Chief, Exploratory Research Section
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; can fold minor metadata into short
or drop. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Also remove application instructions (like resume naming, file types, etc). Must preserve all substantive information. We need to parse the job posting. Key info: - OPEN TO CURRENT AFRL CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES ONLY. - Accepting submissions until 11:45 EST, 30 September 2026. - AFRL Foundational Technology Directorate seeks to hire a motivated and experienced DR-03-level General Engineer (0801), Materials Engineer (0806), Electrical Engineer (0850), Electronics Engineer (0855), Physicist (1310), or Chemist (1320), or related Job Series to serve as the Section Chief for the Exploratory Research Section of the Photonic Materials Branch in the Electronic, Photonic, and Soft Materials Division. (REE) of the Foundational Technology Directorate (RE) in Air Force Research Laboratory. - This position is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. - Position Duties Include, But Are Not Limited To: list of duties. Let's extract duties: - Exercises full realm of supervisory responsibility. - Responsible for workforce development; identifying, recruiting, and retaining personnel, identifying professional development opportunities and working with individuals to teach them the necessary skills for successful careers. - Provides employee performance/contribution assessments and appropriately recognizes employee achievements through formal and informal means. - Executes the branch strategy as codified by the REEP Branch Chief and Branch Technical Leadership. - Advises and provides counsel to employees regarding policies, procedures, and directives of senior management. - Determines the execution strategy of research and development funds to meet current and projected DAF requirements based on branch competencies, executing this strategy through technical and financial oversight of contracted R&D across varied instruments, agreements, and acquisition pathways to ensure performance alignment with mission objectives. - Leads R&D, engineering, program management, and/or other professional and scientific efforts to ensure quality and relevant technical oversight and individual/team contributions. - Works closely with Research Team Leads and Advanced Development Lead to ensure research is aligned to relevant demand signals. - Applies expert knowledge and advanced scientific and/or engineering principles to identify, develop, and lead new technical areas while ensuring assigned projects remain consistent with program objectives, costs, schedules, performance criteria, and existing policies. - Cultivates and sustains a professional atmosphere of high-impact contributions, cooperation, cohesion, and teamwork. Now Required Qualifications: - US Citizenship - Current AFRL employee - Must be a current DR-03 or possess 1+ year(s) relevant experience at the DR-02 level - Possess a professional science or engineering (S&E) degree, in a relevant technical field, from an accredited (or ABET accredited for engineering) academic institution - Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret-SCI security clearance. - Must have at least a current Secret clearance. - This position requires drug testing. - This is an Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP) position requiring Level 2 certification (Practitioner) in Engineering & Technical Management. - Applicants must list all completed APDP certifications on resume. - Selectee will have 60 months to meet the APDP certification requirements of the position. Desired Qualifications: - M.S. or Ph.D. in engineering or physical sciences - Management of complex laboratory and facilities infrastructure and associated contracts - Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams - Experience supervising or mentoring researchers and program managers - Broad technical experience in optical and/or electromagnetic materials, especially expertise related to electromagnetic spectrum survivability soft materials for electronics & sensing as well as resilient polymeric materials and responsive polymer systems - Demonstrated leadership of research and development related to optical and electromagnetic materials, within both unclassified and classified environments, including developing research plans and roadmaps, analyzing data, reporting results, and promoting technology transition - Excellent communication skills, including experience writing proposals and publications/reports as well as giving high-level presentations - Experience with organizational relationship building, including a demonstrated ability to build and maintain professional networks across and outside AFRL - Experience initiating and managing diverse and complex contract vehicles, including monitoring financial and schedule performance Telework: Yes, this position is eligible for situational telework; as determined by agency policy Eligible for a Referral Bonus? No Series list: 0801 0806 0830 0850 0855 0861 1301 1310 1320 Related Series Additional Information: NOTE: Must use MM/DD/YYYY date format for experience entries on resume. For resume writing tips, facts about the federal hiring process and additional resources, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/faq/application/documents/resume/what-to-include/ When uploading documents, please utilize the naming convention listed below. The Requisition Number for this announcement is XXXX: Resume: Req No_Last Name_First Name_Resume Latest SF50: Req No_Last Name_First Name_SF50 Acceptable file types: .docx, .pdf Instructions on how to submit documents are provided in the automated email you will receive once you apply. Candidates with resumes longer than 2-pages will not be considered. Requisition Number 82601 Posting End Date 09/30/2026 We need to remove application instructions (like resume naming, file types, etc). Also remove boilerplate like EEO etc (none present). Remove cookie/navigation/legal etc. We must preserve substantive info: opening statement, deadline, location, duties, required qualifications, desired qualifications, telework, referral bonus, series, posting end date maybe? The posting end date is same as deadline. Might be considered metadata; we could include in a short
maybe under About the role? The instructions say: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we can include a short paragraph with location, deadline, maybe series. We need sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections to include based on content. - About the role: could include overview: open to current AFRL civilian employees only, position purpose, location, etc. - Responsibilities: list of duties. - Requirements: maybe required qualifications (citizenship, clearance, degree, DR-03, etc). Could also include APDP certification requirement. - Qualifications: maybe desired qualifications? But we already have Requirements and Qualifications; maybe we split required vs desired. However instructions: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have both Requirements and Qualifications. We could put required qualifications under Requirements, and desired qualifications under Qualifications (or Skills). But Skills could be separate for skills like communication, relationship building, etc. However we have many desired qualifications that are skills/experience. Could put them under Skills. - Benefits: telework eligibility, maybe referral bonus (though no). Could also include location? Not benefit. Benefits: telework yes, referral bonus no (but we could mention not eligible). However we should not create a Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does state telework eligibility and referral bonus (No). So we can include Benefits section with telework and referral bonus. - Pay: not mentioned; do not create. - Schedule: not mentioned; do not create. Thus we will output sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications (maybe desired), Skills, Benefits. But we need to avoid thin sections. Could combine Qualifications and Skills? But we have both required and desired. Could put required under Requirements, desired under Qualifications, and maybe Skills under Qualifications? However we have many skill-like items in desired qualifications. Could treat Qualifications as desired qualifications (education, experience) and Skills as specific skill items (communication, relationship building, etc). But we risk thin sections. Better: Use Requirements for required qualifications (citizenship, clearance, degree, DR-03, APDP). Use Qualifications for desired qualifications (advanced degree, experience leading teams, etc). Use Skills for specific skill items like communication, relationship building, etc. But many desired qualifications already include skills; we could just put all desired under Qualifications and skip Skills. However we need to decide. Given instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we combine desired qualifications and skills into one section called Qualifications (or Skills). But we already have Requirements for required. Then we could have Qualifications for desired qualifications (including skills). That would be two sections plus About the role and Responsibilities and Benefits. That's 5 sections. Let's do: - About the role: overview, eligibility, location, deadline. - Responsibilities: list duties. - Requirements: required qualifications. - Qualifications: desired qualifications (including education, experience, skills). - Benefits: telework eligibility, referral bonus (No). We will not include Pay or Schedule. Now we need to format lists with
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. We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading for job title. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; we can include them in a short
maybe under About the role or Benefits? But we can drop them. The instruction: fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we could include a short paragraph with location, deadline, series, requisition number maybe. But we might drop requisition number as it's minor metadata. However we might keep location and deadline as they are substantive. Series maybe minor but could be included. Let's include a short paragraph under About the role: "Located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Open only to current AFRL civilian employees. Application deadline: 11:45 EST, 30 September 2026." We could also add series list maybe as a short note: "Open to series: 0801, 0806, 0830, 0850, 0855, 0861, 1301, 1310, 1320." But that's maybe minor; could drop. We'll keep location and deadline. Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "NOTE: Must use MM/DD/YYYY date format for experience entries on resume." That's application instruction; remove. Also remove "For resume writing tips..." etc. Remove "When uploading documents..." etc. Remove "Candidates with resumes longer than 2-pages will not be considered." Remove "Requisition Number 82601 Posting End Date 09/30/2026" maybe we already used deadline; we can drop the requisition number. Now let's craft HTML. We'll start with maybe not required; just output the HTML fragment. We'll do:
About the role
Open only to current AFRL civilian employees. The AFRL Foundational Technology Directorate seeks to hire a motivated and experienced DR-03-level General Engineer (0801), Materials Engineer (0806), Electrical Engineer (0850), Electronics Engineer (0855), Physicist (1310), or Chemist (1320), or related Job Series to serve as the Section Chief for the Exploratory Research Section of the Photonic Materials Branch in the Electronic, Photonic, and Soft Materials Division. This position is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Application deadline: 11:45 EST, 3