Senior Verification, Validation, and Test Engineer

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.com for more details.

Arcfield is seeking a highly skilled Senior Verification, Validation, and Test (VV&T) Engineer to support an Enterprise Space Communications Architecture mission. This role offers the chance to join our well-established, tenured Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) team, contributing to the planning, acquisition, and integration of next-generation space and ground-based systems.

The VV&T team is responsible for technical support for the planning and execution of verification, validation, and test activities for national assets, associated ground segments, and mission processing systems within the enterprise. As a senior technical member of our systems engineering integration and test team, you will play a critical role in ensuring mission success through rigorous verification, validation, and test activities across enterprise-level, system-level, and acquisition milestones. You will interface with diverse stakeholders-including customers, developers, and contractors-while helping drive technical readiness, system performance, and mission assurance. You will execute tests and oversee readiness events, lead project planning, and assess schedule feasibility and risk, all to ensure successful mission operations.

This position requires an understanding of the Intelligence Community and customer domain, along with a strong focus on core systems engineering processes in support of end-to-end mission and services closure. Arcfield has supported these critical programs for over 40 years, and has a proven track record of providing outstanding customer support with consistently high award fees.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide technical and programmatic advisory services during program execution of communication architectures.

• Develop and author test strategies, plans, and reports to validate system performance against specifications.

• Execute and oversee enterprise, system, and acquisition-level test activities, including readiness events and regression testing.

• Analyze test data to identify trends, discrepancies, and opportunities to improve performance, efficiency, and usability.

• Lead acquisition systems integration tasks, to include regression testing, and provide deliverables in support of the integration of the products, processes, subsystems, and components of complex enterprise systems.

• Regularly interact with customers, developers, and supporting contractors for technical information exchange, planning, and execution.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to balance mission priorities, user needs, and program constraints.

Required Skills:

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

• Bachelor's (or equivalent) in engineering-related field with 12 to 15 years of experience, or Master's in engineering-related field with 10 to 13 years of experience, or Ph.D. in engineering related field with 10+ years of experience.

• Demonstrated experience providing Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) support within the Intelligence Community or related domains.

• Strong background in space/ground communications system testing, systems engineering, and VV&T.

• Proven ability to author test strategies and plans, execute tests, analyze results, and report findings.

• Familiarity with automated test tools and interpreting outputs.

• Expertise in evaluating and integrating complex systems, identifying discrepancies, and recommending corrective actions.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical information into clear, logical, and concise summaries.

• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills for effective customer and team engagement.

• Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and committed to quality, accuracy, and continuous improvement.

• Self-motivated with strong initiative and follow-through.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products for planning and communication.

Desired Skills:

• Prior experience with GEOINT and/or SIGINT systems, and/or mission operations.

• Experience with cross-domain solutions.

• Experience with AWS services and infrastructure.

• Familiarity with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) / Digital Engineering.

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