Technical SETA (Bioengineering)

Location: Bethesda, MD, US

Job ID: ATR 17331

Job Description

Job Title: Technical SETA (Bioengineering)

Location: Bethesda, MD

Eligibility: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI Clearance

Job Description:

We provide Scientific, Engineering, and Technical Assistance (SETA)

support to a government research funding organization dedicated to

investing in high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of

the most difficult challenges of national security.

The successful candidate will support the government program manager by

participating in or leading all activities in support of the Program

lifecycle in the areas of program development, source selection,

execution, closeout, and transition. The candidate will also be

responsible for coordinating meetings, assessing performer technical

progress, projecting performer outcomes, and ensuring that project

management best practices are followed by performers, independent

verification and validation (IV&V) entities, and within the government

funding organization itself.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of emerging science and technology R&D opportunities

  through literature review; outreach to the research community;

  summarizing, analyzing, and visualizing data in spreadsheet and

  graphical forms

• Generating briefing materials and agency documents required for new

  program approval

• Program management at all stages over the program lifecycle

  including BAA drafting; feedback on proposals; interactions with

  proposers and performers; meeting organization and participation;

  transition partner and industry partner engagement

• Serve as a technical liaison between Performers, Government, Test

  and Evaluation team, and Transition partners

• Lead periodic performer assessments to analyze findings in

  coordination with the test and evaluation team, assess technical and

  schedule risks; develop management strategies; communicate findings

  to program manager

• Technical evaluations and guidance on reports, briefings, and other

  performer communications

• Presentation and report preparation

• Program administration, including development of technical analyses,

  identification of technology gaps, technical risk management,

  project cost estimation, technology transfer efforts, as well as

  supporting technical reviews

• Attending and organizing program reviews/site visits/field tests

  The ideal candidate should possess technical research, development, and

  engineering experience in biomanufacturing, chemical deformulation, or

  other analytical methods of reverse engineering physical materials.

  Recent laboratory experience, especially in biomanufacturing or quality

  control/assurance of biomanufactured materials is ideal.

  Requirements:

• A master’s degree in chemical engineering, bioengineering, synthetic

  biology, or related fields with four plus (4+) years of work

  experience in one of these fields or a Doctorate degree with two

  plus (2+) years of work experience in one of these fields.

• At least two (2) years’ experience analyzing and characterizing

  molecular features from chemical or biological samples, completed

  within the last four (4) years.

• One (1) year experience supporting the management of a

  multi-disciplinary research and development (R&D) or Test and

  Evaluation (T&E) team.

• Two (2) years’ experience writing technical protocols, manuscripts,

  reports, and/or presentations for a range of consumers and

  audiences.

  Desired capabilities and characteristics:

• One (1) year of experience creating program plans, work breakdown

  structures, and milestone schedules.

• One (1) year experience in the Intelligence Community (IC) or

  associated with the Department of Defense, including experience with

  requirements, CONOPS, and transition.

• Two (2) years’ knowledge and experience in the biomanufacturing

  community to include academic, industry, and/or government.

• One (1) year experience working with or at national and/or uniformed

  service laboratories.

• One (1) year experience working or supporting a government research

  funding organization, DARPA or similar.

• One (1) year experience with modern machine learning/artificial

  intelligence models used in biology such as Alphafold, Evo, and/or

  RoseTTAFold.

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