The Office of Crash Avoidance Standards develops safety standards to reduce vehicle crashes. Duties involve managing technical engineering programs to analyze safety issues, enhance vehicle performance, and promulgate Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, regulations, and guidelines. Additionally, the Office identifies, recommends, and conducts necessary research, development, and testing to support creating or modifying these standards.
As a General Engineer, you will: Serve as an engineer and technical consultant within the Office of Crash Avoidance Standards. Develop position papers (addressing issues and available engineering options) for use in supporting and recommending agency actions regarding research and development, and new regulatory issues.
Identify, analyze, and quantify safety problems across vehicle dynamics, tire performance, heavy vehicle systems, stability control systems, crash avoidance and mitigation systems, and adaptive equipment. Prepare rulemaking support documentation, including drafting legal notices, preambles, rules, regulatory analyses, and impact statements for agency regulatory changes.
Conduct technical reviews of petitions and analyze public and industry comments regarding proposed solutions to safety and present to the associate administrator, executive director, legal counsel, and administrator The ideal candidate for this position is self-motivated, demonstrated knowledge and expertise in automotive space, and possesses sound engineering judgement. The candidate should have strong analytical, technical writing, and communication skills.
The candidate should be capable of managing projects and work cooperatively with others within NHTSA and with external organizations to accomplish the agency's goal of improved safety.
MANDATORY EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: A.
DEGREE: ENGINEERING --To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR B. COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE -- College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.
The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.
Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive). All applicants must meet the education requirements under A or B to qualify for applying to an engineering position. Transcripts are required for this position.
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This position is with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation.
The posted pay range is $102415 – $158322/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-10-12.
This is a Full Time position.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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