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Principal Science/Engineering Advisor (TS/SCI #25-203)
Job Code:25-203
Location:Arlington, VA
FT/PT Status:Full Time
Required Clearance:Top Secret SCI
  
Strategic Analysis, Inc. is seeking a candidate to provide program management and technical advisory support. The successful candidate will support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in managing and developing programs in high-risk, high-reward research and development (R&D) projects. A key element of this role is proactive communication, both written and oral, with key stakeholders including performers, supporting organizations, military transition partners, and international collaborators. The candidate is expected to function as part of a strongly collaborative scientific and technical team, but also to act independently to complete time-critical tasks. The candidate must be comfortable in working at security levels across the spectrum from unclassified open discussion potentially with foreign nationals to collateral classified programs with validated higher levels of need-to-know. This position includes identifying national security challenges and participating in the development of portfolio-level strategies to address them.

Responsibilities:

• Conducting scientific and technical analyses
• Developing broadly understandable explanatory documentation for deeply technical programs, 
• Monitoring of ongoing research and development programs, and reporting to office leadership. 
• Identifying national security challenges and participating in the development of portfolio-level strategies to address them.


Requirements: 

• Technical expertise in one or more of the following areas:
   - High frequency over-the-horizon radar
   - High frequency communications
   - Undersea acoustic surveillance or propagation
   - Space weather and ionospheric radio propagation
   - Electronic warfare
• Demonstrated ability at leading cross-functional teams
• Deep technical fluency along with executive-level communication
• Experience in field test planning and execution (Two extensive field tests are planned for FY26)
• Ability to work with military transition partners 
• Domestic and foreign travel is required
• Technical expertise in the following areas is desirable
• Radio frequency hardware/software/software-defined systems
• Electronic protection
• Instrumentation or radar operations
• Radio propagation / polar region radio propagation
 
 
Clearance: Ability to obtain DoD TS/SCI security clearance is required (Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance is preferred)
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