AI Software Engineer Office of Personnel Management Office of the Chief Informion Officer Summary As a AI Software Engineer (Recent Gradue) the GS-2210-7, you part of Office of Personnel Management, Office of the Chief Informion Officer. If selected, you responsible for you will support applicion development, testing, troubleshooting, documention, requirements interpretion, and limited artificial intelligence feure or da preparion work for enterprise software applicions. Learn more about this agency Summary As a AI Software Engineer (Recent Gradue) the GS-2210-7, you part of Office of Personnel Management, Office of the Chief Informion Officer. If selected, you responsible for you will support applicion development, testing, troubleshooting, documention, requirements interpretion, and limited artificial intelligence feure or da preparion work for enterprise software applicions. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted yesterday
- Apply by 06/04/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 4, 2026 Locion many vacancies in the following locion: Macon, GA No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $57,331
- $74,532 per year Pay scale & grade GS 7 Promotion potential 12 Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 2210 Informion Technology Management Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Critical-Sensitive (CS)/High Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-TAL-12971225-RG Control number 870976400 This job is open to Help Recent gradues Individuals who have gradued from an accredited educional institute or certifice program within the last 2 years or 6 years for Veterans. Videos Duties Help Assist with developing and modifying applicion software components using assigned programming languages such as Python, Java, or .NET. Code, debug, and test simple applicions, scripts, feures, or modules using development tools and version control. Support integrion of applicion components with enterprise systems by following documented protocols and interface requirements. Troubleshoot assigned software components by reviewing error logs, test results, code, and diagnostic procedures. Document software issues, tempted remedies, test results, requirements, and assigned action items. Assist with basic artificial intelligence feure testing or da preparion, including test cases, labeled samples, or model output validion. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigion May be required to successfully complete a probionary period Candides will not be hired based on their race, sex, color, religion, or nional origin Complete the initial online assessment and USAHire Assessment, if required You required to report to an OPM assigned office. This position is not eligible for inclusion in a bargaining unit Qualificions Successful applicants are placed in a dynamic 1 year developmental program with the potential to lead to a civil service career in the Federal Government. At the successful conclusion of this program, you may be eligible for non-competitive conversion to a Federal career or career-conditional position.
Basic Requirements:
You must have IT-reled experience demonstring each of the four competencies listed. Please respond Yes or No if you possess such experience.1) Attention to Detail
- Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about tending to detail.2) Customer Service
- Works with clients and customers (th is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products th your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizions outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide informion or assistance, resolve their problems, or sisfy their expections; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.
3) Oral Communicion
- Expresses informion (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nure of the informion (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentions; listens to others, tends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriely.4) Problem Solving
- Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of informion; uses sound judgment to genere and evalue alternives, and to make recommendions.
AND Specialized Experience:
For the GS-7: You must have one full year (52 Weeks) of specialized experience Comparable in scope and responsibility to the the GS-05 level (or equivalent) providing IT-reled experience. Applicants must have experience in the areas of: Assisting with coding, debugging, testing, or modifying applicion software, scripts, or system components using programming languages or development tools; And Using version control, test scripts, checklists, or documented procedures to support software development, testing, or defect tracking;And Reviewing error logs, code, test results, or system informion to identify software issues and document tempted remedies; And Assisting with requirements documention, user stories, test cases, or demonstrions to confirm th software components meet sted requirements. OR One full year gradue level educion in a reled field (such as: Computer science, engineering, informion science, informion systems management, mhemics, operions research, stistics, or technology management, etc.) OR A bachelor's degree with Superior Academic Achievement OR An equivalent combinion of qualifying gradue educion and specialized experience th together meets 100 percent of the qualificion requirement To meet the Recent Gradue Program Eligibility requirements, you must have obtained a qualifying Associes, Bachelor's, Master's, Professional, Doctore, Vocional or Technical degree or certifice from a qualifying educional institution, within the previous 2 years. Applicants who will meet all degree or certifice requirements for graduion within 30 days of the announcement's closing de are eligible to apply. All Educion must be accredited by an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions (particularly positions with a positive educion requirement.) Therefore, applicants must report only tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accredited institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. Applicants may verify accredition the following website: Accredition . All educion claimed by applicants verified by OPM accordingly.
ATTENTION VETERANS
A veteran, as defined in 5 U.S.C. 2108, who due to military service obligion, was precluded from applying to the Recent Gradues Program during any portion of the 2-year eligibility period shall have a full 2-year period of eligibility upon his or her release or discharge from active duty. In no event, however, may the individual's eligibility period extend beyond 6 years from the de on which the individual completed the requirements of an academic course of study. You must meet all qualificion and eligibility requirements by the closing de of this announcement. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Educion This position has a basic educion requirement listed under the Qualificions section of this announcement. Additional informion Relocion expenses will not be paid. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional similar vacancies across OPM. If you are a veteran and you are claiming 5-point veterans' preference, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility. If you are a veteran and you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference, you must also submit an SF-15, "Applicion for 10-Point Veterans' Preference" plus the proof required by th form. For more informion on veterans' preference click here . Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service .
Reasonable Accommodion Requests:
If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online applicion. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudicion decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments here: https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=Reasonable_Accommodions_for_USA_Hire
PROGRAM COMPLETION AND CONVERSION ELIGIBILITY
Program participants may be converted, without a break in service, to a term, career or career conditional appointment upon completion of program requirements. To be eligible for conversion, Recent Gradues must:
- Complete one continuous year of work experience acquired through a Recent Gradue Program
- Complete 40 hours of formal interactive training
- Meet the qualificion standards for the position to which the Recent Gradue converted
- Meet any agency-specific requirements specified in the Participant's Agreement
- Demonstre successful job performance th results in a ring of record of least Fully Successful and a recommendion for conversion by the first level supervisor.
