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Reston, VA
Top Secret/SCI CI Polygraph
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
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Job Description
SENIOR PHYSICIST
Location: Reston, VA | Type: Full-Time | Clearance: Active TS/SCI CI Poly
Job Duties:
• 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.
Minimum Requirements:
• 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.
• Desired Experience: Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Desired Education: Master’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.
Why Cyntel Technologies?
Cyntel Technologies offers a competitive benefit package to include:
• Paid Holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Bereavement Leave
• Military Leave
• Medical Plan
• Dental Plan
• Vision
• 401K
• Life Insurance
What sets Cyntel Technologies apart is its commitment to mission continuity, experienced leadership, and long-term career growth. Our leadership team is made up of former military and intelligence professionals who understand the mission firsthand. At Cyntel, we directly support mission-critical intelligence operations across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, operating close to the customer to inform real-world decisions. For those transitioning from service, this means joining a stable, growing firm where your experience is respected, your voice is heard through direct access to senior leadership, and you have clear opportunities for upward mobility and continued impact.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
Location: Reston, VA | Type: Full-Time | Clearance: Active TS/SCI CI Poly
Job Duties:
• 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.
Minimum Requirements:
• 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.
• Desired Experience: Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Desired Education: Master’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.
Why Cyntel Technologies?
Cyntel Technologies offers a competitive benefit package to include:
• Paid Holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Bereavement Leave
• Military Leave
• Medical Plan
• Dental Plan
• Vision
• 401K
• Life Insurance
What sets Cyntel Technologies apart is its commitment to mission continuity, experienced leadership, and long-term career growth. Our leadership team is made up of former military and intelligence professionals who understand the mission firsthand. At Cyntel, we directly support mission-critical intelligence operations across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, operating close to the customer to inform real-world decisions. For those transitioning from service, this means joining a stable, growing firm where your experience is respected, your voice is heard through direct access to senior leadership, and you have clear opportunities for upward mobility and continued impact.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
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