Job Type: Full-Time
Workplace Type: Onsite
Clearance: Minimum TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a CI Poly
Must be a U.S. CitizenBenefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.
Job SummaryCastalia Systems is seeking a Physicist, Seniorto support to the government's all source intelligence analysis of foreign weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs, to include the proliferation and procurement of WMD-applicable materials, technologies, and knowledge, and provides intelligence analysis support to the entire spectrum of DoD and USG counter-WMD efforts.
Roles and ResponsibilitiesA qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:- 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.
Required Qualifications- Meets all qualifications and skills required of a Mid, plus:
- 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 Qualifications- At least 8 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
- Bachelor'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.
- An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, for a total of 12 years of experience in the specific labor category, may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.
Physical Requirements/Work Environment- Typical office environment.
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