Systems Engineer

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

This Systems Engineer position is responsible for technical oversight and coordination of the design, development, and implementation of complex systems, ensuring they meet user needs and requirements. The System Engineer plays a crucial role on the project team by working closely with stakeholders, users, project managers, and technical teams to ensure that the system meets the requirements and is delivered on time and within budget

General Job responsibilities include:

• Ability to ensure requirements traceability throughout a project lifecycle and ensuring that requirements are well constructed, bounded, verifiable, and are properly validated with stakeholders
• Ability to logically and systematically convert customer or product requirements to high-level system requirements. Use those requirements to estimate schedule, cost, and resources required to do the work
• Ability to fully perform tasks requiring the collecting, compiling, evaluating, and publishing of information and statistical data
• Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals
• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions

Key responsibilities include:

• Requirements Generation and Traceability: Eliciting, analyzing, and documenting user requirements, and defining and decomposing system requirements down to design specifications to ensure that the final product meets the user's needs
• Testing and Verification and Validation: Ensuring that system testing verifies the system meets requirements and satisfies the needs of the user and/or primary stakeholder.
• Interface and Integration: Develops standards and coordinates the integration of the system across multiple disciplines and with existing systems. This may include the development of a concept of operations and specific, non-functional requirements to ensure the system can be efficiently operated and maintained. It may also entail coordinating between technical and non-technical teams working on different aspects of the system.
• Trade Studies: Conducting analyses to evaluate different design options, assessing their feasibility, and recommending the best approach based on factors such as performance, cost, schedule, and risk
• Project Definition and Outcomes: Defining the project outcomes, system architecture, identifying key performance parameters, and assisting a project manager to estimate the schedule, cost, and resources necessary to successfully develop, acquire, and implement the system

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• Degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
• Analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts/theories for various projects
• Technology Design - Adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs
• Ability to logically and systematically convert customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
• Ability to analyze and study complex system requirements, for example:
  • Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
  • Apply the concept of operations set of disciplines for the planning, analysis, design, and construction of information systems across a major sector of the organization
  • Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology
  • Experience with activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control and risk analysis, and modern business methods and performance measurement techniques

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment
• Ability to coordinate with engineers, systems analysts, programmers, technicians, scientists, and top-level managers in the coordination and planning of programs
• Ability to apply critical thinking to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.