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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS did Computer Engineering while his cousins did CS.  (Stuff edited out here) FWIW, my DS is teaching old people pickleball for $70/hr, while he is looking for jobs.[/quote]

Tell him to apply for a job at NIST in G'burg (in their IT Laboratory or Communications Laboratory) or at ARL in Adelphi, or NSWC at Carderock, or Mitre in McLean, or Aerospace in Chantilly, or NRL in DC (in their TEW or Information Technology divisions).

If the civil service organizations post any position publicly, they often are required to hire the least unqualified applicant. This often means they will not post an opening until they have at least one qualified applicant. Put another way, sending a resume with a polite one page cover letter to the HR folks at those civil service organizations is worthwhile, even if no opening is publicly posted.

If he knows Verilog/VHDL, which is huge shortage (especially for Altera or Xilinx FPGAs) be very sure that is clearly on the resume, along with the toolchain used (e.g., Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, or whatever).  Experience with Unix and C programming also are in huge demand.

The ISPs along the Silver Line are nearly always looking for entry level Network Engineers.

All of those places are hiring computer engineers, though US citizenship is mandatory at nearly all (list it explicitly on the CV at the bottom) and the pending annual government shutdown (thanks to Congress) might briefly freeze hiring.

Pro-Tip: while a computer engineer is the GS series 854, most CompE degree holders also took enough EE or ECE hours to qualify as an Electronics Engineer, which is GS series 855. So look for both kinds of jobs.

If this weren't an anonymous job board and I had a resume, I am confident I know several people who would be interested enough to interview him. The jobs openings do exist. [/quote]

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