As a condition of employment for accepting this position, the durion of your appointment considered a trial period during which we will evalue your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:
- your performance and conduct;
- the needs and interests of the agency;
- whether your continued employment would advance organizional goals of the agency or the Government; and
- whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Upon completion of your trial period your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. If you are unable to apply online and would like to request informion about the Alterne Applicion process, please use the contact informion the bottom of this announcement. Once the applicion process is complete, your resume used to determine whether you meet the job qualificions listed on this announcement. Qualified applicants placed in one of four groupings: Preference eligible having a compensable service-connected disability of 10 percent or more Other 10-point preference eligible 5-point preference eligible No preference eligible Selection made from the highest available preference group, as long as least three candides remain in th group. When fewer than three candides remain in the highest group, considerion may be expanded to include the next grouping. Your qualificions evalued on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): Attention to Detail, Customer Service, Flexibility, Integrity/Honesty, Interpersonal Skills, Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reasoning, Self-Management, Stress Tolerance, and Teamwork Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1. Your Resume showing the applicant's name, email address, work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment, and duties performed to include pay plan, series, and grade level for relevant federal experience. Your resume must show complete informion for each job entry to support minimum qualificions. Only the first 2 pages of the resume/applicion used to verify minimum qualificions. Please be sure to include specific des of employment and work schedule(s). Do not include the following types of informion in your resume: Classified or government sensitive informion Social Security Number (SSN) Photos of yourself Personal informion, such as age, sex, religious affiliion, etc. Encrypted and digitally signed documents 2. Your final college transcripts showing th you are a Recent Gradue to meet eligibility for this position. 3. Other supporting documents : Cover Letter, optional Veterans' Preference documention, if applicable (e.g. DD-214 Member Copy 4 showing type of discharge/character of service; Current Active Duty members must submit a certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions ded within 120 days; SF-15 Form and reled documention; VA letter.) Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents may result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: 1. Click the Apply Online button. 2. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. 3. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. 4. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. 5. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. 6. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. 7. Set aside least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. 8. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. For more general informion, system requirements, reasonable accommodion informion, and to request assistance regarding the USA Hire Assessments, review the following resources: https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=USA_Hire_Assessments To upde your applicion, including supporting documention : During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Click on this: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. You may preview the assessment questionnaire by clicking here: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12971225 Agency contact informion OPM Human Resources Phone 202-606-9321 jobs@opm.gov Address OPM Human Resources 1900 E St., NW Washington, DC 20415 US Next steps If you meet the minimum qualificions of this position, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments system. These additional online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement unless you have requested Reasonable Accommodion for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Your results kept on record for one year when applying for future jobs th require the same USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. We expect to make a job offer within 40 days after the closing de of the announcement. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct a suitability/security background investigion. An agency may not request, orally, in writing, or electronically through the USA Jobs website or other electronic means, th an applicant for appointment for a position in the civil service disclose criminal history record informion before the appointing agency extends a conditional offer of employment. If you believe you were asked about your criminal history improperly, contact the agency or https://www.opm.gov/about-us/careers
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Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1. Your Resume showing the applicant's name, email address, work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment, and duties performed to include pay plan, series, and grade level for relevant federal experience. Your resume must show complete informion for each job entry to support minimum qualificions. Only the first 2 pages of the resume/applicion used to verify minimum qualificions. Please be sure to include specific des of employment and work schedule(s). Do not include the following types of informion in your resume: Classified or government sensitive informion Social Security Number (SSN) Photos of yourself Personal informion, such as age, sex, religious affiliion, etc. Encrypted and digitally signed documents 2. Your final college transcripts showing th you are a Recent Gradue to meet eligibility for this position. 3. Other supporting documents : Cover Letter, optional Veterans' Preference documention, if applicable (e.g. DD-214 Member Copy 4 showing type of discharge/character of service; Current Active Duty members must submit a certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions ded within 120 days; SF-15 Form and reled documention; VA letter.) Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents may result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: 1. Click the Apply Online button. 2. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. 3. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. 4. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. 5. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. 6. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. 7. Set aside least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. 8. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. For more general informion, system requirements, reasonable accommodion informion, and to request assistance regarding the USA Hire Assessments, review the following resources: https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=USA_Hire_Assessments To upde your applicion, including supporting documention : During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Click on this: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. You may preview the assessment questionnaire by clicking here: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12971225 Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion OPM Human Resources Phone 202-606-9321 jobs@opm.gov Address OPM Human Resources 1900 E St., NW Washington, DC 20415 US Next steps If you meet the minimum qualificions of this position, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments system. These additional online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement unless you have requested Reasonable Accommodion for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Your results kept on record for one year when applying for future jobs th require the same USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. We expect to make a job offer within 40 days after the closing de of the announcement. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct a suitability/security background investigion. An agency may not request, orally, in writing, or electronically through the USA Jobs website or other electronic means, th an applicant for appointment for a position in the civil service disclose criminal history record informion before the appointing agency extends a conditional offer of employment. If you believe you were asked about your criminal history improperly, contact the agency or https://www.opm.gov/about-us/careers
- opm/opportunities/ Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent.
Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted yesterday
- Apply by 06/04/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 4, 2026 Locion many vacancies in the following locion: Macon, GA No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $57,331
- $74,532 per year Pay scale & grade GS 7 Promotion potential 12 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-TAL-12971225-RG Control number 870976400
