Computer Engineer

SAIC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Computer Engineer to lead design, acquisition, and deployment of hardware and computing solutions for mission-critical environments. The role focuses on enterprise and edge computing, coordinating teams across government locations and ensuring systems meet security and interoperability requirements.

The position is onsite in San Diego, CA, with travel up to 10% of the CONUS/OCONUS area. Requires U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of experience, or Master's with 7+ years, or PhD/JD with 4+ years.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Active Secret clearance to start is required, TS/SCI clearance after start is possible.
• Extensive experience in computer engineering, hardware engineering, systems integration, infrastructure engineering, or related disciplines.
• Experience designing, acquiring, building, integrating, testing, installing, and sustaining computer hardware and software solutions.
• Experience leading engineers or multidisciplinary teams for hardware acquisition and system integration.
• Strong understanding of computing hardware architectures, servers, workstations, storage, networking components, and infrastructure.
• Experience evaluating requirements and developing hardware solutions considering performance, interoperability, environmental, deployment, and operational constraints.
• Experience managing schedules, tasks, dependencies, equipment, and customer milestones.
• Experience developing and maintaining detailed technical documentation for hardware designs and configurations.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical direction and status updates.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, evaluation, acquisition, integration, and deployment of computing hardware and supporting software for enterprise, edge, and mission-focused environments.
• Coordinate teams responsible for hardware acquisition, building, configuring, integrating, testing, installing, and sustaining solutions at government locations.
• Develop innovative computing solutions addressing operational requirements by evaluating small-form-factor computers, mobile servers, workstations, and edge platforms.
• Support IT and hardware architecture design and redesign, including system implementations, field changes, upgrades, and integration with existing infrastructure.
• Manage engineering schedules, tasks, dependencies, equipment requirements, and milestones to meet customer needs.
• Maintain hardware inventories with configuration, lifecycle, deployment data, and replacement planning.
• Create and maintain detailed engineering documentation: designs, configurations, BOMs, procedures, specs, and records.
• Provide senior technical guidance to engineers, stakeholders, and operations while troubleshooting complex challenges.
• Plan and execute installations, upgrades, and capability implementations meeting technical, cybersecurity, interoperability, and industry requirements.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hardware architectures

Systems integration

Technical documentation

Technical guidance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

JD

Job description

SAIC is seeking a highly experienced Computer Engineer to provide senior-level technical leadership for the design, acquisition, integration, and deployment of hardware and computing solutions supporting mission-critical operations. This role will lead efforts to develop and field enterprise and edge computing infrastructure, including innovative solutions that are not currently available within existing environments. The candidate will work closely with integration teams, emerging technology platforms, engineering organizations, and operational stakeholders to develop mission-ready solutions that address physical and deployment constraints through small-form-factor computing, mobile servers, workstations, and related hardware technologies. The role requires strong computer engineering expertise, technical leadership, hardware lifecycle management, and the ability to deliver reliable computing solutions across geographically distributed environments.

THIS IS AN ONSITE ROLE IN SAN DIEGO, CA. WITH UP TO 10% OF CONUS/OCONUS TRAVEL INVOLVED.

JOB DUTIES:

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

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must have an Active Secret Clearance to start
• Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance after start
• 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 solutions.
• Experience leading engineers or multidisciplinary technical teams responsible for hardware acquisition, system integration, installation, deployment, or sustainment activities.
• Strong understanding of computing hardware architectures, servers, workstations, storage, networking components, peripherals, and supporting infrastructure.
• Experience evaluating technical requirements and developing hardware solutions based on performance, interoperability, environmental, deployment, and operational constraints.
• Experience supporting system design and redesign activities, 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 detailed technical documentation for hardware designs, configurations, installation, maintenance, and sustainment activities.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to collaborate on complex technical challenges across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to provide technical direction and communicate engineering recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, and status to technical, program, and operational stakeholders.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience