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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Penetration Test Engineer - **Company:** Arcfield, Inc. - **Location:** United States - **Salary:** $103,142.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Software System Penetration Testing, Formal Verification, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Integration, Reliability of Systems, SC Clearance - **Published:** September 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9131850/principal-penetration-test-engineer ## About the Role * BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5 * The ability to obtain/maintain a Secret clearance ## Description * Considered an emerging authority, who applies extensive technical expertise. * Develops technical solutions to complex problems. * Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignment. * Synthesizes customer contractual needs, requirements, and technical, schedule and cost constraints into solutions for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems into operations to deliver enterprise capabilities. * Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and resources required for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems. * Establishes standards, practices, and procedures for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems and enterprise capabilities, and coordinates with stakeholders. * Evaluates enterprise capabilities, architectures, system design concepts, requirements, risks and opportunities, and processes for integration, test, evaluation and transition impacts. * Designs, develops, and implements 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. * Reviews, evaluates and derives requirements for testability. * Ensures systems and enterprise capabilities comply with requirements and standards through formal verification methods. * Generates system requirement and enterprise capability verification approaches and customer acceptance criteria. * Participates in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirements compliance through verification and validation. * Develops and directs preparation for and execution of comprehensive test & evaluation plans, procedures and schedules which verify and validate enterprise capabilities, system requirements, performance and operability. * Coordinates system integration, test, evaluation and transition activities with other organizations. * Conducts readiness for system integration, test, evaluation and transition activities. * Compiles data and defines changes required in testing configurations, testing procedures, testing processes, or new testing requirements. * Implements testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes. * Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics. * Performs analysis and evaluations of systems under test. * Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. * Performs analysis of test results and prepares comprehensive system evaluation reports and risk assessments. * Evaluates discrepancy reports and performs integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes affecting systems and enterprise capabilities. * Provides direct, interfacing support to the customer for system integration, test, evaluation and transition activities. * Monitors for continual process improvement and lessons learned, and reports to management periodically. ## Related Videos - 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