AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Test & Evaluation, and Training.
**This is a pipeline requisition designed to collect resumes for potential upcoming work at AMERICAN SYSTEMS and does not represent a current opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted when an opening/funding becomes available**
Responsibilities- Support Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) in Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) of Fly-By-Wire (FBW) Ship Control Systems (SCS) for U.S. Navy submarines.
- Review engineering specifications, documents, drawings, and plans,
- Review system, software, and hardware test procedures.
- Witness Formal Qualification and System Acceptance Testing at land-based test facilities.
- Validate requirements.
- Perform Audits of computer software units.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in an Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, or Computer Science field.
- Have an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
- U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance
- Proven experience working with US Navy submarine.
- US Navy submarine Ship Control Systems.
- Computer programming
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, or computer science
- Active Secret security clearance or ability to obtain a Secret security clearance
- U.S. citizenship for obtaining or holding a U.S. security clearance
- Proven experience working with U.S. Navy submarines
- 0–2 years of experience with U.S. Navy submarine Ship Control Systems
- 0–2 years of computer programming experience
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AMERICAN SYSTEMS and has not been reviewed or approved by AMERICAN SYSTEMS.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — The ESOP provides an ownership stake that adds long-term financial value and complements base pay. This employee-ownership structure stands out within the overall package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with automatic enrollment and broad investment options, alongside the ESOP, strengthens retirement pathways beyond salary. These features are presented as competitive within the defense contracting space.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Base pay is considered fair or comparable to industry peers, particularly for technical roles. Starting compensation is described as solid for areas like cybersecurity, systems administration, and IT engineering.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Insights
What We Do
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned government services contractor that delivers professional, technical, information technology, engineering, analysis, testing, evaluation, and training solutions for complex national-priority programs. Based in McLean, Virginia, the company supports federal customers—particularly defense and other Department of Defense missions—with mission-essential and information engineering, digital engineering, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, data, and lifecycle IT services across critical public-sector environments.
