Senior Systems Engineer

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:

Arcfield is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to support the development and integration of advanced space-based sensing and mission capabilities supporting US Space Force and national security. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer who enjoys working through complex technical problems, translating system-level objectives into actionable engineering requirements, and ensuring technical solutions are developed, integrated, and verified in accordance with mission needs and system-level objectives. 

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary mission engineering team, providing experienced systems engineering support across the full engineering lifecycle. This individual will support requirements for decomposition and coordination, helping translate requirements into actionable engineering activities. The candidate will work across multiple technical disciplines to assess engineering products, review technical documentation, identify gaps and inconsistencies, and help ensure technical solutions remain aligned with system requirements and overall mission objectives. 

This role requires a strong foundation in traditional systems engineering processes and a thorough understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle, including the engineering V-model. The ideal candidate has experience working across requirements development, integration, verification and validation, with the technical depth to review engineering documentation, understand system-level implications. 

Responsibilities 

• Support systems engineering activities across the full system lifecycle, from requirements development, verification, validation, and operations. 

• Lead and support requirements decomposition and allocation, translating mission-level and system-level requirements into lower-level component and functional requirements. 

• Develop, review, and maintain system and subsystem requirements, specifications, verification criteria, requirements traceability matrices, and other technical baseline documentation. 

• Support the development and execution of engineering activities aligned with the systems engineering V-model, ensuring appropriate relationships between requirements, design, implementation, integration, verification, and validation. 

• Support engineering threads by tracking technical activities, dependencies, deliverables, risks, issues, and interfaces across engineering teams. 

• Review and analyze technical documentation, including system specifications, engineering design documents, interface control documents (ICDs), architecture products, technical assessments, and integration plans. 

• Evaluate technical documentation for completeness, consistency, technical accuracy, requirements alignment, and adherence to established system design and engineering objectives. 

• Analyze requirements and technical products from multiple sources to identify gaps, inconsistencies, ambiguities, dependencies, and potential impacts to system performance or integration. 

• Identify and communicate technical risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, providing recommendations to support engineering decisions and maintain technical alignment. 

• Develop and maintain technical briefings, engineering assessments, requirements documentation, review comments, and other systems engineering products. 

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications 

• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, Phd 5-7 years of relevant experience. 

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or another relevant technical discipline, or equivalent technical experience. 

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph. 

• Experience in systems engineering, requirements engineering, system integration, or a closely related engineering discipline. 

• Experience with traditional systems engineering processes and the systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements development, decomposition, allocation, traceability, design, integration, verification, and validation. 

• Strong understanding of the systems engineering V-model and the relationships between system requirements, subsystem design, integration, verification, and validation activities. 

• Experience reviewing, developing, or maintaining technical documentation, including requirements specifications, system design documents, interface documentation, engineering assessments, and verification products. 

• Strong understanding of requirements traceability, interface management, technical baselines, and system-level dependencies. 

• Strong analytical, written, verbal, briefing, and interpersonal communication skills. 

• Ability to work independently, exercise sound engineering judgment, and coordinate effectively with technical leads, subject matter experts, and government stakeholders. 

 

Desired Experience 

• Experience supporting complex space systems, national security systems, mission systems, or other large-scale systems engineering programs. 

• Experience developing, decomposing, allocating, analyzing, and managing system and subsystem requirements. 

• Experience supporting systems engineering technical reviews, including SRRs, SFRs, PDRs, CDRs, TRRs, SVRs, and other lifecycle reviews. 

• Experience reviewing and assessing technical specifications, system design descriptions, interface control documents (ICDs), architecture products, verification plans, and other engineering documentation. 

• Familiarity with space systems, sensors/RF/radar, satellite communications, ground systems, mission processing, data systems, and mission operations. 

• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML, requirements management, and engineering tools such as MagicDraw, DOORS, DOORS Next, Jira, or similar platforms. 

• Experience developing and maintaining requirements traceability matrices, verification cross-reference matrices, interface documentation, technical baselines, and engineering review products. 

• Experience identifying requirements gaps, technical risks, design inconsistencies, and integration challenges across complex systems and systems-of-systems environments. 

• Ability to understand technical details across multiple engineering disciplines and translate those details into system-level engineering assessments and recommendations. 

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: $135,035.83 Max: $234,801.11 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.