Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead

Saic; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 200,001 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced benefits

Job summary

Saic is seeking an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead in Denver, Colorado, to provide technical leadership and engage in high-impact space programs.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in engineering or scientific fields, strong communication skills, and active TS/SCI Clearance.

This role involves leading a team, engaging with government customers, and driving program objectives.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 14 years of experience in engineering/scientific fields.
• In-depth expertise in orbital analysis or satellite communication systems.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Special Access eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers in program-specific analyses.
• Maintain communications with end-customer offices.
• Develop productive relationships with functional counterparts.

Skills

Technical leadership

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent written and verbal communication

Experience with STK or similar software

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or mathematics

Tools

STK

MATLAB

Linux

Python

Job description

Description

SAIC is seeking an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead to join the National Security and Space Sector (NSS). You would work on a joint Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) crown jewel program providing highly specialized space/counter-space engineering, scientific, and analytical services from DenverAurora, Colorado. We support the Nation’s leading-edge IC and DoD space programs and offer compelling, deep‑technical work that has direct influence and impact on program development and operations. Our team has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across a variety of disciplines, including physics, math, RF, optics, space acquisition and operations, and intelligence collection and analysis.

The ideal candidate will:

• Demonstrate the ability to provide technical leadership to teams of SMEs including providing technical guidance and oversight, mentoring team members, integrating and delivering timely, quality products
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills
• Have experience briefing and interacting with senior government customers
• Have experience creating, writing, integrating, and presenting technical briefings and documents
• Have the ability to decompose problems into analytical tasks
• Have experience with program planning, task decomposition, and resource assignments

This position qualifies for enhanced benefits.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Lead a team of multi‑disciplined engineers and analysts in program‑specific analyses, foreign threat capabilities and development and research
• Tasking, timelines, status, and deliverables for the IPT across the analysis, threat and phenomenology functions
• Maintain communications and schedule meetings with end‑customer offices, coordinate information needs, product delivery timelines and status
• Provide status of IPT projects, tasks, and deliverables to program and immediate government customer management at periodic reviews
• Identify, remove, and/or elevate blockers to team tasks or deliverables
• Participate in intelligence or cross‑team product production meetings as required
• Achieve detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications
• Identify gaps and prioritize recommendations to achieve program protection objectives
• Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decision‑making
• Repeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques
• Develop and maintain in‑depth knowledge of U.S. national security space capabilities, foreign space capabilities, and counter‑space threats
• Participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews (e.g. PMR, PDR, CDR, etc.) to provide technical recommendations and risk assessments
• Frequently interact with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders
• Develop productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs

Qualifications

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics or mathematics and 14 or more years (12 or more with a Masters, 9 or more with a PhD) of experience in engineering/scientific fields.

• In‑depth technical expertise in at least two of the following areas: orbital analysis, satellite communication systems, space surveillance technologies, radar systems, and/or optical systems
• Experience with satellite acquisition, development, and operations
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Experience interacting with the intel community to include reading and applying intel assessments and coordinating with intel community experts
• Experience using STK or similar satellite mission analysis software
• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Special Access eligibility and consent to a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph. US Citizenship is required
• Demonstrated record of effective individual and group work behaviors, with abilities to proactively initiate and operate in dynamic and incompletely defined environments
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams of scientists and engineers through adaptive leadership and high emotional intelligence
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience conveying technical concepts, results, and summaries to internal customers, external customers, and stakeholders of diverse technical backgrounds

Strongly Desired Skills:

• Masters or Doctorate Degree in Physics, Engineering, or Mathematics
• Experience in space system acquisition or space technology development
• Experience with project or task technical leadership
• Working knowledge of radar and/or optical technologies
• Familiarity with National Security Space architecture (IC and/or DoD)
• Experience using Systems Tool Kit (STK), MATLAB, Linux, Python or COAST/FIST
• Demonstrated proficiency with program‑planning processes and tools (such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project)

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.