Description
SAIC is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer with experience in space systems with satellite design acquisition cycle experience to join the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) Team in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
PNT SE&I provides engineering, integration, technical analysis, and subject matter expertise (SME) support to the US Space Force. The SE&I Space Team provides engineering, technical analysis and subject matter expertise (SME) for the Global Positioning System (GPS) supporting the Space Systems Command (SSC). Through a wide scope of systems engineering activities, the SE&I Space Segment team is responsible for space segment integration within the larger PNT enterprise, space vehicle technical advisement, analysis of space vehicle design, space segment risk assessment, acquisition, spacecraft design, payload integration, and oversight of production operations. As a member of our PNT SE&I Team, you'll work in a high-paced environment with Government personnel and systems engineers. Major duties of this position include:
Duties:
Provide satellite/space vehicle technical expertise and systems integration support to ensure an optimal integrated space system.
Facilitate requirements development across the GPS Enterprise and stakeholders.
Develop and review technical requirements pertaining to GPS Space Segment, including submittals of contractor documentation, interface control and system level documentation for Space Segment related activities.
Provide technical support for the GPS III and GPS IIIF programs, including interfacing with the SSC and prime contractors, support for acquisition activities/milestones, technical evaluations, design reviews for software and hardware, and contractor/government testing.
Support space vehicle manufacturing activities and Space Segment Risk & Opportunities management.
Provide subject matter expertise for anomaly resolutions during Launch & Early Orbit (L&EO), Failure Review Boards (FRBs), Incremental Design Reviews (IDRs), and Critical Design Reviews (CDRs).
Assist in evaluating requirement verification and validation process.
Provide technical support for space vehicle and payload design.
Coordinate activities in a multi-team (government and prime contractor) environment, and willing to take on additional technical and administrative tasks/duties as needed.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Math, or Science and minimum of 9 years of related experience.
Active Secret Security Clearance.
Demonstrated experience reviewing and delivering government Technical Requirements Documents (TRDs) and related USSF/USAF briefings.
Possess a high degree of proficiency using DOORS.
Strong interpersonal skills to enable working, interfacing, and interrelating with government civilian and military personnel.
Proven ability to brief in a DoD acquisition customer environment with superior analytical and organizational skills.
Desired:
Active TS/SCI Security Clearance.
Space vehicle as well as other GPS related experience.
Experience and familiarity working with DoD acquisition organizations.
Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. 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: 2413114
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