Signals Analyst Professional - Entry/Experienced Level (MD, CO, GA, HI, TX)
As part of the offensive mission, NSA provides foreign Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), consistent with our authorities, to our nation's policy makers and military forces in order to defend our nation, save lives, protect U.S. interests, and advance U.S. alliances. Given today's rapid evolution of signals and advancements in adversarial technologies, the NSA must maintain and develop a highly talented and diverse workforce of SIGINT analysis professionals, e.g. Signals Analysts and Target Systems Analysts, spanning expertise in communications intelligence (COMINT), electronic intelligence (ELINT), foreign instrumentation signals intelligence (FISINT), and PROFORMA (formatted data communications) intelligence. These professionals play a vital part in maintaining our technical capabilities to recover, understand, exploit and derive intelligence from foreign communications and signals.
esponsibilities of Signals Analyst Professionals may include:
- Levy deep technical understanding of signal characteristics to determine signal structure, define signal parameters, identify signal content, and model signal behavior within the RF and digital domains.
- Transform signals between domains, and create processing models and scripts.
- Report technical characteristics of signals and maintain knowledge bases.
- Support access and follow-on analytic activities.
- Analyze engineering and technical information related to weapon and space systems.
- Conduct target analysis and research.
- Use knowledge of customer requirements to collect, process, analyze and/or report on signals intelligence information.
- Identify and analyze signal waveforms (e.g., weapon systems or communication systems), bit streams (e.g., multiplexers, error correction, voice and video compression, or instrumentation systems), and/or protocols (e.g., link layer, network layer, or application layer).
- Develop software code to support analysis and/or processing using a variety of architectures and solutions.
- Report signal parametric data and intelligence information in databases, narrative reports, and oral presentations.
- Collaborate with collection managers, developers, analysts, and reporters to optimize resources, develop new solutions to analytic challenges, fuse multiple sources of information, and deliver critical intelligence to a variety of customers.
ENTRY/DEVELOPMENTAL
Entry is with a Bachelor's degree and no experience. A high school diploma or GED plus 4 years of relevant experience, or an Associate's degree plus 2 years of relevant experience.
FULL PERFORMANCE
Entry is with a Bachelor's degree plus 3 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree plus 1 year of relevant experience, or a Doctoral degree and no experience. A high school diploma or GED plus 7 years of relevant experience, or an Associate's degree plus 5 years of relevant experience.
SENIOR
Entry is with a Bachelor's degree plus 6 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree plus 4 years of relevant experience or a Doctoral degree plus 2 years of relevant experience. A high school diploma or GED plus 10 years of relevant experience, or an Associate's degree plus 8 years of relevant experience.
Salary is commensurate with education and experience, and varies based on job location. On-the-job training, internal NSA courses, and external training will be made available based on the need and experience of the selectee. This position is hiring for Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, and Texas.
Salary Range: $74,682 - $164,102 (Entry/Developmental, Full Performance, Senior)