Computer Engineer

SAIC • San Diego, CA

1d • $160,001 - $200,000 • Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a highly experienced Computer Engineer to provide senior-level technical leadership for designing, acquiring, integrating, and deploying hardware and computing solutions for mission-critical operations. The role leads development and fielding of enterprise and edge computing infrastructure, including solutions not currently available in existing environments. The engineer works with integration teams, emerging technology platforms, engineering organizations, and operational stakeholders to address physical and deployment constraints using small-form-factor computing, mobile servers, workstations, and related hardware. The position requires computer engineering expertise, technical leadership, hardware lifecycle management, and delivery of reliable computing solutions across geographically distributed environments. This is an onsite role in San Diego, California, with up to 10% CONUS/OCONUS travel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 9 or more years of experience; or a master’s degree and 7 or more years; or a PhD or JD and 4 or more years.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must have an active Secret clearance to start and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance after starting.
• Extensive experience in computer engineering, hardware engineering, systems integration, infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines supporting complex computing environments.
• Experience designing, acquiring, building, integrating, testing, installing, and sustaining computer hardware and supporting software.
• Experience leading engineers or multidisciplinary technical teams in hardware acquisition, integration, installation, deployment, or sustainment.
• Strong understanding of computing hardware architectures, servers, workstations, storage, networking components, peripherals, and supporting infrastructure.
• Experience translating technical requirements into hardware solutions that address performance, interoperability, environmental, deployment, and operational constraints.
• Experience with system design and redesign, hardware upgrades, technology refreshes, field changes, configuration management, and lifecycle planning.
• Experience managing engineering schedules, technical tasks, dependencies, equipment requirements, and customer delivery milestones.
• Experience developing and maintaining technical documentation for hardware designs, configurations, installation, maintenance, and sustainment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate on complex technical challenges across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including providing technical direction and communicating recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, and status to technical, program, and operational stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting Navy, Department of War, government, or other mission-critical operational environments.
• Operational experience supporting active-duty military customers and fielded capabilities at government or military installations.
• Experience with complex distributed computing environments, edge infrastructure, or mission-focused technology platforms.
• Experience designing computing solutions for physical constraints, including small-form-factor computers, mobile servers, ruggedized workstations, edge computing systems, and deployable infrastructure.
• Experience integrating computing hardware with emerging technology platforms, sensors, networks, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or other mission-focused platforms.
• Experience with enterprise and edge server technologies, embedded computing, GPUs, high-performance computing hardware, virtualization, containerized workloads, or other mission-focused compute architectures.
• Experience performing hardware trade studies, component evaluations, technical assessments, compatibility analysis, or make/buy recommendations.
• Experience managing technical equipment inventories, hardware configurations, asset lifecycle information, technology refresh planning, and end-of-life considerations.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity, system hardening, secure configuration, vulnerability remediation, and accreditation considerations for government computing hardware.
• Experience supporting system installations, deployment activities, operational testing, technology demonstrations, or geographically distributed technical deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, evaluation, acquisition, integration, and deployment of computing hardware and supporting software for enterprise, edge, and mission-focused environments.
• Lead and coordinate engineering teams acquiring, building, configuring, integrating, testing, installing, and sustaining solutions at government locations.
• Develop computing solutions for emerging operational requirements, evaluating small-form-factor computers, mobile servers, workstations, edge platforms, and other technologies.
• Support design and redesign of IT and hardware architectures, including new systems, field changes, technology refreshes, upgrades, replacements, and integration with existing infrastructure.
• Manage engineering schedules, technical tasks, dependencies, hardware acquisition activities, and integration milestones.
• Manage equipment inventories, including hardware accountability, configuration, lifecycle status, deployment information, and replacement or modernization planning.
• Develop and maintain engineering documentation, including hardware designs, system configurations, bills of material, installation and maintenance procedures, technical specifications, and configuration records.
• Provide technical guidance and troubleshoot complex hardware, software, infrastructure, and system integration challenges.
• Plan and execute installations, upgrades, technology refreshes, and new capability implementations while meeting applicable technical, cybersecurity, interoperability, and industry requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior