Systems Engineer (Technical Integration & Analysis)

Arcfield; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Disability Insurance

Retirement and Savings

Learning and Development opportunities

Wellness programs

Job summary

Arcfield is seeking a Systems Engineer to support the development and integration of advanced space-based sensing and mission capabilities for the US Space Force and national security. The role calls for leading engineering activities across disciplines and delivering clear, actionable engineering products and recommendations.

The successful candidate will collaborate with senior leadership, government customers, and multidisciplinary teams to own engineering threads, perform system-level

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in a related field.
• Experience with systems engineering and mission engineering.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and communicate conclusions.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support assigned systems and mission engineering threads across the system lifecycle.
• Develop mission concepts, requirements, architectures, and system-level products.
• Integrate inputs from multiple teams and government documentation for a coherent system-level understanding.
• Perform system-level analyses, identify risks, interfaces, and impacts to mission objectives.
• Engage with government customers and stakeholders to clarify questions and communicate findings.
• Facilitate technical working groups, reviews, and engineering discussions.
• Support Senior Mission Engineers in aligning requirements, architecture, and mission objectives.
• Develop candidate approaches, evaluate tradeoffs, and assess system and mission impacts.
• Monitor activities and identify issues needing technical attention or coordination.
• Improve engineering approaches, documentation, and processes.

Skills

Systems engineering

Mission engineering

Technical integration

System-level analysis

Government customer engagement

Technical communication

Education

BS / MS / PhD requirements

Job description

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

• 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: $110,204.91Max: $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.