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Requisition Overview:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in one of the following:
  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Business Management
  • Finance
• Knowledge or experience in the following functional disciplines:
  • Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
  • Financial and Federal Accounting Standards
  • Cost Accounting Standards
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Financial Analysis
• At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale
• At least 24 semester credit hours of accounting coursework
• Documented good credit history
• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for CIA, including U.S. citizenship and background investigation

• Advanced degrees or professional certifications such as:
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Certified Internal Auditor
  • Certified Government Financial Manager
• Demonstrated Excellent:
  • Excellent Interpersonal skills
  • Verbal and written communication skills
  • Customer service
  • Analytic and problem-solving abilities
  • Team and independent work ethic

As an Accountant for CIA, you will play an integral part in achieving and sustaining auditable financial statements and ensuring financial transactions across a wide range of activities are accurately calculated, recorded, and tracked. You will have the opportunity to work directly with customers, becoming the link between complex transactions and financially accurate documentation.

You will be an important partner in all financial occupations, as well as across the Agency and Intelligence Community, as you gain governmental accounting expertise and provide financial analysis of programs and business enterprises.

You will have the opportunity to compete for global positions after successfully completing your initial developmental program.

Requisition Overview:

• Advanced degree (some offices will accept highly qualified candidates with bachelors degrees)
• At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale is preferred
• Experience in one or more of these fields:
  • Statistics
  • Mathematics
  • Econometrics
  • GIS/remote sensing
  • Operations research
  • Computer or mathematical programming
  • Demography
  • Survey research, design and analysis
  • Gaming
  • Modeling
• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation

• Interest in international affairs
• Awareness of U.S. national security interests
• Foreign language proficiency
• Strong verbal presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, concise text
• Research experience in international affairs
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Interest in a career that requires regular writing assignments

As an Analytic Methodologist at CIA, you'll develop and apply methods to add rigor and precision to intelligence analysis and collection. Methodologists support Agency analysis through statistical, econometric and mathematical assessments; geospatial modeling; or operations research; and communicate findings via a broad range of written intelligence products and briefings.

Opportunities exist for foreign and domestic travel, language training, and analytic tradecraft and management training. You will have an opportunity to develop deep substantive expertise and participate in broadening assignments with other offices in the Agency and across the U.S. Government.

Requisition Overview:

• At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Programming languages, and related web technologies, such as: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C, C#, C++, Go, Rust, Ruby, SQL, CSS, HTML, XML, JSON.
  • DevOps concepts and tools, such as: GitHub, JIRA, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Nexus, Nagios.
  • Database platforms, such as: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, NoSQL, MongoDB, Redis, HDFS
  • Familiarity with multiple hosting platforms, such as: Windows, Linux, VMware, Citrix, and cloud computing platforms.
  • Experience working with stakeholders on creating solutions with varied, sometime conflicting, requirements.
• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for CIA, including U.S. citizenship and background investigation

• Big data concepts and technologies, such as: Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Solr, Cloudera, MapReduce, R, Spark, Kafka, NiFi, and the ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana) or the OpenSearch stack.
• Application architecture and systems engineering principles, including: n-tier/services-oriented architecture, application design patterns, Agile development (e.g. Scrum, Kanban), application security, developing system requirements, system design artifacts and models, design documentation and development for commercial cloud (e.g. Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc).
• Software as a Service (SaaS) Platforms development and customization (eg. Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Office 365)
• UI/UX design, wireframing and prototyping experience. Experience with tools such as Pen Pot, Figma, Balsamiq etc.
• Experience with AI/ML development including using tools such as Scikit-lean, Pandas and Spacy.

As an Applications Developer for CIA, you will analyze, develop and deploy innovative information/software systems and capabilities to enhance the CIA's capabilities to collect, produce, and disseminate intelligence. Utilizing your education and experience as a Computer Scientist, Software Engineer, or Web Designer and Publisher, you will directly support analysis, intelligence collection, and other business. Applications Developers participate in team environments via structured development lifecycles: analyze and define local and/or enterprise information system requirements, perform system/application design, develop capability prototypes, develop and implement operational information systems, and conduct unit and integration testing of application modules. You also have the opportunity for hands-on research and exploration of leading-edge commercial technologies through application/integration of technology in delivering IT solutions.

