The Air Force Civilian Service (AFCS) is looking for a Electronics Technician (NJ-0856-04) to work at Air Force Materiel Command, (AFMC) in the Air Force Sustainment Center location at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. This federal job offers a rewarding and exciting career with benefits.
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Recruitment, Relocation, Retention and Student Loan Incentives may be authorized.
Roster may be used to fill like vacancies for the next 120 days
Salary Range ($89,508 -$138,370) Yearly with locality pay included
Job Open Date 10/16/2026
Job Close Date 10/25/2026
Who may apply: All U.S. Citizens
National security moves at the speed of modern software and hardware integration. As an Electronics Technician Subject Matter Expert, you will be at the cutting edge of mission readiness-designing, developing, and fielding the advanced automated test systems and secure software solutions that ensure our combat platforms operate without fail.
In this pivotal role, you will bridge hardware engineering with agile DevSecOps to support Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management (C3BM) Mission Planning and Execution. Your expertise directly equips the warfighter with rapid, lethal capabilities, compressing the kill chain and ensuring mission dominance in contested environments.
What You Will Accomplish:
As an authoritative technical expert, your influence spans the full lifecycle of combat test systems and mission-planning infrastructure. In this role, you will:
- Drive End-to-End System Lifecycle: Spearhead the preliminary design, technical specification, prototyping, repair, and full production approval for advanced Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) software and hardware products.
- Compress the Kill Chain: Directly deliver combat capability by architecting and deploying secure software solutions and modern DevSecOps pipelines in support of critical C3BM operations.
- Modernize Joint Mission Planning: Streamline data cartridge production and common utility development, integrating platform-specific and joint components smoothly into the Joint Mission Planning Environment (JMPE).
- Ensure Operational Superiority: Establish rigorous design criteria and performance benchmarks, maintaining technical ownership from initial engineering concepts to final service use and frontline deployment.
- Bridge Multi-Disciplinary Frontiers: Collaborate with military planners, defense contractors, software engineers, and hardware specialists to translate complex operational needs into rapid, deployable engineering solutions.
This Role Is For You If You Are:
- A Mission-First Technologist: You are driven by the knowledge that your technical precision and engineering rigor safeguard military personnel and safeguard national security.
- A Hardware/Software Bridge Builder: You understand how automated testing hardware interfaces with modern software architectures, data cartridge pipelines, and secure DevSecOps environments.
- A Lifecycle Owner: You take pride in seeing complex systems through from blank-slate design and testing to field approval, maintenance, and fleet modernization.
- An Innovative Problem Solver: You challenge legacy test approaches and actively look for ways to accelerate turnaround times, enhance automated testing accuracy, and eliminate technical debt.
- A Respected Subject Matter Expert: You communicate complex technical concepts with clarity, providing sound guidance to leadership, cross-functional teams, and joint defense partners.
Why Choose Our Team?
- When you bring your technical talents to defense civil service, you gain access to an unparalleled mission and exceptional public service benefits:
- Direct Strategic Impact: Work on advanced aerospace, defense, and C3BM technologies that cannot be found anywhere in the private sector.
-Competitive Pay & Retirement: Competitive base salary plus locality adjustments, Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) with up to 5% government matching, and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) pension.
- Comprehensive Healthcare & Well-Being: Broad selection of federal health benefit (FEHB) plans, dental, vision, life insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
- Work-Life Balance & Stability: Paid federal holidays (11 per year), substantial annual and sick leave accrual, and flexible work schedules.
- Continuous Technical Advancement: Agency-sponsored training, security clearance sponsorship/maintenance, and leadership development programs.
Be the Difference on the Frontline of Defense Innovation.
The challenges facing our armed forces demand the best minds in hardware diagnostics and modern software delivery. If you are ready to apply your technical mastery where it matters most, step forward.
Apply today and help power the next generation of joint mission success.
Qualifications:
- As required, incumbent will accomplish TDY in performance of official duties and may be required to travel by
military or commercial aircraft in performance of these duties.
- The work may require the employee to drive a motor vehicle. An appropriate, valid driver's license may be
required for the position.
- The work requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance.
- Work may extend outside of normal duty hours requiring overtime or compensatory time.
Recruitment Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of electronics concepts, practices, standards, methods, techniques, materials, and equipment to effectively apply electronics principles and concepts to project development and execution.
2. Knowledge of integrated air-vehicles, ground systems, and support equipment sufficient to plan, design, test,
troubleshoot, and develop and/m sustain electronic systems or devices.
3. Knowledge of electronics as it pertains to the design, development, and documentation of hardware/software
products for automatic testing and support equipment, practices, and procedures.
4. Ability to analyze data and establish requirements for technical objectives and characteristics.
RESUME: Your resume may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. The two-page resume ensures the most relevant experience is reviewed and considered, which is a common practice in both the public and private sectors. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume is illegible/unreadable. Additional information on how to complete the two-page resume is located at https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit.
Depending on the type of position (competitive/excepted) you are selected for, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period OR 2-year trial period. Upon completion of your probationary/trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Click the apply button to complete an application and upload a resume no more than 2 pages (PDF Form) and/or additional documents (Transcripts, certifications, Vet Docs (DD214), SF-50).
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