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Principal Systems Engineer - Security Clearance Required

SAIC
Colorado Springs, Colorado
$120K-$160K a year
Full-time

Description

SAIC seeks a highly experienced and energetic Senior Systems Engineer to support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile surveillance, warning, defense, and space surveillance missions.

This position is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Job Duties :

  • Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
  • Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software or engineering specifications.
  • Provides specific, detailed information for selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree with 9+ years’ related experience.
  • Active Secret Clearance.
  • Developing and / or sustaining national security, no-fail mission systems.
  • Experience leading waterfall-to-agile transformations, designed to deliver Minimum Viable Products in a consistent cadence.
  • Experience with a broad range of system types : custom developed HW / SW, COTS / GOTS HW / SW, and specialty engineering of exotic material / limited supply items.
  • A high degree of proficiency using DOORs.
  • Experience with implementing and sustaining distributed systems, virtual operating system environments, and virtual / augmented reality technologies.

Desired :

  • Experience in systems engineering, Model-based Systems Engineering and related areas, to include managing teams / projects delivering solutions for missile warning or other national security space mission systems.
  • Knowledge of the Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment mission and associated enterprise.
  • Experience maintaining national security mission networks.

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

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy : SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

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