Principal Systems Engineer

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Principal Systems Engineer to support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile surveillance, warning, defense, and space surveillance missions. This position is located on-site in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

About the role

In support of the government customer, the SAIC Program Manager, and the Chief Engineer, the Systems Engineer is responsible for responsive and coherent planning, development, and delivery of UEWR radar hardware and software modifications in response to engineering change requests and/or system deficiency reports.

Responsibilities

• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer/operational requirements into system hardware and software engineering specifications.
• Provides specific, detailed information for selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity or capability requirements.
• Manages large Agile or DevSecOps teams/projects, including support for cost estimating, risk management, schedule development, and execution.
• Designs, develops, delivers, and deploys engineered solutions, following DoD Life Cycle engineering processes and/or best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with 9+ years’ related experience.
• Active Secret Clearance.
• Experience with a broad range of system types: custom-developed HW/SW, COTS/GOTS HW/SW, and/or specialty engineering.
• Experience with configuration and data management, hardware and software testing & evaluation of classified systems.
• Demonstrates expertise in at least one engineering field: software, hardware, network, cybersecurity, test, or systems.
• Experienced problem-solver and creative thinker with an outcome-focused mindset.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience sustaining UEWR, PARCS, or other radar systems such as PAVE PAWS, BMEWS, AN/TPY-2, COBRA DANE, LRDR, or Aegis.
• Experience in DoD systems engineering, Model-based Systems Engineering, and related areas, including managing teams/projects delivering solutions for missile warning or other national security space mission systems.
• Experience working with large system-of-systems legacy architecture, upgrading/modernizing outdated technology, and/or mitigating supportability risks with creative solutions.
• Agile certification (SAFe, SCRUM, etc.).
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Cameo, or similar tools.

Pay

Target salary range $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Schedule

• Full-Time
• Day Shift
• Hybrid (ORA_HYBRID)
• Travel: Yes - 10% of the time