Duties

As a Project Management Engineer within CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T), you will apply your technical expertise to deliver mission critical, cutting-edge technologies and enable CIA to drive decision advantage for policymakers' hardest challenges.

DS&T Project Management Engineers oversee the development and systems integration of technology solutions that meet the nation's most challenging requirements. As a DS&T Project Management Engineer, you will apply program management principles and your technical expertise to deliver mission relevant solutions on time, within budget, and with the highest quality imaginable. As a DS&T Project Management Engineer, you can lead the team that finds that new and innovative solution to help CIA accomplish a mission that most would think was impossible!

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• You must be physically in the United States or one of its territories when you submit your resume via MyLINK.
• You must be registered for the Selective Service, if applicable.
• You must be a U.S. citizen and at least 18 years of age (dual-national US citizens are eligible).
• You must be willing to move to the Washington, DC area.
• You must successfully complete a thorough medical and psychological exam, a polygraph interview, and a comprehensive background investigation.
• For further requirements information, please visit: https://www.cia.gov/careers/how-we-hire/requirements/

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA , including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced degree or comparable work experience is strongly desired
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Additive manufacturing/rapid prototyping
  • Advanced data recovery from damaged storage media
  • Advanced digital data recovery
  • Analog design and circuits
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Battery and power technology
  • CAD/CADD drafting and design technology
  • Central bank digital currencies
  • Data engineering
  • Data science
  • Digital signal processing design and programming
  • Embedded systems
  • Energy storage technologies
  • Extended reality
  • Fabrication skills in a prototype environment
  • Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA)
  • Fiber optics and cable communications
  • Graphic design and visual communication
  • High performance computing
  • Human DNA technology or forensics
  • Industrial design and fabrication
  • Machine learning
  • Network engineering
  • Network security
  • Power systems
  • Programming
  • Project/program management
  • Quantum computing
  • Quantum sensors
  • RF communications
  • RF waveform design
  • Satellite communications
  • Signal processing and analysis
  • Software reverse engineering
  • Systems architecting
  • Systems engineering
  • Prototype design and fabrication
  • Audio design and circuits
  • Voice/data communications (satellite, RF, wireless and telecommunications networks)
• Interest in applying technology to solve challenging problems
• Foreign language capability
• Strong verbal presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, concise text

Education

• A bachelor's degree in one of the following fields or related studies (or comparable work experience):
  • Aerospace engineering
  • Application development
  • Bioengineering/biomedical engineering
  • Biological sciences
  • Biotechnology and microbiology
  • Chemical engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Computer engineering
  • Computer science
  • Electrical engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Nuclear engineering
  • Physical sciences
  • Physics
  • Remote sensing/GIS
  • Space systems operations
  • Systems engineering
  • Telecommunications
• At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale