How the bench works
- You join the bench. We name you (with a short bio) as key personnel or a proposed consultant on proposals that match your expertise. Saying yes costs you nothing and commits you to nothing until an award funds.
- A contract is awarded. Federal SBIR awards fund the team named in the proposal. Your engagement begins — at an hourly rate agreed before you were ever named.
- You work remote, part-time, paid from the contract. Consultant seats run roughly 40–80 hours across a 6–12 month effort. The Principal Engineer role runs roughly 10–15 hours per week per active award and grows as awards stack.
Consultant engagements are funded by the award that names you, at a rate agreed before you are named.
Open roles
Principal Engineer (AI/ML)
Build production AI/ML systems for funded federal programs, working alongside our engineering team.
$60–$90/hrW-2Remote (U.S.)Senior .NET / SQL Server Engineer
Build and harden ASP.NET applications on Microsoft SQL Server for on-premises federal environments under a DISA STIG baseline.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Senior Java or Oracle APEX Developer
Build and extend REST services in a Government Java codebase over Oracle — policy-based access control, an authorization proxy, and integration tests that run against a real database.
$60–$95/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Senior Oracle Forms Developer
Maintain and modernize Oracle Forms applications on a federal data platform, and build the web interface that replaces them — permission management for technical and non-technical users.
$60–$85/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Full-Stack Web Application Engineer
Build the web client, the service APIs and the visualization layer for federal applications that specialists use every day.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Formal Methods & Software Assurance Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our software-assurance and formal-verification work correct on what can actually be proven, at what cost, and what a certifier will accept.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Edge & Low-SWaP Computing Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our edge, embedded, and low-SWaP work honest about what actually fits in the power, thermal, and latency budget of a real platform.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Enterprise Cloud & IT Services Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real federal enterprise IT delivery experience to cloud brokerage, managed services and large IT services bids.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Cybersecurity / RMF Subject-Matter Expert
Review our security architectures and RMF/compliance approaches against how DoD accreditation actually works — automated RMF assessment, defensive-cyber tooling, zero trust, and OT/critical-infrastructure defense.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Quantum & Post-Quantum Cryptography Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our quantum and post-quantum cryptography work correct on the mathematics, the standards, and what a real network can actually adopt.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Neuromorphic & Brain-Inspired Computing Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our spiking-network and brain-inspired AI work correct on the neuroscience, the hardware and what actually beats a conventional network.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Model-Based Systems Engineering Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our model-based systems engineering work grounded in how requirements, architecture, and verification actually flow on a Navy program.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Section 508 & Accessibility Engineer (WCAG 2.1 AA)
Make every deliverable we hand a federal agency conformant — documents, web applications and dashboards tested against WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508, with the evidence to prove it.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)HPC & Parallel Computing Engineer
Keep our large-scale computation honest — codes that scale across nodes and GPUs, measured, reproducible and portable to the Government's own systems.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Digital Twin & Simulation Engineer
Keep our digital-twin and simulation work tied to the physical system it represents — validated against measured data, not against itself.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Computational Multiphysics & FEA Engineer
Keep our structural, thermal, fluid and electromagnetic modelling correct — meshes, boundary conditions and convergence checked, results verified against test data.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Reinforcement Learning & Multi-Agent Autonomy Researcher
Keep our reinforcement-learning and multi-agent autonomy work honest — agents that beat a real baseline in a real environment, with the experiment design a reviewer can trust.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)UX Research & Interface Design Subject-Matter Expert
Make the systems we propose usable by the people who will actually run them — clinicians, plan reviewers, case workers — with research and interface design an evaluator can see in the pages.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Data Engineering & Metadata Architect
Build and defend the data layer under our federal work — ingestion, lineage, catalog and quality that hold up when an agency audits where a number came from.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Applied LLM & Retrieval Engineer
Keep our AI claims measurable — retrieval systems and language-model applications with real evaluation behind them, not demos that fall apart on the customer's own documents.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Data Science & Analytics Dashboard Developer
Turn the customer's data into dashboards their own staff will use — clear measures, honest definitions and self-service reporting that survives contact with non-technical users.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Test & Evaluation / IV&V Engineer
Prove what we claim before the Government has to — test plans, release validation and independent verification with measured results instead of assurances.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365 & SharePoint Developer
Build the Microsoft-stack systems agencies keep asking us for — Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and SharePoint Online that work inside their tenant and their rules.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Systems & Network Administrator (Windows, Active Directory, Firewalls, Backup)
Run and defend the small-agency IT we are hired to manage — Windows and Active Directory, firewalls and switches, and backups that have actually been restored.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Identity, Credential & Access Management (ICAM) Engineer
Build the login and access layer federal systems are judged on — CAC and PIV, single sign-on, provisioning and certificates that work the way the agency's policy says.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)AV / VTC Systems Integrator (Crestron, Teams Rooms, Secure KVM)
Design and price the conference rooms and operations centers we bid — AV over IP, video walls, Crestron control and secure KVM that pass a Government acceptance test.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)ServiceNow / Salesforce Platform Developer
Build and integrate the platform work we bid — Salesforce and ServiceNow configuration, REST integrations and sandbox-to-production releases that hold up in a Government environment.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Drupal & Web CMS Engineer
Build the public websites we bid — Drupal and headless CMS platforms, content migrations and multi-site governance delivered on cloud hosting an agency will accept.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Field IT Support & Help Desk Technician (Regional, On Site)
Do the hands-on IT work behind our managed services contracts — help desk, desktop and network support, on site at the customer's facility when the contract needs a person there.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Native Mobile Application Engineer (iOS, Android)
Build the mobile applications we bid — native iOS and Android work, offline behavior and API integration, delivered through app store review and into a public agency's hands.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Instrumentation & Controls Engineer, ABB 800xA & Rockwell PLC
Configure and test ABB 800xA and Allen-Bradley/Rockwell control systems for a Department of Energy site upgrade in the Tri-Cities, Washington. On site in Richland, Kennewick or Pasco.
$90–$140/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Software Quality Assurance Engineer, NQA-1 & DOE O 414.1D
Own the software quality records on a Department of Energy control-system project: verification and validation plans, test evidence and the grading that ASME NQA-1 Subpart 2.7 and DOE O 414.1D require.
$80–$120/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Operations Technology Project Lead & Business Analyst, Tri-Cities WA
Lead the day-to-day delivery of a Department of Energy operations-technology software project from the Tri-Cities, Washington: requirements, schedule, site coordination and the customer relationship.
$85–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Semantic Web Engineer, SKOS Thesaurus & VocBench
Maintain and extend a large federal agricultural thesaurus in SKOS and OWL using VocBench: concept editing, SPARQL quality checks, releases and the linked-data publishing pipeline.
$80–$120/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Research Software Engineer (Reproducible Scientific Pipelines)
Make scientific code something a reviewer can believe — pipelines that rerun, results that reproduce, releases that a sponsor can install.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Uncertainty Quantification & Model Validation Scientist
Put honest error bars on a model — verification, validation and uncertainty quantification that survives a technical reviewer.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWMOSA Open-Architecture and Real-Time Middleware Engineer
Design the open-architecture backbone of shipboard and airborne systems so new capability plugs in without a rewrite, using DDS, FACE and published interface control documents.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWPrincipal Investigator, Applied AI and Data (SBIR / STTR / NIH)
Lead a funded research project as the named principal investigator, own the science, the milestones and the reports, and keep the work honest against what the sponsor asked for.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWAgentic AI and Decision-Systems Engineer
Build governed, auditable AI agents that turn a messy request into a structured decision package, with schemas, tool use, provenance and a human in the loop.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWAI Evaluation, Test and Assurance Scientist
Measure whether an AI system actually works, under distribution shift, adversarial input and influence attempts, and produce evidence a test community will accept.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWPrivate 5G and Wireless Network Engineer
Design and stand up private cellular and wireless networks for flight lines, stadiums, factories and bases, secure, measurable and integrated with the systems that ride on them.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWCyber Deception and Digital Signature Management SME
Reduce what an adversary can learn from our people and systems on untrusted networks, and build deception that wastes their time instead of ours.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWSOC, SIEM and Detection Engineer
Run and tune security operations: log pipelines, SIEM correlation, SOAR playbooks, EDR response and the evidence that meets federal logging mandates.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWPenetration Tester, IT and OT/ICS
Test networks, applications and control systems the way an attacker would, including water, wastewater, building and utility systems, and write findings an operator can fix.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWZero Trust and Network Segmentation Architect
Design zero-trust architectures and IT/OT segmentation for agencies, campuses and utilities, and prove the design with configuration audits, not slideware.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWDevSecOps and Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Build and run the secure delivery platform: Kubernetes or OpenShift, infrastructure as code, pipelines with SBOM and scanning, on commercial or DoD impact-level clouds.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWDatabricks and Lakehouse Data Engineer
Build the data platform under the analytics: Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, dbt dimensional models and orchestrated ELT that reruns cleanly and proves its own quality.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWData Governance and Master Data Management Lead
Make an agency's data trustworthy: governance operating model, catalog and stewardship, master-data and entity resolution that links the same person or asset across systems.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWConversational AI and Cloud Contact-Center Engineer
Build voice and chat agents and the contact-center platform behind them: speech recognition, NLU, SIP and E911 integration, multilingual flows and measured containment.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWLegacy and Mainframe Modernization Engineer
Get data and logic out of COBOL, DB2, PowerBuilder and Oracle 11g systems safely: copybook integration, migration, reconciliation and a modern stack that keeps the business rules.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWSearch Platform Engineer (Elasticsearch / Solr / OpenSearch)
Build search that finds the right document: crawling and indexing, relevance tuning, taxonomy and metadata, search analytics and generative answers grounded in the index.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWIntelligent Document Processing and OCR Engineer
Turn paper and PDFs into trusted data: OCR and layout models, extraction and classification, validation rules, duplicate detection and human review queues.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWPublic-Sector Cybersecurity Assessor (NIST CSF 2.0, CJIS, CMMC)
Assess cities, counties, utilities, districts and small contractors against the frameworks they must meet, and hand them a roadmap and POA&M they can actually execute.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.)GEOINT / EO-IR Imagery Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real imagery-exploitation practice to our satellite tasking, automated target recognition, and EO/IR detection work — how imagery is actually tasked, collected, and analyzed across government and commercial constellations.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Lidar & Remote Sensing Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our lidar and remote-sensing work correct on sensor physics, collection geometry and what the data can support.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)ISR & Sensor Fusion Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our multi-sensor fusion and ISR work grounded in how collection, correlation, and dissemination actually run.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Radar / RF / Electronic Warfare Subject-Matter Expert
Ground our work in adaptive waveform design, counter-UAS, target tracking, and RF signal analysis in how radar and EW systems are really operated and maintained.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Sonar / Undersea Warfare Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our machine-learning work on passive sonar tracking, mine-countermeasures sonar, and maritime autonomy true to how the fleet actually operates.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Precision Tracking & Directed Energy Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our precision-tracking and directed-energy work correct on pointing, jitter, atmospherics, and what a real engagement chain can hold.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Optical Materials & Test Engineering Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our optical measurement work correct on the physics, the standards and how the test is actually run in a lab.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Guidance, Navigation & Control / PNT Subject-Matter Expert
Ground our work in GPS-denied navigation, inertial and vision-aided nav, interceptor guidance, and assured PNT in how these systems really behave on fielded hardware.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Computer Vision & Perception Engineer
Keep our imagery, video and perception work correct on real data — detection, tracking and segmentation measured on the datasets a Government reviewer trusts.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)GIS & Geospatial Data Engineer
Build the geospatial side of our work properly — clean base data, correct projections, published services and maps that hold together at every scale the customer uses.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Quantum Information Scientist & Control Engineer
Keep our quantum work credible — qubit characterization, control electronics and calibration software described the way a physicist reviewing the proposal would want to read it.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Microelectronics & Semiconductor Process Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our microelectronics claims real — device fabrication, packaging, test and supply chain described accurately for proposals that touch chips rather than only software.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWSAR and Radar Machine-Learning Engineer
Build machine learning that works on radar data, synthetic aperture imagery, passive radar returns and complex phase history, not just on optical pictures.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Aviation & Autonomous Systems Subject-Matter Expert
Ground our flight-autonomy work in real cockpit and mission practice — assured autonomy, formation flight, counter-UAS, mission planning, and airborne AI assistants for Air Force and Navy aviation programs.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Instrument Flight Procedure Designer
Turn FAA, ICAO and NATO terminal instrument procedure criteria into rules a software engine can execute — and check every one before it ships.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Counter-UAS / Counter-Swarm Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our counter-UAS and counter-swarm work honest about detection, tracking, engagement decisions, and what a defended site actually sees.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Space Operations & Space Weather Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real space-operations practice to our satellite tasking, space-domain awareness, orbital logistics, and ionospheric forecasting work for NASA and Space Force customers.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Maritime Domain Awareness Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our maritime tracking, behavior-analysis, and anomaly work grounded in how congested waterways and real vessel traffic actually behave.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Naval Aviation & Shipboard Systems Subject-Matter Expert
Ground our carrier and shipboard work in how launch and recovery equipment, flight decks and naval air operations actually run and fail.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Weapons Systems & Fire Control Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our weapons, fire-control, and engagement-coordination work correct on the kill chain, the timelines, and what a real system will do.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Mission Planning & Post-Mission Debrief Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our mission-planning and debrief work grounded in how aircrews and staffs actually plan, execute, and reconstruct a mission.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Wargaming & Course-of-Action Analysis Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our wargaming and course-of-action work grounded in how staffs actually generate, compare, and defend options.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Robotics & Autonomous Systems Engineer
Keep our autonomy work grounded — guidance, navigation and control, multi-vehicle behavior and on-board decision software that survives a real platform and a hostile technical review.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)FAA Part 107 UAS Pilot & Aerial Survey Operator
Fly and plan the aerial collection behind our field work — Part 107 operations, survey missions and imagery that meets the customer's accuracy requirement.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWSpace Sensing and Missile-Warning Data Scientist
Turn overhead persistent infrared and multi-phenomenology space sensor data into detection, tracking and warning that operators trust.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWSpace Systems Cyber Defense Engineer
Defend spacecraft, ground segments and links: real-time monitoring, autonomous cyber response and red-team testing built for the constraints of an on-orbit system.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWEmbedded RTOS and Flight Software Engineer
Write and test the software that runs on the vehicle: VxWorks and real-time Linux, runtime assurance, SITL and HITL test rigs and safety regression that flight test will accept.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Health Informatics & Clinical Data Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our military and federal health work correct on clinical reality — how care is actually documented, coded and moved between systems.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Clinical Trials & Biostatistics Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real trial design and biostatistics to our health SBIR work — endpoints, powering, and analyses that survive a study section.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Health Economics & Outcomes Research Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real health-economics practice to vaccine, therapeutic and public-health market analysis — demand forecasting, cost-effectiveness and what a payer will actually fund.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Regulatory Affairs & FDA Submissions Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our medical software and device work correct on the regulatory pathway — what FDA will require, in what order, and what it will cost.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Medical Coding, Claims & Appeals Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real coding and claims-appeals practice to autonomous coding and denials work for military health.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Epidemiology & Public Health Surveillance Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our public-health analytics honest about surveillance data — what it can support, and what it cannot.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Health Physics / CWMD Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our radiation-detection and counter-WMD work correct on the physics, the instruments, and the operational reality of a survey.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Human Performance & Training Assessment Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our training-assessment and human-performance work honest about what can be measured, what it predicts, and what a trainee actually experiences.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Bioinformatics Software Engineer
Build and validate the pipelines behind our genomics and biomedical-data work — reproducible, benchmarked and ready for an NIH reviewer.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)NIH Grants Operations & Data Management Plan Specialist
Keep our NIH and federal-grant submissions correct on the administration — data management and sharing plans, 2 CFR 200 budgets, eRA Commons and the forms a reviewer never sees but a grants officer always does.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Clinical Research Coordinator & IRB Regulatory Specialist
Keep our human-subjects research compliant and ready to start — IRB submissions, consent, regulatory binders and the operations a study needs from day one.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Molecular Biology & Sequencing Laboratory Subject-Matter Expert
Bring bench reality to our health research proposals — assay design, sequencing strategy and specimen handling that a Department of Defense or NIH review panel will accept.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Clinician Reviewer (MD, RN, PharmD) & Medical Subject-Matter Expert
Read our health proposals the way a practicing clinician would — the workflow, the safety story and the clinical claims, so nothing we write would embarrass us at the bedside.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Analytical Chemistry & Laboratory Sciences Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our laboratory and measurement claims defensible — methods, calibration and quality control that hold up when a reviewer asks how the number was produced.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Preclinical & Translational Research Scientist
Keep our health research proposals scientifically honest — preclinical models, translational endpoints and the regulatory path from bench work to a study a sponsor will fund.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Community Health Assessment & Population Indicator Analyst
Turn population data into the assessments our public health customers can act on — indicators, surveillance analysis and community health assessments that meet accreditation standards.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Research Data Sharing, Repository & FAIR Data Architect
Write and defend the data sharing and repository plans federal science sponsors now score — where the data goes, who may reach it, and how long it lasts.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Participant Recruitment & Retention Operations Specialist
Make the accrual plan credible — who will actually enroll, how fast, how many stay, and what it takes to keep them.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Causal Inference & Quasi-Experimental Evaluation Statistician
Say what an intervention actually caused — designs and estimators that hold up when the data was never randomized.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Cancer Biology & Tumor Microenvironment Research Scientist
Keep our oncology proposals correct on the biology — mechanism, model system and what the tumor environment will actually do.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Implementation Science & Dissemination Specialist
Plan for what happens after the finding — adoption, fidelity and the dissemination the sponsor will hold us to.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Multi-Omics & Computational Biology Scientist
Turn omics data into a claim that survives review — integration, batch effects and the statistics the assay actually supports.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Neuroscience & Neural Data Systems Scientist
Keep our neuroscience and neural-data proposals correct — the recording, the model, the standard format and what the signal can really tell you.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Immunology & Host-Response Research Scientist
Keep the immunology honest — host response, assay choice and what an immune readout actually proves.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWEmergency and Critical Care Physician, Combat Casualty Care Advisor
Keep our military-medicine software clinically right: triage, hemorrhage, resuscitation, prolonged field care and casualty flow in austere and contaminated environments.
$120–$200/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWVector Entomology and Pest Surveillance SME
Ground our pest and vector detection networks in real biology: lures, traps, identification and how a surveillance program is actually run in the field.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWClinical Data Manager (REDCap / EDC / CDISC)
Build and run study databases that regulators and data coordinating centres accept: REDCap and EDC design, CDISC standards, de-identification and clean, documented datasets.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Hydrology & Water Resources Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our water work correct on the hydrology — gauges, forecasts, reservoir operations and the data behind them.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Senior ESA Biologist / Freshwater Mussel Specialist
Bring real Endangered Species Act practice to species status assessments, life-history and stressor analysis, and freshwater mussel and bat conservation work for federal field offices.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Environmental Restoration & Munitions Response Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our environmental restoration and munitions-response work correct on site practice, regulation and real field constraints.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Nuclear Operations & DOE Environmental Management Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real DOE nuclear-site practice to mission IT, safety-basis and environmental management work.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Energy & Critical Minerals Project Scoping Subject-Matter Expert
Scope energy and critical-minerals projects in emerging markets, and write the Terms of Reference that make a feasibility study worth funding.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Mining, Metallurgy & Geotechnical Engineering Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our critical-minerals work correct on how a deposit actually becomes a mine, a plant and a supply chain.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Geoscience Data Specialist (Anchorage, AK, on site)
Organize, reconcile and archive about 250 TB of Alaska OCS geoscience data in Kingdom and ArcGIS Pro for a one-year Department of the Interior requirement. Full time, 12 months from award.
$100/hrW-2 / 1099On site, Anchorage, AKInterpretation Geophysicist and Workflow Analyst (Anchorage, AK, on site)
Design and document the master (golden) Kingdom interpretation workflow and automate data integration for a one-year Department of the Interior requirement. Full time, 12 months from award.
$100/hrW-2 / 1099On site, Anchorage, AKMaterials Science, Corrosion & Coatings Engineer
Ground our materials work in measurement — corrosion behavior, coating performance and characterization data that a Government materials reviewer will accept as real.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Environmental Compliance, NEPA & Ecology Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our environmental and infrastructure work compliant from the start — NEPA documentation, permitting and ecological survey methods written the way the reviewing agency expects.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Marine Field Biology & Fisheries Subject-Matter Expert
Ground our fisheries and marine work in real field practice — sampling that survives a season at sea and data a NOAA science center will accept.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Power Systems & Grid Engineer
Keep our energy and grid work grounded in real power engineering — load, protection, interconnection and power budgets that an operating utility would sign.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Agriculture, Food Safety & Natural Resources Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real agricultural and food safety judgment to our work — production practice, food defense, and natural resource science described the way a program officer in the field would want it.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Hydrocarbon Downstream Supply-Chain Subject-Matter Expert
Explain how fuel actually moves from terminal release through dispatch, transport and retail in Ecuador, where subsidised product leaks out of the legal chain, and what data would show it.
$90–$140/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Fisheries Field Technician & At-Sea Observer, Puerto Rico
Go to sea with commercial fishers in Puerto Rico to sample reef fish for a NOAA Fisheries life-history study: lengths, otoliths and gonad tissue, recorded to protocol and delivered clean. Two positions, bilingual.
$30–$50/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Field Project Coordinator & Local Database Manager, Puerto Rico
Run the Puerto Rico side of a NOAA Fisheries biosampling project part-time: line up captains and charters, coordinate the technicians, and keep the sample database current and clean.
$40–$65/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Natural-Gas Leak Survey Crew Lead, Arizona
Lead a seasonal leak survey of the underground natural-gas distribution system on a U.S. Air Force installation in Arizona: instrument surveys, bar-hole pinpointing, leak grading and the 49 CFR 192 records.
$45–$75/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Natural-Gas Leak Survey Field Technician, Arizona
Walk the natural-gas distribution system on a U.S. Air Force installation in Arizona with combustible-gas instruments, log every reading and help pinpoint and grade leaks for repair. Seasonal, on site.
$28–$45/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWBuilding Energy Analytics and Measurement and Verification Engineer
Turn building and utility data into verified savings: BACnet and Modbus ingestion, fault detection, EnergyPlus modelling and IPMVP measurement and verification a utility will sign.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Civil Infrastructure & Asset Management Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real asset-management practice to predictive maintenance and condition assessment for pipelines, rail and public works.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Transportation & Traffic Data Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our roadway and traffic analytics correct on how traffic data is actually collected, validated and used.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Rail & Transit Systems Subject-Matter Expert
Ground our rail and transit analytics in how train control, track and wayside assets are actually maintained and governed.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Smart Cities & ICT Infrastructure Subject-Matter Expert
Bring ten years of real smart-cities and ICT delivery to digital infrastructure scoping — intelligent transportation, smart utilities, 5G, fiber and the security around them.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)International Development & Emerging Markets Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our overseas infrastructure work grounded in how development finance, host governments and U.S. export promotion actually operate.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Civil / Structural Plans Examiner & Permitting Subject-Matter Expert (ICC, PE)
Be the code authority behind our permitting and plan review work — the person who can say what a correction actually is and defend it to a building official.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Project Lead, Ecuadorian Law-Enforcement & Criminal-Justice Assessment
Lead a field assessment of how illicit fuel and financial crimes move from detection to prosecution in Ecuador, for the U.S. Department of State. A retired senior Ecuadorian National Police or prosecutorial officer is the ideal fit.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Field Research Coordinator, Ecuador (Spanish-language interviews)
Schedule, run and document structured interviews and focus groups in Spanish with police, prosecutors, regulators and industry across Ecuador, and keep the field data clean for the assessment team.
$40–$70/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Latin America Criminal-Justice & Prosecutorial Process Expert
Assess how cases move from detection through investigation, prosecution and disposition in Ecuador, benchmark it against the region, and design the pilot, indicators and risk matrix the State Department can fund.
