Senior Physicist, Defense Intelligence & WMD Analysis

castaliasystems; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

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 foreign WMD programs, including proliferation and procurement of related materials, technologies, and knowledge, for DoD and USG counter-WMD efforts. The role requires TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly, U.S.

citizenship, and onsite work in Reston, VA. Responsibilities include research, modeling, and collaboration with engineering disciplines to document findings and produce analytical

Qualifications

• Meets all qualifications and skills required of a Mid, plus:
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.
• Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrates ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

Responsibilities

• Supports defense analytical requirements with enhanced scientific research, capability / limitation analysis, reverse engineering analysis / characterizations, facility and vulnerability assessments. This includes, but is not limited to, applied and interdisciplinary fields of physics such as astrophysics, biophysics, directed energy weapons, and / or geophysics.
• Conducts independent research, technical writing, modeling, and overseeing / consulting with allied engineering disciplines on, but not limited to, the areas of fiber optics, acoustics, semiconductors, lasers, weapons development and testing and / or identifying the characteristics of hard and deeply buried targets.
• Prepares products to describe and document findings and activities.

Job description

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

citizenship, and onsite work in Reston, VA. Responsibilities include research, modeling, and collaboration with engineering disciplines to document findings and produce analytical