Space Ground Satellite Systems Engineer

SAIC•Chantilly, VA

13h

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Satellite Systems Engineer with Radio Frequency (RF) communications experience to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services to a customer within the Intelligence Community (IC) in Chantilly, VA. This customer is responsible for designing, building, and operating experimental spacecraft to demonstrate advanced technologies. Job Description: • Lead technical objective development and decomposition, oversee development contractor’s design, development, integration, and test of communications systems for experimental space systems • Support COMMs systems integration and interface control management • Provide technical advice on Satellite COMM system performance against requirements and specifications • Support systems architecting and engineering activities such as system objectives definition, interface definition, design, interface management, systems integration, performance analysis, and development and refinement of concepts of operation. • Support COMMS system and component verification and validation • Support the integration of secure COMMS capabilities to include hardware cryptographic devices • Make program risk assessments and provide actionable mitigation recommendations to the program manager • Independently collaborate with Government program office representatives, FFRDC, SETA, and contractor personnel • Leads technical requirements development, systems engineering, and oversee development contractor to develop, design, produce, integrate, and test Satellite COMMS systems • Manages required COMMS related approvals and waivers to include spectrum management and others as appropriate • Participate in program readiness and design reviews • Ensure the R&D efforts are planned and conducted on a sound engineering basis including management of technical risks • Support Program acquisition, source selection, and programmatic processes

Requirements

Must have bachelor’s degree in engineering (systems, mechanical, electrical or related discipline) with minimum of nine (9) years of relevant work experience or sic (6) years with master’s degree
Demonstrated space systems engineering experience
Experience providing acquisition support to include working budgets, schedules, contracts (drafting SOWs, CDRLs, RFPs) and supporting source selection efforts
Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance with an active poly.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting varied portfolio projects with dissimilar technical focuses, ideally experience managing R&D projects
Strong interpersonal skills with effective technical writing and briefing skills
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and energetic setting
Strong working knowledge of MS Office applications
Experience working at NRO SPO
NRO Acquisition experience

Responsibilities

Lead technical objective development and decomposition, oversee development contractor’s design, development, integration, and test of communications systems for experimental space systems
Support COMMs systems integration and interface control management
Provide technical advice on Satellite COMM system performance against requirements and specifications
Support systems architecting and engineering activities such as system objectives definition, interface definition, design, interface management, systems integration, performance analysis, and development and refinement of concepts of operation.
Support COMMS system and component verification and validation
Support the integration of secure COMMS capabilities to include hardware cryptographic devices
Make program risk assessments and provide actionable mitigation recommendations to the program manager
Independently collaborate with Government program office representatives, FFRDC, SETA, and contractor personnel
Leads technical requirements development, systems engineering, and oversee development contractor to develop, design, produce, integrate, and test Satellite COMMS systems
Manages required COMMS related approvals and waivers to include spectrum management and others as appropriate
Participate in program readiness and design reviews
Ensure the R&D efforts are planned and conducted on a sound engineering basis including management of technical risks
Support Program acquisition, source selection, and programmatic processes