$90–$140/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWTravel Demand Modeler and Transportation Planner
Model how people and freight actually move: travel demand and network models, traffic-signal performance data, long-range plans and the Title VI analysis that goes with them.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWGlobal Health Information Systems Engineer (DHIS2 / OpenMRS / FHIR)
Build and deploy national health information systems for ministries and UN agencies: DHIS2, OpenMRS, LIMS, HL7 FHIR interoperability and health-workforce registries.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Defense Logistics & Transportation Subject-Matter Expert
Ground our supply-chain digital twins, in-transit visibility, vendor-risk analytics, and intelligent transportation work in how military logistics and federal transportation programs actually run.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Inventory & Warehouse Systems Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our inventory and warehouse software correct on how material actually moves, is counted and is traced.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Digital Thread & Manufacturing Data Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our digital-thread, digital-twin, and manufacturing-data work grounded in how depots, suppliers, and program offices really operate.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Metrology & Measurement Science Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our measurement claims defensible — traceability, uncertainty budgets, and calibration that a standards body would accept.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Military Training & Simulation Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our training-technology work honest to how military instruction actually runs — adaptive training systems, simulation-based assessment, VR walkthroughs, and warfighter-performance analytics for Navy and Marine Corps training commands.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)XR & 3D Content Pipeline Subject-Matter Expert
Turn technical data into usable AR, VR and 3D training assets — and know what a real content pipeline costs to run.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Instructional Designer & e-Learning Developer
Build the training our federal customers actually have to run — courses, scenarios and job aids that hold up in an LMS and teach the thing on the first pass.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Prognostics & Condition-Based Maintenance Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our maintenance and digital-twin claims honest — failure modes, sensors and remaining-useful-life models that a sustainment engineer will accept.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Mechanical Design, Manufacturing & Additive Engineer
Keep our hardware claims buildable — load-bearing geometry, additive and conventional process routes, and thermal and structural designs that a manufacturing reviewer will accept.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Human Systems Integration & System Safety Subject-Matter Expert (MIL-STD-882)
Own the safety and human factors story on our defense hardware bids — hazard analysis, human systems integration and the named person a Government evaluator looks for.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWOperations Research and Optimization Scientist
Solve the routing, scheduling, shelf-space and resource-allocation problems behind logistics and retail operations with optimisation that runs at the scale the client has.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Survey Statistics & Population Estimation Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our population and eligibility estimates defensible — weighting, variance, small-area methods and the limits of the survey.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Veterans Benefits & Claims Administration Subject-Matter Expert
Bring real VA benefits administration practice to claims, appeals and education-benefit data work.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Behavioral Health & Justice Data Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our behavioral-health and criminal-justice data work correct on practice, privacy and what the records can support.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Emergency Management & Human Services Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our disaster and human-services work grounded in how response and recovery actually run.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Education & Learning Science Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our education-technology work true to real classrooms — AI tools for teachers, administrators, and students built for Department of Education and IES programs, grounded in educator workflows and education-research evidence standards.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Alternate Project Director — Researcher Experience Assessment (Library of Congress)
Lead the survey and assessment work behind a Library of Congress study of how the researcher experience is measured across its sixteen reading rooms. Part time, about 40 hours a month, from award.
$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.), occasional sessions in Washington, DCPublic Safety & Law Enforcement Operations Subject-Matter Expert
Tell us how a police, fire or 911 operation really runs so the systems we propose fit the shift, the policy and the record, not just the requirement list.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Linguistics, Translation & Language Technology Subject-Matter Expert
Make our multilingual and speech work correct — translation that reads naturally, transcription that holds up as a record, and language claims we can defend.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Student Information Systems Integrator (Ellucian, Banner, PeopleSoft)
Connect the campus systems of record — Banner, PeopleSoft and their neighbors — so student, finance and HR data moves correctly instead of by spreadsheet.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWNative American Ministry Outreach Coordinator (Remote, Full-Time)
Help churches, ministries and faith groups in Native American communities join a national Bureau of Prisons directory that helps people coming home from prison. Full-time, remote, $40 an hour.
$40/hr1099 · Full-timeRemote (U.S.) NEWNative American Outreach Coordinator (Remote, Full-Time)
Reach churches, nonprofits, tribal programs and community groups in Native American communities for a national Bureau of Prisons directory that helps people coming home from prison. Full-time, remote, $40 an hour.
