GPS Operations and Sustainment Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our team of diverse GPS Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) team. The GPS SE&I Team provides specialized engineering, analysis, operations support, and subject matter expertise to the Space Systems Command (SSC)/Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise and other GPS customers. The team also provides systems engineering and analysis services to include system development, enterprise and system architecture, acquisition, testing, operations, and sustainment support for existing and new capabilities.   Team members also provide an enterprise perspective for identification and review of risks and risk mitigation plans and work to institutionalize systems engineering best practices across the SSC/PNT Enterprise organization. Major duties of the position include:

• Directly supporting the SE&I Operations and Sustainment Lead
• Ensuring effective requirements integration across operational space and ground, hardware and software, and all other aspects of systems and organizations for control segment capabilities
• Interacting with the prime contractor and government leads to ensure that all system requirements and interfaces are consistent and valid across operations and the Enterprise
• Understanding multiple system requirements and capability baselines, and producing visualization products identifying the capability insertion activities for individual system baselines
• Supporting customer in defining, capturing, and maintaining the technical, schedule, cost, and risk data throughout the system lifecycle, as well as developing risk mitigation courses of action and assessing impacts of risks and proposed changes
• Identifying derived requirements from government specifications and interface control documents, and assisting with translating requirements into tasks for hardware and software sustainment and development
• Developing, documenting, executing, integrating, and evolving systems engineering processes as required to enable effective SSC/PNT Enterprise systems engineering and integration efforts
• Assessing proposed Enterprise baseline changes for impacts to operational system requirements and capabilities, and future sustainability
• Support integrating activities over the lifecycle of systems within the Enterprise including pre-contractual, requirements development, as well as operations and sustainment capabilities
• Developing operations and sustainment related briefings, plans, papers, and other documentation in support of SSC/PNT Enterprise decision making
• Collaborating with prime contractors, other support contractors, government civilians, and members of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force
• Participate in Integrated Product Teams, Product Support Manager meetings, and other programmatic and sustainment activities

   

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience or Master’s degree and 3+ years relevant experience
• Extremely motivated individual who is a self-starter and works well in a diverse team environment
• Demonstrated experience working with Air Force/Space Force/DoD customers in an operations and sustainment environment, with Space systems (especially at SSC)
• Experience writing and delivering technical documents, analysis, and briefings
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills as well as being highly organized and ability to prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable working, interfacing, and communicating with diverse personnel and dynamic teams
• Ability to obtain a TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• GPS and/or USSF experience highly desirable
• Active TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.9 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.