Senior RF Systems Engineer

SAIC•El Segundo, CA

9h•Onsite

About The Position

SAIC has an opening for a Space RF Payload subject matter expert (SME) with in-depth knowledge of digital signal processing, signals, remote sensing, mission analyses, and system engineering. You will provide subject matter expertise to support customer decisions with respect to contractors’ development of spaceborne RF signal processing payloads, ground processing systems, and overall mission capabilities. You will work in customer facilities in El Segundo, CA, directly sitting with our customers to provide our support.

Requirements

Space RF Payload subject matter expert (SME)
In-depth knowledge of digital signal processing
In-depth knowledge of signals
In-depth knowledge of remote sensing
In-depth knowledge of mission analyses
In-depth knowledge of system engineering

Responsibilities

Responsible for acting as primary technical oversight for the development, build, verification and deployment of Space RF payloads, providing Government leadership, as needed, recommend course corrections to the payload design and build through delivery
Requirements generation
Evaluation and compliance assessments to generated requirements and requirements flow down.
Concept design evaluation and analysis of alternatives
Assessments of Critical Technology Elements (CTE), Technology Readiness Assessments (TRAs) and Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRAs)
Concept of Operations (CONOPS) development
Provide technical oversight of payload integration process onto candidate spacecraft
Provide technical oversight of transition to operations to include the development, operator training, payload initialization and checkout, and on-orbit operations
Responsible for assessing proposed payload design updates and understanding all performance and spacecraft impacts due to these updates
Responsible for performing assessments of risk reduction plans associated with improving the maturity of payload design and hardware
Responsible for working with contacts at prime and subcontractors to ensure work is on schedule and progressing