What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field Service Engineer III - Security Clearance Required position at Arcfield?
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
We are seeking a Telemetry-focused Field Service Engineer to join our team in Huntsville, AL supporting our DOD customers as part of Arcfield’s Hypersonics Business Unit.
Arcfield’s Hypersonics Test & Evaluation (T&E) unit provides support services and solutions for ballistic and hypersonic test missions at DoD, NASA, and other agency ranges around the world including broad ocean areas. We deliver mission planning, logistics, network and systems engineering, telemetry, data and voice communications, and cybersecurity support. Our team of mission focused, collaboration minded, enthusiastic professionals bring the benefits of their unique and diverse skill sets to bear on some of the most engaging and difficult challenges available in the missile testing community.
In this position, you will have the opportunity to work with a team responsible for deploying, maintaining, troubleshooting, and integrating range instrumentation systems to support our Army and Navy customers in meeting their T&E objectives.
- Support local and off-site testing operations, including configure, operate, maintain and test computer-based electronic data reduction and telemetry equipment used to acquire, process and display flight-test data both in real-time and post-mission to support flight-testing.
- Perform other technical functions as required, to include system installation, modifications, troubleshooting and corrective actions.
- Applies practical knowledge of electronics / electrical engineering to problems encountered in the design and installation of flight test instrumentation e.g., accelerometers, strain gauges, thermocouples, rate gyros, and pressure transducers, pulse-coded modulation (PCM) data acquisition systems, and data reduction hardware (e.g., bit syncs and decoms).
- Responsible for the planning, designs and directs the installation, calibration, and operation of ground based and airborne flight test instrumentation.
- Support various types of flight testing by attending planning meetings, design reviews, and readiness committees.
- Assist flight test engineers in analyzing test data for the purpose of ensuring data accuracy and quality.
Travel is frequent and extensive (CONUS and OCONUS), and work is generally performed at customer sites. Trip durations are dependent on customer test mission schedules which can change with short notice. Travel typically lasts between 2 and 4 weeks. Frequency of trips is dependent on test mission schedules but generally range between 4 and 8 trips per year.
Qualifications
BS 5-7 Years, MS 3-5, PhD 0-2
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EEO Statement
Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.
