Principal Systems Engineer

SAIC • Colorado Springs, CO

4d • Onsite

About The Position

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

The engineer supports the integration of requirements and capabilities across space and ground segments, hardware and software, systems, and organizations. The position also contributes to lifecycle systems engineering, enterprise baseline management, risk assessment, and sustainment and development activities.

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 the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Demonstrated expertise in lifecycle systems engineering, including requirements, architecture, test, operations, and sustainment.
• Experience with risk management, baseline management, and interface control.
• Ability to work with government customers and prime or support contractors, including participation in Integrated Product Teams.
• Experience developing technical briefings, plans, and decision-support documentation.
• Strong analytical, communication, and visualization skills, including the ability to interpret complex technical baselines and communicate 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 system and organizational aspects for control segment capabilities.
• Understand multiple system requirements and capability baselines and produce visualizations identifying 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 the impacts of risks and proposed changes.
• Identify derived requirements from government specifications and interface control documents, and help translate requirements into hardware and software sustainment and development tasks.
• Develop, document, execute, integrate, and evolve systems engineering processes supporting SSC/PNT Enterprise systems engineering and integration.
• Assess proposed Enterprise baseline changes for impacts to operational system requirements and capabilities and future sustainability.
• Support systems integration across the Enterprise lifecycle, 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