Onsite Senior Physicist: Defense Intelligence & WMD

Castalia Systems; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401k matching

generous PTO

paid holidays

professional training opportunities

pet insurance

Job summary

Castalia Systems is seeking a Senior Physicist to support the government’s all-source intelligence analysis of WMD programs, including proliferation and procurement of related materials and technologies. The role involves providing intelligence analysis support across the DoD and USG counter-WMD efforts. The position requires TS/SCI clearance with a CI Poly, U.S.

citizenship, and is onsite in Reston, VA. Castalia offers benefits such as medical/dental/vision, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid

Qualifications

• Meets all qualifications and skills required of a Mid, plus:
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of labor category activities to meet mission requirements.
• Mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursuit of developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.
• Ability to define comprehensive, new or unique research approaches for rigorous assessments addressing high-level tasks.
• In-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments and tradecraft standards.

Responsibilities

• Supports defense analytical requirements with enhanced scientific research, capability/limitation analysis, reverse engineering analysis/characterizations, facility and vulnerability assessments.
• C conducts independent research, technical writing, modeling, and oversees/consults with allied engineering disciplines on areas such as fiber optics, acoustics, semiconductors, lasers, weapons development and testing.
• Prepares products to describe and document findings and activities.

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Castalia Systems is seeking a Senior Physicist to support the government’s all-source intelligence analysis of WMD programs, including proliferation and procurement of related materials and technologies. The role involves providing intelligence analysis support across the DoD and USG counter-WMD efforts. The position requires TS/SCI clearance with a CI Poly, U.S.

citizenship, and is onsite in Reston, VA. Castalia offers benefits such as medical/dental/vision, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid