Site Representative Systems Engineer

SAIC; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) seeks a Site Representative Systems Engineer for the Horizon 2 contract in Tucson, AZ.

The role supports government mission systems across acquisition, integration, test, qualification, deployment, and operations as they transition into production. The candidate will engage in reviews, monitor corrective actions, and oversee lab/manufacturing areas, ensuring production readiness and compliance with security requirements.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of experience in engineering, with strong systems engineering and manufacturing background.
• Experience in terrestrial and space systems design, production, integration and testing.
• Security clearance background investigation (T5 or SSBI) and SCI eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Participate in reviews, meetings, and boards, ensuring updates reach the home program office.
• Monitor corrective actions, problem closures, obsolescence, and manufacturing issues.
• Oversee lab and manufacturing areas, build schedules, progress, and risk to schedule.
• Benchmark practices against developers’ processes and assess progress toward production readiness.
• Support acquisition, integration, test, qualification, deployment, and operations of mission systems.
• Support hardware verifications such as first article inspections and configuration audits.

Skills

Systems engineering

Manufacturing support

Change management

Configuration audits

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Master’s degree

Job description

Description

SAIC has a need for a highly experienced Site Representative Systems Engineer to support to an exciting and impactful customer mission on the Horizon 2 contract. The Horizon 2 contract provides the Government system acquisition program offices Advisory and Assistance Services for various types of weapons systems. This position is available in Tucson, AZ.

The successful candidate will exhibit proactiveness, leaning forward in a high-impact customer mission environment. This position requires strong experience in systems engineering and manufacturing. The candidate will work closely with the customer and other project teammates to support acquisition, integration, test, qualification, deployment, and operations of customer mission systems as they transition into production.

Responsibilities Include:

• Participate in developer reviews, meetings, & boards (technical interchange meetings, manufacturing readiness reviews, change management, etc.), maintaining situational awareness of daily happenings and flowing updates/concerns to the home program office.

• Monitor/overseeing progress on corrective actions, problem closures, change board items, obsolescence issues, diminishing sources, etc.

• Following hardware pedigrees and participating in hardware verification efforts such as first article inspections, functional configuration audits, and physical configuration audits.

• Monitor lab and manufacturing areas, to include build schedules, build progress, and issues that would frustrate the schedule.

• Benchmark known best practices against developer’s processes.

• Review and assess developers manufacturing and transition to production readiness/progress.

Qualifications

This is you:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering with at least 14 years of experience or Masters and 12 years of experience.
• Technical requirements development, systems engineering, and manufacturing in the design, production, integration and testing of terrestrial and space systems.
• Requirements verification and validation.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with little to no oversight.
• Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable).
• Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination.

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