Systems Engineer

Position Title: Systems Engineer 

Location: Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia 

Category: Funded

Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time 

Travel Required: N/A 

Shift: Day 

Remote Type: In-Office 

Clearance required: Top Secret clearance required 

Salary: $170,000 - $200,000 

Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!  

Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to provide requirements analysis, architecture, interface, systems integration, verification, advanced-manufacturing, and systems planning in support of industrial base and fifth shipyard decisions. 

Responsibilities: 

Systems Engineering and Requirements Analysis:  

• Apply systems engineering principles to defense industrial base programs, initiatives, and emerging requirements involving production capacity, suppliers, shipyards, infrastructure, workforce, data, technology, and investment.  

• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and maintain mission, operational, functional, performance, interface, data, and implementation requirements.  

• Decompose complex problems into manageable elements; identify dependencies, interfaces, constraints, assumptions, decision points, and measures of effectiveness.  

• Develop requirements matrices, system and process models, interface descriptions, functional architectures, workflows, use cases, roadmaps, and traceability products.  

• Evaluate whether proposed solutions, analytical methods, data sources, and implementation plans satisfy requirements and support intended mission outcomes.  

Industrial Base Integration and Analysis:  

• Integrate production, supplier, infrastructure, economic, financial, acquisition, workforce, and technology information into coherent baselines and analytical products.  

• Support assessments of production constraints, supplier capacity, industrial resilience, shipyard alternatives, infrastructure needs, technology adoption, investment priorities, and recovery initiatives.  

• Conduct alternatives analyses and trade studies addressing technical feasibility, operational utility, cost, schedule, risk, scalability, interoperability, and lifecycle considerations.  

• Identify gaps, redundancies, conflicting assumptions, data limitations, and cross-directorate impacts that could affect implementation or senior-leader decisions.  

• Develop performance measures and monitoring approaches that connect recommended actions to observable improvements in capacity, delivery, resilience, and execution.  

Management Analysis and Decision Support:  

• Analyze organizational structures, governance, processes, roles, responsibilities, and decision authorities affecting DASN DIB initiatives.  

• Facilitate working sessions with Government, program, engineering, acquisition, financial, data, and industry stakeholders to clarify requirements and resolve integration issues.  

• Prepare executive briefings, issue papers, decision memoranda, requirements packages, risk assessments, implementation plans, and responses to senior-leader questions.  

• Maintain action, risk, issue, dependency, and decision tracking; monitor implementation progress and elevate matters requiring Government direction.  

• Provide independent analysis while preserving Government responsibility for policy, requirements approval, funding, acquisition, source selection, and other inherently governmental decisions.  

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in systems engineering, engineering, industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, data science, mathematics, or a related discipline.  

• 10+ years’ experience in systems engineering, management analysis, engineering analysis, program analysis, defense acquisition, industrial base analysis, or a closely related field. 

• Demonstrated experience developing and managing requirements, performing functional or process analysis, evaluating alternatives, identifying interfaces and dependencies, and communicating technical findings.  

• Experience integrating information from multiple technical and organizational disciplines into defensible recommendations for complex programs or initiatives.  

• Working knowledge of systems engineering methods, requirements traceability, risk management, lifecycle analysis, process modeling, performance measurement, and implementation planning.  

• Experience preparing and presenting analytical products to senior Government or industry leaders and facilitating multidisciplinary stakeholder discussions.  

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and collaboration tools; ability to develop clear models, diagrams, matrices, dashboards, and executive-level products.  

• Active Top Secret Clearance required.  

Benefits: 

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance 

• ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)