Requisition Overview:

• Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields or related studies:
  • Architecture
  • Interior Design
  • Architectural Engineering
  • Related degree with focus in facilities management
  • Or, relevant years of work experience
• At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale is preferred, but exceptions may be made for extenuating circumstances
• One (1) year of experience applying substantive expertise in a facilities project with an emphasis in facilities project planning, resource scheduling, cost monitoring, task assignment, and timeline management
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytic skills
• Project management experience
• Thorough knowledge of building codes, Americans with Disabilities (ADA) requirements, and working knowledge of information technology, mechanical, electrical, or communication systems
• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation

• Working knowledge of AutoCAD and Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Professional Engineer's (PE) License
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

As an Architect/Facilities Project Manager for CIA, you will provide tailored facilities products and services for internal Agency customers. Architects at CIA are responsible for taking a project from conception, through the preparation of documents for construction and furniture selection, to occupancy. You will be responsible for creating safe, secure, and functional work environments to support the Agency's global intelligence mission.

Architect/Facilities Project Managers at the entry-level work under close guidance and supervision to manage and coordinate the activities of well-defined facilities project. At this level, you will participate in the following actions related to civil, electrical, mechanical control, and monitoring systems: project planning; developing Statements of Work and estimates; project implementation; monitoring cost, schedules, and performance; managing customer expectations; identifying potential risks; and performing quality assurance. You will also be expected to perform general administrative duties, maintain current project management job knowledge, and obtain appropriate certifications.

Architects/Facilities Project Managers are responsible for one or more facilities project management activities throughout the life of a project. Based on assignment, you may lead team members and contractors, travel domestically or overseas, and partake in sensitive and high visibility activities to achieve project objectives and customer requirements. You may also participate in the management of building support services and property management issues for small to medium-sized Agency facilities or participate in procurement activities in coordination with the assigned contracting officer.

CIA hires Architects/Facilities Project Managers at various career progression levels from entry to senior level.

This position requires a commitment to serve where mission needs are located. You must maintain an ongoing readiness to travel and relocate to meet short and long-term organizational requirements. A commitment to traveling overseas, including hardship locations, is required.

Requisition Overview:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in a quantitative science, engineering, or other STEM field.
• Experience in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) related field, such as:
• Computational Social Science
• Computer Science
• Data Analytics
• Economics
• Engineering
• Geospatial Analysis
• Mathematics
• Operations Research
• Quantitative Finance
• Statistics
• Experience with applying AI techniques to real world data through thesis research, internships, or work experience.
• Good fundamental understanding of a range of AI techniques and ability to match techniques to problems.
• Creativity
• Initiative
• Integrity
• Leadership abilities
• Problem solving skills
• Ability to work in a team environment
• 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

• Advanced degree in a data science or computational science equivalent field or sub-field
• Without previous work experience, a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale is strongly desired
• Experience working with data rich problems through research or programs
• Experience with computer programming or user experience/user interface
• Ability to work across, and help guide, teams including leveraging best commercial and industrial capability
• Ability to successfully complete projects with large or incomplete data, to tackle problems of and provide solutions

As an Artificial Intelligence Specialist for CIA, you will employ a wide range of AI techniques, to include deep learning and machine learning, multi-agent systems, expert systems, and mixed-initiative human-machine teaming to enable outstanding intelligent collection and the exploitation of data from our collection systems. Our AI solutions will improve the performance of our collection systems, enable faster, deeper, and better explained insights from collection. The solutions will ultimately boost the performance of our mission experts by enabling human – machine teaming and putting the right insights before the right experts algorithmically. CIA’s collection systems offer specialized insights spanning a wide range of phenomena and types of data; the AI work occurs across the Agency with edge processing, core processing, and autonomous capabilities. You will be working with teams of world-class experts, both internal and external to CIA – in many cases you will be steering the work of large collaborative teams. Your work will be realized using advanced hardware, software, and computational platforms with an emphasis of highly scalable and efficient solutions to bring exploitation capabilities to production and bear insights on the nation’s most difficult national security challenges. Problem solving is highly collaborative, you will be working with problem domain experts, data and collection experts, systems designers and integrators, and with analysts who interpret the insights you will be deriving. You will develop your expertise with both Agency-sponsored continuing education, academic and conference participation, and highly integrated on the job training with deep domain experts.

