Senior Principal Telemetry Systems Engineer

Saic; Florida; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks an experienced and energetic Sr. Principal Telemetry Systems Engineer to support modernization of space launch ranges and Assured Access to Space missions.

Located in Cape Canaveral, FL, the role drives digital transformation and rapid prototyping to accelerate the Spaceport of the future. Responsibilities cover system-level engineering, MBSE adoption, and documentation across requirements, interfaces and test plans, with collaboration across platform partners and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Requires 12 years systems integration and systems engineering, or 9 years with Master’s.
• Familiar with SharePoint, Excel, Access and Project for collaboration.
• Experience with MBSE and digital engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide system-level engineering support to a cross-functional team.
• Develop preliminary solutions to engineering problems of moderate scope.
• Apply MBSE and DE to address sponsor challenges.
• Use agile acquisition concepts to support recommendations.
• Employ rapid prototyping to inform capability requirements.
• Collaborate with platform partners to advance MBSE across the enterprise.
• Create and maintain technical documentation (requirements, specs, interfaces, test plans).
• Develop and document engineering processes and standards.

Skills

MBSE familiarity

Telemetry systems

RF systems

Agile acquisition

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or equivalent with 12 years experience

Master’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or related field

Tools

MBSE tools

SharePoint

Excel

Access

Project

Job description

Description

SAIC seeks an experienced and energetic Sr. Principal Telemetry Systems Engineer to directly support the modernization of the space launch ranges, meeting mission requirements, providing range capabilities, and supporting the Assured Access to Space (AATS) mission. The overarching purpose of the program is to perform system modernization and digital transformation projects that will enable the acceleration of the space launch cadence to enable the Spaceport of the future. This position is located in Cape Canaveral, FL.

Job Responsibilities:

• Providing system-level engineering support and expertise to a cross-functional team.
• Providing preliminary solutions to engineering problems of moderate scope and complexity in an expeditious, efficient, and timely manner.
• Identify and apply current and emerging Digital Engineering practices, methods, and tools to address our sponsor and partners' most pressing challenges.
• Apply knowledge and principles of agile acquisition, architecture design, system integration, risk assessment/management, and other systems engineering disciplines to support recommendations to address these challenges.
• Employ rapid prototyping and technical recommendations to inform sponsor and partner capability requirements and decisions.
• Collaborate with platform partners to contribute to greater practice of MBSE and DE across the enterprise.
• Authoring and maintenance of technical documentation, such as Requirements Specifications, Concepts of Operation, Product and Performance Specifications, Interface Control Documents, Compliance Matrices, Qualification Test Plans, Procedures, and Reports.
• Development and documentation of engineering processes and standards in support of customer requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or equivalent technical discipline and twelve (12) years of systems integration and systems engineering related or equivalent experience or Master’s degree in an engineering, mathematics, physics or equivalent technical discipline and nine (9) years of systems integration and systems engineering related or equivalent experience. Experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Familiarity with team and administrative collaboration and analysis tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, Excel, Access, and Project.
• Familiarity with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to include generating, analyzing, and maintaining a digital model.
• Experience with projects that consist of updating ground-based systems such as RF Systems, communication systems, telemetry, and/or virtualization of systems.

Desired Education, Experience, and Qualifications:

• Master of Science in engineering, science, or related technical field.
• Experience in large Government systems acquisition.
• Thorough understanding of space systems design, integration and test requirements and test execution, including test equipment support.