Space/Ground Test & Analytics Lead

Overview

Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation’s most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers’ missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Responsibilities

Combine your technical skills with big picture thinking and make an impact on national security space missions. Develop the right systems for their mission with your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications. Be an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution.

 

Arcfield is supporting the U.S. Space Force develop and deploy the next generation of resilient capabilities to deliver critical information to our warfighters and quickly win and even prevent future wars. You will develop test and evaluation strategies (TESs), test and evaluation master plans (TEMPs), system test and verification plans (STVPs), detailed test plans and reports, verification plans and reports, and deficiency reports. You will lead and support testing at the system of systems, system, segment, and element level. You will exercise your skills by researching new requirements, technologies, and threats and using innovative test methodologies and tools to verify remote sensing systems to meet technical requirements and user needs.

 

Come join Arcfield and solve our countries most daunting challenges with innovation!

• Be the recognized expert who designs, researches and develops highly advanced applications, which may result in new capabilities
• Synthesize customer needs, requirements, and technical, schedule and cost constraints into solutions for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems into operations to deliver enterprise capabilities.
• Plan and arrange the labor, schedules, and resources required for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems.
• Establish standards, practices, and procedures for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems and enterprise capabilities, and coordinates with stakeholders.
• Evaluate enterprise capabilities, architectures, system design concepts, requirements, risks and opportunities, and processes for integration, test, evaluation and transition impacts.
• Design, develop, and implement test and evaluation strategies, plans and methods to assure reliability of systems in conjunction with system specifications and defined enterprise capabilities, and integrates system and enterprise elements together so they work as a whole.

Qualifications

Required:

• BS 12-15, MS 10-13, PhD 10+
• Must Possess and be able to Maintain TS/SCI clearance
• 10+ years of experience performing systems engineering, integration, and testing for space-related Major Defense Acquisition Programs
• 5+ years of experience supporting Government Developmental Test and Evaluation for space and ground systems
• 5+ years of experience working in a collaborative team environment developing test strategies, plans, reports, briefings, participation in test execution, verification or analysis
• Knowledge of systems engineering standards, including IEEE 15288.1 and IEEE 15288.2
• Ability to define, develop, maintain, and execute large scale system test plans and overarching test and evaluation strategy documents, including Test and Evaluation Strategy (TES), Test and Evaluation master Plans (TEMP), System Integration Test Plan (SITP), Enterprise Verification Plan (EVP), Verification Cross Reference Matrices (VCRM), and Requirements Verification Files (RVFs)
• Ability to communicate and establish collaborative relationships with government clients, Federally Funded Research and Developmental Centers (FFRDC), and associate contractor teammates to achieve program goals
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or Physics

Desired:

• Experience performing systems engineering, integration, and test on space-based remote sensing systems
• Experience with portfolio and program verification, interoperability, or certification
• Experience with planning, executing, and reporting on Lead Developmental Test Organization or Operational Test Authority (OTA) Organizations and related activities 
• Experience with planning and executing program reviews throughou