intelligence collection.

Salary : $68,405

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