Arcfield Overview:
Arcfield was purpose-built to relentlessly protect the nation and its allies from today’s national security threats. We have nearly 70 years of proven expertise and excel in space superiority, hypersonic defense and nuclear deterrence, digital transformation, and surface and undersea warfare domains. Our solution areas include space mission engineering, atmospheric science, digital engineering, mission assurance, and advances in modeling and simulation that together with our enterprise-wide adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, lead to better systems and timely, reliable decision-making. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 18 North American offices, Arcfield employs 2,200 engineers, scientists, analysts, IT specialists and other professionals who challenge the status quo to deliver an efficient technological advantage to our national security and defense partners.
Responsibilities:
We are seeking a Senior Level Physicist to support our Navy DoD customer in research, development, testing, evaluation, and analysis at our Colorado Springs, CO office.
For more than 65 years, Arcfield has supported our Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) customer by performing research, development, analysis, modeling and simulation, and testing to assess weapon system performance and qualify weapon systems for normal, hostile, and fratricide environments. We provide support in the areas of programmatic and systems engineering, technical engineering, scientific analysis, and operational systems support for Navy SSP’s Strategic Weapons Systems (SWS). We utilize both COTS and in-house developed software to deliver results of nuclear weapons effects to Navy SSP.
The physicist will perform scientific analysis and computational modeling to evaluate intrinsic, normal, hostile, and fratricide radiation environments and their effect on the SWS, as well as on personnel. The successful candidate will perform a wide range of tasks spanning radiation transport calculations, Hardening and Vulnerability (H&V) calculations, Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) calculations, hostile nuclear environment definition, and planning and assessment of radiation/electrical/mechanical testing. Position will require the use scientific and engineering simulation software, in particular radiation transport codes (e.g., MCNP, Attila, etc.), as well as with object-oriented programming languages (e.g., C++, Python, etc.).
This position will be responsible for the following:
- Contribute to team efforts in the completion of normal, hostile, and fratricide environment studies of reentry systems.
- Perform radiation transport calculations of free-field and internal dose levels in Navy systems.
- Perform intrinsic radiation studies for personnel safety.
- Compare and correlate radiation modeling results with experimental data.
- Perform Verification & Validation of simulation models and results.
- Assist in test planning and execution at radiation, electrical, and mechanical above ground test facilities.
- Work with software engineers to implement physics-based analysis models into maintainable software programs.
- Assist the customer in system planning, requirement definition, assessment, and qualification of current and future Navy weapon systems.
- Develop technical documentation and briefings.
- Develop technical reports capturing assumptions, inputs, outputs, and results.
- Develop and deliver presentations.
- Interface directly with the customer.
- Travel for meetings and customer interactions as required.
Physicist IV, I09, SRPHEI09
Qualifications:
- BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5 in Physics or Nuclear Engineering
- Ability to Obtain/Maintan a Top Secret Clearance
Equal Pay Act:
This is the projected compensation range for this position. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, Arcfield invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Arcfield ’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.
Min: $103,623.54
Max: $180,181.23
EEO Statement:
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.