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Position Summary
Want to be a part of an elite team where your work has a global impact by researching and developing revolutionary ideas that will provide our nation an overwhelming advantage? We have an opportunity for you!
As a Technology Acceleration Lead at NSA, the creativity of you and your team is essential to explore and create effective solutions for internal and Agency-supported customers around the world. Your efforts will drive global impacts that may include: saving lives of U.S. and ally soldiers; providing U.S. policy and decision makers with critical, timely intelligence; ensuring the continued safety of U.S. citizens and residents by thwarting foreign adversaries; and defending vital networks.
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The National Security Agency (NSA) is part of the DoD Intelligence Community Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). All positions in the NSA are in the Excepted Services under 10 United States Codes (USC) 1601 appointment authority.
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Pay, Benefits, & Work Schedule
Salary offers are based on candidates' education level and years of experience relevant to the position and also take into account information provided by the hiring manager/organization regarding the work level for the position.
Salary ranges vary by location and work level. This position is hiring for Maryland.
Salary Range: $89,931 - $183,500 (Full Performance, Senior, Expert).
Advancement:
Cross-organizational mentoring is highly encouraged and readily available for all employees. Training is available through: continuing education classes provided by our internal school, vendor training, and a variety of tuition assistance programs. You can also take advantage of work assignment or travel opportunities, both stateside and abroad, or direct engagements with other Intelligence Community agencies.
Work/Life Balance:
As Federal employees, our employees enjoy job security, relocation assistance, flexible work schedules, generous leave programs, free onsite fitness centers at many locations, available paid personal fitness time within your normal work schedule, flexible health and life insurance, Federal retirement pension, matching employee retirement contributions to the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for up to 5% of salary, and competitive pay.
The typical work schedule is Monday - Friday, with basic 8hr/day work requirements between 0600 to 1800 hrs (flexible).
Skills
Required Skills:
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills, and possess the following knowledge and experience:
- 5+ years of experience in roles developing and optimizing technical plans for activities with high uncertainty;
- Lead the successful planning of a high-risk technology or product development effort;
- Account for contingency plans and risk mitigation activities in schedules.
Responsibilities
Would you like to work for the most esteemed, reputable, and established in-house research organization in the U.S. Intelligence Community? If so, let's talk!
NSA employs scientists with world-class skills in fields such as mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, and cybersecurity. We collaborate with leading companies, universities, and national laboratories to leverage work in overlapping disciplines, advance core capabilities, and seek out and develop revolutionary ideas that will provide our nation with an overwhelming advantage over our adversaries.
At the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS), you will have incredible opportunities with high visibility to work on investigating and designing large-scale high performance computing systems, focusing on computer architectures, processing/memory subsystems, and transforming computing beyond Moore's Law. You will be a part of a multi-disciplinary team of physicists, engineers, computer scientists, and systems architects that challenge you to make impacts that others have yet to attain.
We're looking for talented individuals that have a desire to accelerate the transition of research ideas into technology capabilities. This includes analyzing research and development plans and associated schedules to identify opportunities to increase the pace of the work and ensure that all of the challenges in advancing new ideas are appropriately addressed. Experience working on complex programs, especially aerospace, High Performance Computing (HPC), or defense programs is a plus.
As a TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATION LEAD, and member of the LPS Program Management team, you will:
- Establish detailed objectives for research and development activities with others on the LPS Program Management team;
- Develop strategies to achieve those objectives, ensuring the technical goals will be well supported by the overall programmatic strategies;
- Iteratively optimize plans and evolve the strategies with which those plans are aligned;
- Accelerate the pace of technical progress through optimizing and proactively managing the uncertainties inherent to the research;
- Ensure goals, strategies and implemented plans enable a path to full realization of the technologies.
