Space Protection Systems Engineer

SAIC; Chantilly (VA); In loco; USD 160.000 - 200.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

SAIC is seeking a Space Protection Mission Engineer to join the Air Force, Space and Intelligence Business Group, providing systems engineering and advisory services to a government IC customer.

The SME coordinates with the development contractor and stakeholders for deployment of protection capabilities into space operations and works with mission SMEs on development, verification, testing, and mission validation.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; 9+ years experience; Master’s 7+; PhD 4+ years.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with Poly.
• Experience in Government System Engineering disciplines, including requirements development and management, readiness, and testing.
• Experience developing, testing, or fielding space and/or ground software systems.
• Familiarity with Space Domain Awareness (SDA) systems, activities, or operations.

Mansioni

• Coordinate with external SPOs to develop a common space protection concept of operations that identifies capability requirements and required interfaces to enable satisfaction of their unique protection needs, while simultaneously liaising, as required, to build relationships and manage expectations.
• Advocate for enterprise capability needs at developer working groups, SPO’s internal decision forums, and other technical meetings to facilitate achieving capability delivery commitments.
• Shape strategy recommendations to include engineering and acquisition trades that meet enterprise’s demand for space protection capabilities within the program’s development priorities and budget profile.
• Serves as a SPO technical expert providing oversight for software development, implementation, and deployment of ground processing system capabilities that are integrated with the NRO space enterprise.
• Collaborate with other SMEs to develop technical plans and documentation, advise the customer on technical progress of the acquisition, and support the integration of ground processing systems with space systems.
• Produce technical materials depicting SPO’s development progress in support of stakeholder equities in preparation for stakeholder’s NRO oversight and/or other readiness events, as required.
• Support the Contracting Officer Technical Representative(s) and developers to refine requirements, designs, and testing capabilities to meet user needs.

Conoscenze

Clearance management

Systems engineering

Requirements development

Stakeholder coordination

Space protection concepts

Agile development

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Master’s degree

PhD

Strumenti

Confluence

JIRA

Descrizione del lavoro

SAIC is seeking a Space Protection Mission Engineer to join the Air Force, Space and Intelligence Business Group, providing systems engineering and advisory services to a government IC customer.

The SME coordinates with the development contractor and stakeholders for deployment of protection capabilities into space operations and works with mission SMEs on development, verification, testing, and mission validation.