Analysis Skills, Business Strategy, Communication Skills, Customer Support/Service, Federal Government, Government, Information Technology & Information Systems, Integrated Circuits (ICs), Integration Testing, Intelligence Community, Interpersonal Skills, Mathematics, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Word, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Operational Support, Problem Solving Skills, Reporting Skills, Research & Development (R&D), Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), System Integration (SI), Systems Engineering, Technical Delivery, Technology Analysis, Top Secret Clearance, Work From Home, Writing Skills
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-05-08
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC seeks an Applied Technology Systems Engineer to join our team of professionals providing technical and program services to the U.S. Government (USG). SAIC provides research, engineering, design, analysis, acquisition, development, integration, test, and operations support to the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of War (DoW) customers. We support development and delivery of next generation and generation after next national security systems based on land, at sea, in air, and in space.
The engineer sought here serves a USG Program Office leading Research & Development (R&D) of evolutionary, revolutionary, and transformational technologies and capabilities in support of the organization's overhead architecture. This position provides Systems Engineering & Technical Advisory (SETA) support services.
Job Description:
- Independently work across organizational lines to identify critical capability gaps to the organization's future overhead systems
- Independently coordination and develop and integrated roadmap for key technology development activities with peer R&D organizations
- Independently review organizational strategy and policy documents to understand the organization's strategic vision
- Independently support the identification and maturation of technologies/capabilities to mature the organization's future overhead architecture
- Independently support the development of the organization's integrated technology/capability roadmap
- Independently develop and maintain the organization's technology roadmap. This involves development and integration of each of the organization's portfolio roadmaps highlighting integration and transition points
- Independently review technical journals, conference proceedings, and on-line technology databases to deliver Quarterly Technology Assessment Report to the organization's Technical Director. These Quarterly Technology Assessment Reports identify those technologies most aligned to the organization's current and future R&D efforts
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Poly
- Must have bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or math discipline with minimum of nine (9) years of relevant work experience or seven (7) years with master's degree
- Satellite and ground systems engineering expertise
- Demonstrated satellite or ground systems engineer expertise
- Proficient skills using Microsoft Office applications (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
- Critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills
- Interpersonal and communication skills for written reports, group discussion, and oral presentations
Desired Qualifications:
- Knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or experience in one of more of the following:
- R&D of satellite ground technologies and systems
- System acquisition, design, development, integration, test, and/or flight operations
- Small Satellite (SmallSat) systems (single vehicles, clusters, and/or constellations)
- Supported organization's R&D effort
- Experience working in an NRO SPO
- IC mission, organizations, disciplines, systems, and/or processes
- Acquisition support experience of 2+ years
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .S
SAIC
SAIC is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's digital transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, IT modernization, 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 a team of 26,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.