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!
Who You’ll Work With
At the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), we recognize our Nation’s strength comes from the diversity of its people. People from a broad range of backgrounds and viewpoints work at CIA, and our diverse teams are the reason we can keep our country safe.
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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.
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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