Principal Systems Engineer

SAIC is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer onsite in Colorado Springs, Colorado with experience in space operations, space system sustainment or space acquisitions to join the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) Team.

PNT SE&I provides engineering, integration, technical analysis, and subject matter expertise (SME) support to the US Space Force. As a member of our PNT SE&I Team, you'll work in a fast-paced environment with Government personnel and systems engineers to provide systems engineering and analysis services to include system development, enterprise and system architecture, acquisition, testing, operations, and sustainment support for existing and new capabilities.

Duties

• Ensuring effective requirements integration across operational space and ground, hardware and software, and all other aspects of systems and organizations for control segment capabilities
• Understanding multiple system requirements and capability baselines, and producing visualization products identifying the capability insertion activities for individual system baselines
• Supporting the customer in defining, capturing, and maintaining the technical, schedule, cost, and risk data throughout the system lifecycle, as well as developing risk mitigation courses of action and assessing impacts of risks and proposed changes
• Identifying derived requirements from government specifications and interface control documents, and assisting with translating requirements into tasks for hardware and software sustainment and development
• Developing, documenting, executing, integrating, and evolving systems engineering processes as required to enable effective SSC/PNT Enterprise systems engineering and integration efforts
• Assessing proposed Enterprise baseline changes for impacts to operational system requirements and capabilities, and future sustainability
• Support integrating activities over the lifecycle of systems within the Enterprise including pre-contractual, requirements development, as well as operations and sustainment capabilities
• Participating in Integrated Product Teams, Product Support Manager meetings, and other programmatic and sustainment activities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
• Significant experience (9+ years) in systems engineering for space operations, space system sustainment, or space acquisitions, including requirements development and integration across space and ground segments.
• Active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI
• Demonstrated expertise in lifecycle systems engineering (requirements, architecture, test, operations, and sustainment), including risk management, baseline management, and interface control.
• Proven ability to work with government customers and prime/support contractors, including participation in Integrated Product Teams and development of technical briefings, plans, and decision-support documentation.
• Strong analytical, communication, and visualization skills, with the ability to interpret complex technical baselines and convey impacts to enterprise capabilities and sustainment.

Desired:

• GPS and/or USSF experience

• Active Top Secret security clearance

• Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

• Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

• Dice Id: 10111346

• Position Id: 2617893

• Posted 3 hours ago

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• About SAIC

• SAIC is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

• We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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