Principal Engineering Advisor with Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Help the Front Office assess technical efforts not only for scientific novelty, but also for engineering coherence, feasibility, scalability, integration risk, transition realism, and strategic value.
• Senior individual contributor who can provide high-value technical evaluation, strategic analysis, and decision support directly to the Office Director (OD), using a strong engineering mindset to assess complex technical concepts, portfolios, performers, and opportunities.
• Serve as a Principal Engineering Advisor supporting the BTO Front Office.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate combines broad technical fluency with the disciplined reasoning of a systems engineer or industrial engineer: someone who naturally decomposes complexity, evaluates assumptions, identifies dependencies and failure modes, compares alternatives, and brings structure to ambiguous technical decisions.
• At least 8 years of similar experience.

Qualifications

• Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations Research, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $170k-$220k
• Full time on-site at Arlington VA headquarters, DARPA. Partial telework determined by client.

Pay

• $170k-$220k

Schedule

• Hybrid FT/PT Status: Full Time

Skills

• Broad technical fluency
• Disciplined reasoning of a systems engineer or industrial engineer
• Natural decomposition of complexity
• Evaluation of assumptions
• Identification of dependencies and failure modes
• Comparison of alternatives
• Bringing structure to ambiguous technical decisions
• Strong engineering mindset
• Auditing complex technical concepts, portfolios, performers, and opportunities

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer