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# Junior SBST Systems / Mission Engineer

- **Company:** Arcfield, Inc.
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $75,347
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, JIRA, Software Documentation, MATLAB, Software Tools, Systems Architecture, Modeling and Simulation
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3478150305&tx=KJ6969FFJ&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* BS 2-4 Years, MS 0-2 or HS 8-10
 * Technical
degree
or
relevant
experience
including internships or early-career professional experience.

 * Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills.
 * Self-directed, motivated, and willing to take initiative in an environment where requirements and priorities can evolve.
 * Ability to work effectively with technical leads, teammates, customers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Desired Experience & Interests

 * Experience or interest in systems engineering and mission engineering.
 * Knowledge of space systems, sensors, RF/radar, and satellite communications.
 * Familiarity with ground systems and mission processing.
 * Experience or interest in modeling and simulation, data analysis, and integration and test.
 * Familiarity with MATLAB, STK, MBSE tools, DOORS, Jira, or similar engineering tools is highly desirable.

## Description

to support the development and integration of advanced space-based sensing and mission capabilities supporting national security and Joint

US

Force

s

. This is an opportunity for an early-career engineer to work on complex, mission-critical systems where rapid learning, technical curiosity, and a results-oriented mindset are highly valued.

The successful candidate will work alongside experienced systems and mission engineers, technical leads, and government customers to understand mission

objectives

, translate requirements into engineering activities, and support the integration of complex systems and capabilities. The role will involve working across the full system lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, modeling and simulation, analysis, integration and test, communications, sensors, ground systems, and mission operations.

Responsibilities

 * Become familiar with customer
objectives
, mission concepts, system documentation, requirements, and program processes.

 * Support systems engineering and mission engineering activities under the direction of technical leads.
 * Contribute to requirements development, decomposition, traceability, system architecture, and/or integration activities.
 * Support analysis, modeling and simulation, mission planning, and/or system performance assessments.
 * Work across space, ground, communications, sensing, and mission-processing elements of complex systems.
 * Communicate technical findings,
identify
issues, and proactively propose solutions.

 * Learn
new technologies
, tools, and mission systems quickly while progressively taking on greater responsibility.