Specialty Engineer Lead

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Sr. Principal Specialty Engineer to provide technical intelligence support to programs for Space Systems Command (SSC) and Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) National Space Test and Training Complex (NSTTC).  SSC equips U.S. forces with space control systems to gain, maintain, and exploit space superiority, and STARCOM NSTTC provides a national capability to perform both developmental and operation test of nationals security space systems located in Colorado Springs, CO.

The ideal candidate will have familiarity with the space control mission area and extensive experience in space system vulnerability and mission effectiveness analysis, survivability effectiveness methodologies, intelligence collection and production, and the ability to translate program technical requirements into intelligence requirements and survivability and mission effectiveness products to support acquisition decisions and operational planning.  The candidate will be expected to continually balance and adjust work priorities to meet short term work suspense and rapidly evolving customer needs in coordination with mission partners.

Job Responsibilities include:

• Directs the planning, development, testing, deployment, and sustainment of a complex and dynamic portfolio of national security space capabilities of the highest national priority
• Manages the modeling and simulation analysis, intelligence support, and production of survivability and mission effectiveness products and tools for ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management, mission partners and the intelligence community
• Distills technical requirements into intelligence needs, documents intelligence requirements, coordinates with the intelligence community to meet program needs
• Develops acquisition documentation to support program milestones.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in a technical pursuit with 14+ years of relevant experience with:
  • MUST HAVE  Intelligence analysis/engineering 
  • MUST HAVE WORKING EXPERIENCE WITH Dept of Defense and the Intelligence Community 
  • Operational intelligence support
• Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable) 
• Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination

·Desired Qualifications:

• Masters degree with 12+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with methodology development for space system survivability, kill-chain analysis and effectiveness analysis
• Professional certification (e.g. INCOSE CSEP)

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

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 $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.