Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced benefits

Job summary

SAIC is seeking an Integrated Product Team Lead to guide a multi-disciplinary team in space/counter-space analyses for a crown-jewel IC/DoD program in the Denver area. You will mentor SMEs, deliver timely products, and interact with senior government customers.

Ideal candidates demonstrate strong written and oral communication, briefing skills, and the ability to decompose complex problems into actionable tasks, with experience in program planning and cross-team coordination.

Qualifications

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics or mathematics with 16+ years (or 14+ with a Master, 9+ with a PhD) experience.
• Expertise in two or more areas: orbital analysis, satellite comms, space surveillance, radar or optical systems.
• Experience with satellite acquisition, development and operations.
• TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph and US citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers and analysts on analyses of foreign threat capabilities.
• Coordinate IPT tasks, timelines, and deliverables with senior government customers.
• Present technical briefings and maintain customer communications.
• Decompose problems into analytical tasks and assign resources.
• Participate in program reviews (PMR, PDR, CDR) and risk assessments.

Skills

Technical leadership

Written communication

Oral communication

Briefing with customers

Problem decomposition

Program planning

Education

Bachelor in Engineering/Physics/Math

Master's degree

PhD

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 to include 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 eliminate blockers to team tasks or deliverables
• Participating in intelligence or cross-team product production meetings as required
• Achieving detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications
• Identifying gapsand prioritizing recommendations to achieve program protectionobjectives
• Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decisionmaking;
• Repeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts andtechniques
• 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 interacting with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders;
• Developing productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs;

Qualifications

Minimum of abachelor’s degree in engineering, Physics or Mathematicsand16 or more years 14 or more with a Masters,9or more with a PhD) of experience inengineering/scientificfields

• In-depth technicalexpertisein 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 aCounterintelligence(CI) polygraph. US Citizenship isrequired
• Demonstrated record of effective individual and group work behaviors, with abilities to proactivelyinitiateand 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
• Demonstratedproficiencywith 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.