Systems Engineer (Advanced Manufacturing and Compute)

Position Title: Systems Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing and Compute Location: Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia Category: Funded Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time Travel Required: May require occasional domestic travel Shift: Day Remote Type: In-Office Clearance required: Current Top Secret. Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility Salary: $170,000 - $200,000 Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us! Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer t o provide senior-level technical analysis, systems-engineering, and investment-planning support to the Director for Advanced Manufacturing, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for the Defense Industrial Base (DASN (DIB)). The engineer supports Department of the Navy (DON) efforts to identify, assess, and advanced manufacturing and compute capabilities that expand the Navy’s capacity to build, sustain, and modernize the Fleet. This position requires a senior technical subject matter expert with demonstrated experience in complex production environments and advanced manufacturing systems. The engineer shall be capable of independently evaluating manufacturing technologies, industrial systems, production constraints, digital-engineering capabilities, and enabling compute infrastructure; translating technical findings into decision-ready products; and supporting Government consideration of industrial-base investments, capability roadmaps, and technology-transition priorities. Responsibilities: Research, assess, and analyze advanced-manufacturing technologies, industrial systems, production processes, and enabling compute infrastructure relevant to Department of the Navy industrial-base priorities. Evaluate how manufacturing capabilities may improve production throughput, quality, resilience, workforce effectiveness, cost, schedule, maintainability, and sustainment outcomes across the defense industrial base. Develop technical assessments, capability roadmaps, investment analyses, requirements-support documentation, technical memoranda, briefing materials, and recommendations for Government consideration. Analyze advanced-manufacturing applications and production technologies, including additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, production planning, digital twins, microelectronics, industrial data environments, supply-chain integration, and technology transition. Assess compute capabilities supporting modern production environments, including high-performance computing, cloud and edge-computing architectures, modeling and simulation, data management, cyber-resilient industrial-control environments, and factory-floor computing. Support technical analysis related to shipbuilding, shipyard modernization, depot maintenance, sustainment, naval production systems, defense manufacturing, and comparable complex industrial environments. Identify technical risks, constraints, dependencies, maturity considerations, integration challenges, and potential return-on-investment considerations associated with proposed manufacturing and compute initiatives. Prepare executive-level technical products that communic