$40/hr1099 · Full-timeRemote (U.S.) NEWPublic-Sector ERP, HCM and Payroll Functional Lead
Lead ERP, HCM and payroll implementations for cities, counties, districts and universities: requirements, configuration, data conversion, parallel payroll and go-live.
$70–$110/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWActuarial and Claims Analytics Data Scientist
Model insurance and benefits programmes the way an actuary would: loss development, frequency and severity, exposure and predictive risk scoring on claims data.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWAdvancement CRM and Donor Predictive-Modeling Analyst
Help universities and non-profits use their advancement data: CRM extraction, wealth and engagement features, propensity and bequest models, and dashboards the gift officers trust.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWPublic-Sector SaaS Implementation and Training Lead
Take a city, county or agency live on a new system: configuration, data migration, UAT, cutover, train-the-trainer and the first months of support, on site when the client needs it.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Federal Capture & Proposal Manager
Run capture and proposal management on federal bids — read the scorecard, build compliance, and make the package win rather than merely qualify.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)DoD Acquisition & Transition Subject-Matter Expert
Sharpen how our funded programs transition — a former DoD program manager or PEO professional who knows which program offices buy, how money moves, and what a credible Phase II-to-Phase III pathway actually looks like.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Contracting & Vendor Risk Analytics Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our contracting, vendor-risk, and acquisition-data work correct on the regulations, the data, and how a contracting officer really decides.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Records Management & Legal Discovery Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our records, FOIA and discovery work correct on process, privilege and defensibility.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Federal Records Digitization Project Director
Run a NARA-compliant digitization of a Federal agency's paper records end to end: pickup in Washington, DC, scanning to 36 CFR 1236 and FADGI, OCR to a 99 percent threshold, metadata and index, return under chain of custody. Remote with DC days, contingent on award.
$90–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Legal & Military Justice Data Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our work on military justice, JAG data, and legal decision support correct on the law, the process, and what a judge advocate would actually accept.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Navy Technical Data & IETM Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our work on Navy technical manuals, interactive electronic technical manuals, and maintenance data honest — so what we build matches how a sailor actually uses it.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Federal Cost Volume & Pricing Analyst
Build the cost volume that wins — rates, basis of estimate and the Government's own spreadsheet filled in correctly, priced to be competitive and defensible at the same time.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Federal Program & Project Manager (PMP)
Own the management volume and then the delivery — schedule, staffing, risk and reporting that a contracting officer reads as a program that will actually be run.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Export Control & ITAR Compliance Subject-Matter Expert
Keep our defense and research work inside the rules — ITAR and EAR jurisdiction, technical data handling and foreign national access decided before a proposal commits us to anything.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Technical Writer & Editor (Federal Deliverables)
Make our federal deliverables read the way an evaluator wants to read them — compliant, plain, consistent, and free of the small errors that cost points.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Commercialization & Customer Discovery Subject-Matter Expert
Turn our technical work into a transition story an agency believes — real customers, a real path to market, and the evidence a commercialization reviewer scores.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Financial Management, Audit & Grants Compliance Subject-Matter Expert
Keep the money side of our federal work correct — allowable costs, cost share, indirect rates and reporting that survive an audit and a grants officer.
$60–$100/hr1099Remote (U.S.)Financial-Crime & Asset-Tracing Analyst, Latin America
Follow the money behind fuel theft and smuggling in Ecuador: how proceeds move, where asset-tracing and forfeiture referrals break down, and what the Financial Analysis Unit and prosecutors would need to act.
$80–$130/hr1099Remote (U.S.) NEWPrivacy Engineer (HIPAA, FERPA, PIA and De-identification)
Design privacy into the system: HIPAA Safe Harbor and Expert Determination, FERPA and state student-data law, Privacy Act PIAs and privacy-preserving record linkage.
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Precision Federal is a Christian-owned small business. The founder is a Christian, and the company is run on Christian principles: every number we publish is real, every claim we make is verifiable, and the work is done with excellence as service to God. We welcome all qualified applicants who want to build excellent things inside that culture.
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