Nuclear Engineer - Senior

SOSi is seeking a Senior level Nuclear Engineer (Scientific Support). to be part of a unique, multi-discipline team assisting partners to fuse operations and intelligence information to enhance government efforts against current and emerging threats, and counter proliferation efforts.

• In this role, you will support defense analytic requirements with enhanced scientific and engineering research, as well as reverse engineering analysis.
• You will also conduct facility and vulnerability assessments on foreign nuclear capabilities.
• Develop innovative analytic and collection concepts across directorate mission areas, support assessment of new technologies techniques, methods, conduct multi-Intelligence integration, and plan programming budgeting.

• BA degree in relevant field.
• 8 years of experience supporting defense analytic requirements with nuclear engineering research.
• In lieu of BA degree, 12+ years of experience supporting defense analytic requirements with nuclear engineering research in lieu of a degree.
• Experience reviewing analytical products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support.
• Ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.
• 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.

• TS/SCI with a current CI Poly
• Knowledge of nuclear sub-disciplines like thermos-hydraulics, seismic events, physics, computational science, or fission reactor engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in physics, engineering, engineering technologies, or a physical science field.

• Normal office conditions
• On government site in Reston, Virginia

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.