GEOINT Ground RADAR Systems Engineer

Saic; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks a GEOINTGroundRADARSystemsEngineer to provide SETA services for a critical role within the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate. You will support architectural decisions, oversight of prime contractors, and the delivery of mission processing services across the acquisition life cycle.

Responsibilities include coordinating with government and industry partners, developing requirements, assessing risks, and helping advance radar/RF capabilities and resiliency for national security

Qualifications

• Top Secret/SCI clearance with a Poly.
• Experience in Radar/RF phenomenology and processing methodologies.
• Experience in Radar/RF systems including tasking, C2, collection, mission processing or dissemination.
• Familiarity with IC/DoD/space architectures and ground software.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills across multiple audiences.

Responsibilities

• Retain cognizance of GEOINT mission processing projects, including baseline, schedules, dependencies, risks and cost.
• Advise senior/mid-level managers on architectural decisions, investment strategies and risk assessment.
• Interface with development Prime Contractors as oversight, ensuring alignment with government requirements.
• Collaborate with System Engineers, Acquisition Engineers and Domain Experts to guide customers in acquiring modern processing applications.
• Conduct strategic planning for mission architecture needs and programmatic considerations.
• Develop enterprise, system, functional, performance and interface requirements.
• Provide performance assessments and cost/schedule/risk impact estimates for ground architectures.
• Provide technical and cost assessment of vendor proposals and review artifacts and plans.
• Advance resiliency activities/initiatives in RF technology with IC customers.

Skills

Radar/RF phenomenology

Radar/RF systems

Requirements development

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree + 9+ years experience

Master's degree + 7+ years experience

PhD/JD + 4+ years experience

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a GEOINTGroundRADARSystemsEngineer to provide Systems Engineer Technical Advisor (SETA) services for a critical position on an SAIC’s Prime Program, supporting the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED).

As the EOINTGroundRADARSystemsEngineer you will provide technical support to facilitate the development of GEOINT capabilities cooperatively with development contractors and mission partners to optimize mission success. You will also actively perform engineering and analysis to ensure programs successfully develop and deliver core mission processing services in all phases of the acquisition life cycle.

Job Duties to include:

• Retain cognizance of a wide variety of GEOINT mission processing projects including technical baseline, project schedules, dependencies, risks, and cost.
• Advise Senior and Mid-Level managers on architectural decisions to include investment strategies, acquisition portfolio priorities, risk assessment of project execution.
• Interface directly with development Prime Contractors in the role of oversight, monitoring of software development and integration activities and ensuring alignment with Government requirements and objectives.
• Operate side-by-side with Program staff comprised of world class System Engineers, Acquisition Engineers, and Domain Experts to lead the customer in acquiring modern processing applications.
• Conduct Strategic planning for both mission architecture needs (technical trade studies, definition of future architecture planning, software service recommendations etc.) and programmatic (Program).
• Developing enterprise, system, functional, performance, and interface requirements.
• Accomplish performance assessment and provide estimates of cost, schedule, and risk impacts to existing Ground architecture implementations.
• Provide technical and cost assessment of vendor proposals, review technical reports, design artifacts and program plans.
• Work with the IC customer to advance resiliency activities/initiatives in RF technology.

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience

• 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. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Top Secret/SCI clearance with a Poly.
• Experience in Radar/RF phenomenology specific to collection and processing methodology.
• Experience in Radar/RF systems to include tasking, command & control, collection, mission processing, or dissemination.
• Experience in requirements development and definition activities.
• Experience with IC, DoD, and/or commercial space architectures, systems and/or operations/Domain knowledge in Ground Software, Space Development Programs or Mission Operations programs.
• Familiarity with MS Office tool suite.
• Strong organizational, time-management, and verbal / written communication skills, able to convey information across multiple customer and corporate audiences.

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.