SIGINT Flight Engineer

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Description

Description: SAIC has an opportunity for a SIGINT Flight Engineer to join an elite team in Aurora, CO providing Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services focused on SIGINT collection systems and systems engineering. Salary range is 145K- 155K.

Responsibilities Include

• Represent the government in executing spacecraft integration, test, launch, and on-orbit operations.
• Conduct anomaly support, launch and mission readiness, and end-to-end space systems architecture analysis.
• Maintain close communications with the program acquisition office and customer engineering organizations providing recommendations on risk level of spacecraft activities.
• Oversee day-to-day execution of mission operations and processes to ensure proper attention to health, safety, and effective use of national resources.
• Provide launch and mission readiness subject matter expertise to operations and engineering including readiness for launch, spacecraft initialization, and transition to mission.
  
  

Qualifications

Required:

• US Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI with polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master’s Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience
• Experience in spacecraft, payload, and launch vehicle engineering as well as mission readiness process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria
• SIGINT systems engineering expertise, and significant space and ground systems domain knowledge
• Technical familiarity with SIGINT system’s payloads, subsystems, and technical capabilities
• Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; readily defines solutions for broad, abstract topics
• Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
  
  

Desired

• Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator or spacecraft engineer, familiar with space operations/policies
• 4-years’ experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and/or closing DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs
• Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools, Agile development, cloud technologies
• Contract management/COTR support experience
• Experience with Jira, Confluence
  
  

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

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2500925

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability