Job ID:  1002
Title:  Senior Systems Engineer

Location:  Chantilly, VA
Schedule:  Full-time
Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time
Security Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly

Teleworking:  No
 

Description

Arcturus Space & Intelligence is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team.  Position is for generalized engineering, analysis and operations support to a variety of Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) customers. We support the development of space-based national security-related systems. The position is for an engineer to provide systems engineering and technical advisory (SETA) services to an IC customer. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

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- Gather client needs and define system requirements, concept of operation, capabilities and its architecture

- Provide technical review and assessment of systems and its technologies

- Advise on issues of feasibility and applicability of relevant new technologies to future architectures

- Analyze architecture alternatives for optimum system performance

- Prepare deliverables that include analysis, presentations, documentation and recommendations 

- Provide technical support to acquisition, source selection and programmatic processes

- Develop acquisition support documents, conducting verification and gap analyses 

- Develop documents and briefings to communicate work or study status, brief government and industry as required 

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Qualifications

- Must have an active TS/SCI with poly 

- Bachelors degree with minimum of 15 years of relevant experience or 12 years with Masters 

- Must have broad systems engineering background with its understanding of its principles and theories.

- Strong technical understanding of systems engineering and integration of complex systems and subsystems 

- Excellent communication skills

- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite

- Problem-solving skills 

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Desired Qualifications

- Ability to manipulate and maintain large and complex models and analyses
- Familiarity with intelligence organizations, disciplines, systems and processes 
- Demonstrated understanding of the intelligence mission
- Experience performing modeling & simulation and comparative analysis