Agency-wide Requirements
All applicants must be:
- U.S. citizens (dual U.S. citizens also eligible)
- At least 18 years of age
- Willing to move to the Washington, DC area
- Able to complete security and medical evaluations
- Registered for the Selective Service
About the Job
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!
What You’ll Get
Our benefits support every aspect of a working professional’s life, including health and wellness, time off, family, finances, and continuing education. Our programs include highly sought-after government health benefits, flexible schedules, sick leave, and childcare. In some cases, we also offer sign-on incentives and cover moving expenses if you relocate.
As a CIA employee, you’ll also get the satisfaction of knowing your work is part of something bigger than yourself. Our work is driven by one mission: to keep our Nation safe. Every day is an opportunity to enhance U.S. national security.
Learn more about working at CIA.
Minimum Qualifications
- 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
- 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