Clarification from the agency

All U.S. Citizens

• You will develop state-of-the-art global numerical models of the neutral atmosphere for future high-resolution forecasting.
• You will research and provide new scientific insights into key aspects of the upper atmosphere prediction problem.
• You will research insights to develop new or improved algorithms of key physical, dynamical or chemical processes needed for prediction, implementation and testing.
• You will collaborate with the upper atmospheric research community, with model development teams.
• You will spearhead new approaches to key physical parameterizations.
• You will prepare proposals and reports as required and publish relevant results in peer-reviewed journals and reports.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.

Qualifications

You will serve as a Research Physicist within the Space Science Division, Code 763100 of NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY

This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: This position requires a demonstrated ability to research (e.g., peer-reviewed publications, research proposals or projects) problems that improve short-term predictive skill in the neutral upper atmosphere relevant to the Navy, especially via improved models, dynamics, upper atmospheric physics parameterizations or novel machine-learning or related algorithms; knowledge of and experience with the dynamical and physical processes relevant to physics-based, numerical predictive modeling of the earths lower and/or upper atmospheres and programming skills in working with a complex modern highly-scalable computer code on latest supercomputer resources.

In addition to the Selective Placement Factor and Basic Education requirements, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at the (GS-5-10) grade level or pay band (NP-02) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Knowledge of the dynamical, physical and chemical processes involved in the short-time (0-5 day) evolution of the atmosphere from the surface to the exobase at around 500 km altitude; 2) Demonstrated ability to research key unanswered scientific issues relevant to improved prediction of the upper atmosphere out to 5 days, and other scientific aspects of numerical weather prediction; 3) Skill in writing, running and debugging key components of a large holistic and rapidly evolving deep atmospheric predictive model written as massively-parallel MPI Fortran code and run on a variety of next-generation exascale multiprocessor DoD computer systems; 4) Knowledge to develop new Fortran subroutines encapsulating new algorithms describing key processes; 5) Ability to design and execute controlled numerical experiments with large physics-based atmospheric models, to analyze and interpret resulting model output, and to validate model results objectively against independent observations or reanalysis; 6) Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; 7) Ability to search for and learn about new numerical techniques from the research literature; 8) Ability to publish new results in the peer-reviewed scientific literature and to communicate findings clearly to a diverse audience of scientists, program managers and downstream customers; 9) Skill in writing successfully funded proposals for novel concepts and ideas and in reporting clearly and effectively to program sponsors and other customers; and 10) Ability to work within a large, diverse and geographically scattered research team developing Navy upper atmosphere models and to collaborate closely with scientists from different scientific disciplines.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/physics-series-1310/

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.

As vacancies occur, the Human Resources Office will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this flyer. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supporting documentation.

If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation.

If after reviewing your resume and supporting documentation, a determination is made that you inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may be found ineligible/not qualified.

Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

All qualification requirements must be met before being considered for any vacancies.