Systems Engineer (Technical Integration & Analysis)

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 a 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 intended for an experienced systems engineer who can operate across multiple technical disciplines, lead assigned engineering activities, and help integrate complex technical information into clear, actionable engineering products and recommendations. 

 

The successful candidate will work closely with senior mission and systems engineering leadership, government customers, and multidisciplinary technical teams. This individual will take ownership of assigned engineering threads, perform system-level analysis, integrate inputs from multiple technical sources, and help ensure that engineering products and recommendations remain aligned with mission objectives and customer needs. 

 

The role provides an opportunity for an experienced engineer to operate beyond an individual technical discipline and contribute to the broader mission engineering effort. The ideal candidate can understand complex systems, recognize relationships across technical information, organize ambiguous problems, and help drive engineering teams toward technically sound and mission-relevant outcomes. 

 

Responsibilities 

• Support or Lead assigned systems and mission engineering threads across the system lifecycle, coordinating technical inputs, activities, actions, and deliverables. 
• Support the development and assessment of mission concepts, requirements, architectures, technical roadmaps, and system-level engineering products. 
• Integrate technical information from multiple engineering teams, requirements sources, architecture products, analyses, and government documentation to develop a coherent system-level understanding. 
• Perform system-level technical assessments and analysis, identifying dependencies, gaps, inconsistencies, risks, interfaces, and potential impacts to mission objectives. 
• Work directly with government customers, users, technical stakeholders, and engineering teams to understand priorities, clarify technical questions, and communicate engineering findings. 
• Participate in and, when appropriate, facilitate technical working groups, reviews, user engagements, and engineering discussions. 
• Support the Senior Mission Engineers in integrating outputs across multiple engineering threads and ensuring consistency among requirements, architecture, analysis, and mission objectives. 
• Support technical solutioning by helping develop candidate approaches, evaluate tradeoffs, and assess system and mission impacts. 
• Monitor assigned engineering activities and proactively identify issues requiring additional technical attention or stakeholder coordination. 
• Help improve engineering approaches, documentation, and processes when opportunities are identified.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5
• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• Demonstrated experience in systems engineering, mission engineering, technical integration, system-level analysis, or related disciplines. 
• Experience leading or owning technical engineering activities within multidisciplinary teams. 
• Experience working directly with government customers, users, technical stakeholders, or mission organizations. 
• Strong ability to synthesize complex technical information and communicate conclusions to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Excellent written, verbal, briefing, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills. 
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple engineering activities, and adapt to changing technical and mission priorities. 

Desired Experience & Attributes 

• Experience integrating technical inputs from multiple systems, organizations, engineering disciplines, or documentation sources. 
• Experience developing or assessing mission concepts, CONOPS, requirements, architectures, technical assessments, roadmaps, or decision-support products. 
• Experience with system-of-systems engineering and understanding interfaces and dependencies across complex capabilities. 
• Experience with integration, verification, test, technical baselines, system performance assessments, or lifecycle engineering. 
• Broad understanding of space systems, sensors/RF/radar, satellite communications, ground systems, mission processing, data systems, mission operations, or related national security capabilities. 
• Experience supporting customer engagements, technical reviews, and multidisciplinary working groups. 
• Demonstrated ability to recognize patterns and relationships across complex technical information and turn them into actionable engineering conclusions. 

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: $110,204.91 Max: $191,624.96 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.