What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Engineer position at Arcfield?
Overview
Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation’s most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers’ missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.
Responsibilities
Arcfield is looking for a SYSTEMS ENGINEER to join a skilled, highly respected, and long-standing team supporting Integration, Testing, Analysis, and User Outreach for operational and emerging systems. This position requires an understanding of the Intelligence Community and customer domain, along with a strong focus on Systems Engineering processes in support of operational mission execution. The successful candidate could support product evaluations, trade studies, new product initializations, and/or algorithm assessments. Familiarity with current GEOINT systems and products will be useful to develop, assess, and execute test and verification methodologies. Activities may include, but are not limited to:
- Perform analysis and evaluations of operational capabilities.
- Perform project management required for integrating, testing, and evaluating systems.
- Performing baseline assessment of system performance to support mission initializations.
- Operational monitoring of system performance over time.
- Algorithm assessment to quantify the performance of a product given desired mission application.
- Responding to anomalous mission behaviors and recommending possible causes and corrective actions.
Qualifications
Required:
- Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph
- Experience working in an operational environment and demonstrated knowledge of user needs.
- Experience in mission technical capabilities and system performance analysis and assessment.
- Understanding of the systems engineering life cycle to include independent testing and data verification.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills; demonstrated ability to clearly explain technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability and success working in team environments.
- Customer focused and capable of representing the customer in user outreach and familiarity training activities and community forums.
- Education: BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5
Desired:
- Understanding of the GEOINT enterprise TCPED process.
- Experience working in a DoD or IC operational environment.
- Experience working on Product Initialization teams.
- Understanding of Machine Learning and Neural Network algorithms.
- Experience developing engineering code (e.g. C, Python, Matlab, IDL) to solve hard problems and create processes for repeatable results.
EEO Statement
EEO
Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.
