Principal Systems Engineer

SAIC • Colorado Springs, CO

3d • Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to join the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) Team onsite in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The role supports the US Space Force in a fast-paced environment alongside government personnel and systems engineers. The team provides systems engineering and analysis services across system development, enterprise and system architecture, acquisition, testing, operations, and sustainment for existing and new capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related technical field.
• At least 9 years of systems engineering experience in space operations, space system sustainment, or space acquisitions, including requirements development and integration across space and ground segments.
• Active Secret Clearance and ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Expertise in lifecycle systems engineering, including requirements, architecture, test, operations, sustainment, risk management, baseline management, and interface control.
• Ability to work with government customers and prime or support contractors, including participation in Integrated Product Teams and development of technical briefings, plans, and decision-support documentation.
• Strong analytical, communication, and visualization skills, including the ability to interpret complex technical baselines and explain impacts to enterprise capabilities and sustainment.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree.
• GPS and/or USSF experience.
• Active Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective requirements integration across operational space and ground segments, hardware and software, and other relevant systems and organizations for control segment capabilities.
• Understand multiple system requirements and capability baselines and produce visualizations showing capability insertion activities for individual system baselines.
• Support the customer in defining, capturing, and maintaining technical, schedule, cost, and risk data throughout the system lifecycle; develop risk mitigation courses of action and assess impacts of risks and proposed changes.
• Identify derived requirements from government specifications and interface control documents, and help translate requirements into tasks for hardware and software sustainment and development.
• Develop, document, execute, integrate, and evolve systems engineering processes to enable SSC/PNT Enterprise systems engineering and integration efforts.
• Assess proposed Enterprise baseline changes for impacts to operational system requirements, capabilities, and future sustainability.
• Support lifecycle integration activities for systems within the Enterprise, including pre-contractual activities, requirements development, and operations and sustainment capabilities.
• Participate in Integrated Product Teams, Product Support Manager meetings, and other programmatic and sustainment activities.

What This Job Offers

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