Requisition Overview:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent
• Certification from an accredited technical college
• Three (3) years or more of relevant automotive work experience gained either in the military or private sector
• Extensive knowledge of operating systems used in motor vehicles and experience using tools and technical manuals
• Ability to diagnose complex mechanical malfunctions, maintain logs and write routine correspondence
• Ability to work a flexible work schedule
• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation

• Commercial Driver’s License, Class A (CDL-A)
• Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Medium/Heavy Truck – Master’s or equivalent (vocational training program)
• Knowledge and experience in maintenance and repair of zero-emissions vehicles

As an Automotive Mechanic for CIA, you will serve as a leader in a unique environment with an accomplished team providing a full range of corrective repairs and preventative maintenance on a variety of different vehicle types across the country and around the world.

Specific job responsibilities include:

• Coordinate the establishment of work priorities and set repair schedules
• Purchase parts and services required to maintain vehicles
• Manage a preventative maintenance program for vehicles and equipment
• Prepare written estimates of repairs and costs
• Perform preventative maintenance and inspections
• Diagnose, assess, analyze, and troubleshoot vehicle and equipment malfunctions and repair problems on all types of vehicles/engines in a variety of situations
• Support emergency repair requests

All work is conducted through the proper selection and use of tools, equipment, devices, manuals, references, and efficient procedures and techniques, and may require use of all types of welding equipment.

A career as a CIA Automotive Mechanic may require a commitment to serve wherever the mission requires, including worldwide deployment to sometimes harsh and dangerous environments. Throughout your career you must maintain an ongoing readiness to travel and relocate to meet short and long-term organizational requirements.

Requisition Overview:

• Master’s degree in any of the life sciences or biotechnology:
• Demonstrated proficiency in:
• Ability to learn new skills in pace with technological advances
• Adapting to fast paced, dynamic requirement environments
• Interpersonal, organizational, and planning skills
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Strong team and independent work ethic
• Experience performing and managing research
• 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

• Advanced degree in the life sciences, examples include:
• Synthetic Biology
• Computational biology
• Neuroscience
• Forensics (biology/chemistry)
• Bioengineering
• Biochemistry
• Molecular biology
• Biophysics
• Microbiology
• Proven ability to leverage existing and emerging technology to deliver solutions
• Multi-disciplinary teamwork experience
• Program Management Certification
• Experience designing innovative research programs
• Experience managing a range of research efforts at varying complexity

As a biological research scientist within CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T), you will apply scientific expertise as an integral member of a technical team of innovative, expert problem solvers who deliver new solutions in support of CIA’s mission to collect foreign intelligence.

DS&T biological research scientists combine specialized technical knowledge and skills across the life sciences, to design, steer, and participate in the work of collaborative teams. Your work will be realized by leveraging advancements in biotechnologies and the broader life sciences with an emphasis on developing novel capabilities and providing technical insights on the nation’s most difficult national security challenges.

You will develop your expertise with Agency-sponsored continuing education, academic and conference participation, and highly integrated on the job training with domain experts.

Requisition Overview:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in one of the following fields or related studies or experience:
• Business Analytics
• Business Information Systems / Management Information Systems
• Business Management / Business Administration
• Data Analysis
• Accounting / Finance
• Public Policy / Public Administration
• Economics
• Statistics
• At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale
• Demonstrated skill in at least one of the following areas:
• Data Analytics
• Data Processing
• Data Visualization
• Analytic Consulting
• Computer Programming
• Business Process Improvement
• Human-Centered Design

Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation.

• Experience using Business Analytics tools (Tableau, Cognos, SPSS, Power BI, Excel) and/or programming languages (Python, R)
• Strong critical thinking and analytic skills
• Polished writing and presentation skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Ability to successfully generate solutions with big or incomplete data
• Experience presenting data-driven insights to customers and colleagues
• Experience with change management
• Familiarity with databases. data structure, and Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Strong curiosity and willingness to take initiative
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work individually and on a team in a rapidly evolving digital environment

As a Business Analytics Officer (BAO) for the CIA, you will evaluate and exploit a wide range of digital business data to help the Agency best use resources to meet mission requirements. You will use strong critical thinking skills and a variety of analytic methods to generate insights from data and create a range of products that explain your findings.

BAOs engage with CIA business leaders to understand needs and create data-driven ideas to improve efficiency and add value to process, products, and services. BAOs develop knowledge of Agency activities to quickly and accurately combine relevant business data sets in novel ways to reduce uncertainty for Agency decision makers. BAOs clearly communicate their conclusions, often through interactive and visual means. They maintain expertise through Agency-sponsored continuing education, attendance at academic and technical conferences, as well as collaboration with the Intelligence Community.

Requisition Overview:

• Bachelor's degree in one of the following with emphasis on statistical analysis:
  • Cartography
  • Geography
  • Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)
• At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale is preferred, but exceptions are made for extenuating circumstances
• Ability to collect, analyze, and integrate geographic and substantive data into an effectively designed cartographic product
• Knowledge of cartographic design principles including color and symbology theory, map projections, thematic and statistical mapping, topographic and reference mapping, display hierarchies, typography, and data generation
• Knowledge of GIS principles including data types; data layers; basic geographic, analytic and statistical functions; geographic coordinate systems; and data formatting
• Ability to work periodic shift work, including nights and weekends
• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation

• Proficient in the use of, or be rapidly gaining expertise with the software, hardware, and platforms necessary for cartographic, graphic, and web/mobile production, such as some of the following:
  • GIS
  • ESRI ArcGIS
  • HTML
  • Programming languages
  • Avenza MAPublisher
  • Intergraph GeoMedia Pro
  • Microsoft Office
  • Adobe software such as Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat
• Experience with the Adobe suite of software and web and mobile conveyance

As a Cartographer, you will be responsible for researching, designing, and producing thematic and reference maps in support of CIA finished intelligence. Intelligence maps are designed for conveyance via mobile devices, web, and print. Cartographers work on regional accounts, such as: Africa, Eurasia, Western Hemisphere, Europe, Middle East, or South Asia-Oceania. Cartographers are encouraged to participate in internal training as well as external workshops, training, and conferences.

You will work as part of a cartographic or interdisciplinary team managing multiple mapping projects under minimal supervision. You will work with analytic colleagues to define project requirements and provide advice on processes and procedures for optimal visual presentation. You will be expected to develop and maintain sufficient regional expertise to provide substantive input into the final map product, including geographic features, Board on Geographic Names (BGN) rulings, key issues, and recent developments.

Requisition Overview:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution (applicants within one year of earning a four-year degree will be considered); there is no preferred major or program of study (degrees from foreign academic institutions are accepted, but you are responsible for obtaining and providing CIA with a credential evaluation from an accredited firm confirming that the foreign degree is the equivalent of a BA/BS and/or MA/MS degree conferred by a U.S. college or university)
• At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale is preferred
• Personal integrity
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
• Action- and results-oriented
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently
• Flexibility, adaptability, and commitment to the mission of the CIA and the Directorate of Operations
• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation

• Willingness and ability to establish strong personal relationships
• Ability to "think on your feet" and develop creative yet practical solutions to anticipated and unanticipated problems
• Interest in seeking answers, learning foreign languages, and studying other cultures

As an Case Officer for the CIA, you will focus on clandestinely spotting, assessing, developing, recruiting, and handling non-U.S. citizens with access to foreign intelligence vital to U.S. foreign policy and national security decision-makers. You will be expected to build relationships based on rapport and trust using sound judgment, integrity, and the ability to assess character and motivation.

Case Officers spend most of their careers serving in multi-year assignments in a variety of overseas locations. As such, all Case Officers must be able to be medically cleared for world wide deployment. All Case Officers address a highly diverse and dynamic set of intelligence requirements on country- and region-specific issues, as well as transnational issues such as counterterrorism, counter proliferation, and cyber.

All DO officers are hired at an entry level and train as they are expected to work – as one team.  DO officers are hired into one of two programs:  the Clandestine Service Trainee (CST) program or the Professional Trainee (PT) program.  A CST has three or more years of professional experience, while a PT has less than three years of professional experience.  DO officers begin their careers learning the foundations of operations via classroom training, practical exercises, and on-the-job experience gained through a series of interim assignments.  Based on the program into which each applicant is hired, the number of interim assignments will vary. 

As part of the program, some DO officers will be expected to:

• Operate a motor vehicle without second-party assistance in daytime and nighttime conditions;
• Traverse uneven terrain, to include climbing and descending staircases, over fixed minimum distances and in varying weather conditions;
• Work non-traditional or erratic schedules;
• Make reasoned decisions under time constraints.

This position requires a 5-year Contract Term Agreement.