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 Program Description This opportunity provides SETA (Systems Engineering Technical Advisor) & SE&I (Systems Engineering & Integration) services to an IC customer with a focus on assured space communications and supporting IT infrastructure. This is primarily broken into three major divisions including engineering, acquisition, and mission operations. Engineering support focuses on the end-to-end processes for managing programs, including readiness, configuration management, integrated master schedule, systems analysis, future studies and innovations. Acquisition support is focused on helping government COTRs in all aspects of managing development contracts to deliver capabilities that meet requirements. Mission operations roles include the support to integrating new capabilities into operations and leading anomalies response teams when issues arise. Specific Position Description This position is contingent on winning the FALSTAFF competition. This is a senior engineering position focused on the client's future mission strategies, next generation advancements and new mission areas. The work will involve communicating with system users to identify future requirements and needed capabilities and then develop plans and strategies to fill the gaps and meet those requirements through innovation, leveraging of future enterprise infrastructures and joint collaborations with other government entities to promote and advance the FALSTAFF client's mission. As needed, this position will support special studies to evaluate future potential technologies that could be used to advance the client's mission. Additional duties include facilitating, tracking, and promoting innovation ideas from across the client's organization, which will lead to improved performance and/or more efficiency. * Considered a recognized authority within the company. * Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative. * Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. * Using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle. * Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics. * Ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods. * Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements. * Establishes and coordinates development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development. * Designs interfaces and brings system elements together so they work as a whole. * Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. * Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements. * Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts. * Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower level detailed requirements. * Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation. * Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures. * Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements. Qualifications Required: * BS 10-12, MS 8-10, Phd 5-7
* Relevant Experience: 10 to 12 years with STEM MS in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical degree (SME position). * Must POSSESS and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance, with Polygraph * 5 years of relevant experience in technical innovation planning and future strategy development for the NUO/FALSTAFF government agency. * The ability to work well within a team of engineers. * Demonstrated success in working with government customers. Desired: * MS in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or Computer Science. * 5 years' experience supporting the FALSTAFF client's technical innovation projects, special studies * 10 years' experience supporting the development of RF based satellite communications related systems. * Prior experience as a SETA with FALSTAFF IC agency customer working user engagement. * Prior experience with digital signal processing 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.