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Material Systems Engineer

Full Time

Chantilly VA 20151 USA

Posted 03/14/2025

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Responsibilities

Arcfield is looking for a highly skilled Material Systems Engineer proficient in systems engineering and materials analysis. The successful candidate should be knowledgeable about various materials creation to improve Sponsor’s system quality, production costs or functionality.

 

Duties

• Develop well-documented, actionable, measurable, testable, traceable, requirements to identify needs or opportunities, and defined to a level of detail sufficient for system design.
• Support development and allocation of system requirements to system components and maintain traceability between user and component-level system requirements.
• Develop SOWs and associated requirements documents.
• Identify and maintain awareness of capabilities for materials to support intelligence analysis.
• Provide initial analysis of materials using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, develop analytic judgements such as relevance or vulnerabilities, and prepare briefings/reports documenting the methodology used and the results obtained.
• Develop new communication system design concepts that are consistent with architectural guidance and industry best practices and analyze the cost, schedule, and performance implications of these design concepts.
• Design and support integration of material
• Assist with the assessment of development system design and implementation deliverables.
• Discover and forecast material capabilities and products advancing mission capabilities.
• Scout and perform market analysis assessing the potential of new products, support technology transfer and adoption.
• Provide independent assessment of projects regarding technical risk including risk definition, assessment, prioritizing, and mitigation.
• Review technical challenges, propose recommended courses of action and document.
• Provide technical expertise providing detailed understanding of current systems and potential system improvements; may involve modeling, prototyping.
• Apply techniques and methods for technology development and efforts at all stages of the life cycle management process.
• Conduct investigative activities to improve existing products or procedures.
• Provide highly specialized knowledge and expertise to support requirements or issues related to threats and vulnerability, policy and regulations, intelligence, and optimizing organizational processes and needs.
• Collaborates with developers, fellow engineers, project managers, Sponsors and other stakeholders to understand the requirements and scope of material

Qualifications

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5
• Design aptitude with strong attention to details is required.
• Knowledge of chemistry, physics, mathematics and natural sciences to develop ideas for new materials.
• Ability to conduct experiments to determine material properties/capabilities, limitations and usefulness.
• At least 4 years of experience of material systems engineering.
• Experience with designing and directing the testing of processing procedures
• Thorough understanding of monitoring how materials perform, and evaluating how materials deteriorate.
• Communicate effectively with team members, managers, sponsors and business partners throughout the project lifecycle (project updates, scope changes, challenges, date changes).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience in coding languages such as Modbus and R and support the integration of products.

EEO Statement

EEO

 

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.comfor more details

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Location Chantilly, VA, 20151, United States

Categories Software & Systems Development

Sec Clearances Top Secret/SCI with Full-scope Polygraph

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Job Code 2024-6042

Material Systems Engineer

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