Summary
This position is situated within the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), specifically under the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) in the Technical Engineering Services Directorate (EZ). The role is based at either Hanscom AFB, MA, or Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, within a directorate that delivers engineering leadership, integration, and technical direction across the AFLCMC and partner organizations. Duty location will be decided after selection.
Duties
The Technical Advisor serves as a nationally and internationally recognized USAF authority responsible for steering advanced cybersecurity technologies, providing high-level strategic counsel, leading scientific evaluations, and engineering risk-mitigated technical solutions for complex weapon systems and command and control architectures. In this capacity, the advisor operates as the Air Force's foremost technical authority on advanced cybersecurity technologies and their application to weapon systems, networks, and software-defined C4I architectures. The role requires maintaining state-of-the-art expertise in modern enterprise architecture engineering practices, agile software methodologies, open data architectures, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics. To shape the future of the field and influence the broader national security landscape, the expert actively produces and presents technical papers and lectures at national and international forums. As a trusted consultant, the advisor delivers critical engineering and computer science guidance to senior leadership across the military and federal government, including the AFLCMC/EN-EZ Director, program directors, HQ AFMC, HQ USAF, and Portfolio Acquisition Executives. This advisory footprint extends externally to industry, academia, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), and international allies. The advisor regularly represents USAF interests in executive-level technical coalitions, ensuring that complex policies, processes, and engineering procedures align with defense objectives and state-of-the-art standards. Operating as a scientific catalyst, the advisor leads the Air Force in identifying and exploiting dual-use technologies to enhance C4I system capabilities. This involves initiating and recommending novel scientific studies, research programs, and technical reviews for both Air Force and Space Force projects. The advisor evaluates high-level engineering approaches and possesses the authority to recommend pivotal changes to program directions, statements of objectives, and operational capability requirements documents to maintain technological superiority. The advisor is responsible for driving creative technological solutions into operational weapon systems while aggressively mitigating advanced adversarial cyber threats. By developing comprehensive risk-reduction strategies, the advisor ensures seamless C4I integration, interoperability, and secure netcentric operations. Crucially, the role focuses on proactively countering the exponential security risks introduced by rapid advancements in machine learning, computing power, and modern dual-use technologies across a program's entire lifecycle.
Education
EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: This position has the following education requirement: General Engineering (0801) series requires: a) A degree in professional engineering orb) A combination of education and experience, at least 60 hours of college-level education, in the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional engineers combined with specialized training and/or technical experience (as demonstrated by registration as a professional engineer or successful completion of the Engineer-in-Training examination). For more information: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/. Operations Research (1550) series requires: A degree: in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/computer-science-series-1550/
How you will be evaluated
Applications will be evaluated against the qualifications requirements. Candidates will be evaluated for this position by a screening panel composed of senior executives and/or general officers selected for organizational and/or functional backgrounds relevant to this position. The panel will reach consensus on the applications demonstrating a high degree of the technical competencies to select for interviews. Post interview, the panel will make a recommendation of those Best Qualified candidates to refer to the selecting official, in priority order. Final selection is contingent on approval by the Under Secretary of the Air Force. REMINDER: Before uploading your required PDF documents (Resume), please ensure they DO NOT EXCEED the noted 2 page limits.