Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead

Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead

Job ID: 2613481

Location: Denver, CO, United States

Date Posted: Jun 10, 2026

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly

Potential for Remote Work: On-Site

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Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead to join the National Security and Space Sector (NSS). You would work on a joint Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) crown jewel program providing highly specialized space/counter-space engineering, scientific, and analytical services from DenverAurora, Colorado. We support the Nation's leading-edge IC and DoD space programs and offer compelling, deep-technical work that has direct influence and impact on program development and operations. Our team has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across a variety of disciplines, including physics, math, RF, optics, space acquisition and operations, and intelligence collection and analysis.

This IPT Lead will work in a collaborative team-focused environment of U.S. Government civilians and contractors solving applied technical problems and developing usable solutions for multiple space-related capabilities and threats. The ideal candidate will:

• Demonstrate the ability to provide technical leadership to teams of SMEs to include providing technical guidance and oversight, mentoring team members, integrating and delivering timely, quality products
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills
• Have experience briefing and interacting with senior government customers
• Have experience creating, writing, integrating, and presenting technical briefings and documents
• Have the ability to decompose problems into analytical tasks
• Have experience with program planning, task decomposition, and resource assignments

This position qualifies for enhanced benefits.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Lead a team of multi-disciplined engineers and analysts in program-specific analyses, foreign threat capabilities and development and research
• Tasking, timelines, status, and deliverables for the IPT across the analysis, threat and phenomenology functions
• Maintain communications and schedule meetings with end-customer offices, coordinate information needs, product delivery timelines and status
• Provide status of IPT projects, tasks, and deliverables to program and immediate government customer management at periodic reviews
• Identify, remove, and/or escalate blockers to team tasks or deliverables
• Participating in intelligence or cross-team product production meetings as required
• Achieving detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications
• Identifying gaps and prioritizing recommendations to achieve program protection objectives
• Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decision making;
• Repeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques
• Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of U.S. national security space capabilities, foreign space capabilities, and counter-space threats;
• Participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews (e.g. PMR, PDR, CDR, etc.) to provide technical recommendations and risk assessments;
• Frequently interacting with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders;
• Developing productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs;

Qualifications

Minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering, Physics or Mathematics and 14 or more years (12 or more with a Masters, 9 or more with a PhD) of experience in engineering/scientific fields

• In-depth technical expertise in at least two of the following areas: orbital analysis, satellite communication systems, space surveillance technologies, radar systems, and/or optical systems
• Experience with satellite acquisition, development, and operations
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience interacting with the intel community to include reading and applying intel assessments and coordinating with intel community experts
• Experience using STK or similar satellite mission analysis software
• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Special Access eligibility and consent to a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph. US Citizenship is required
• Demonstrated record of effective individual and group work behaviors, with abilities to proactively initiate and operate in dynamic and incompletely defined environments
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams of scientists and engineers through adaptive leadership and high emotional intelligence
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience conveying technical concepts, results, and summaries to internal customers, external customers, and stakeholders of diverse technical backgrounds

Strongly Desired Skills:

• Masters or Doctorate Degree in Physics, Engineering, or Mathematics
• Experience in space system acquisition or space technology development
• Experience with project or task technical leadership
• Working knowledge of radar and/or optical technologies
• Familiarity with National Security Space architecture (IC and/or DoD)
• Experience using Systems Tool Kit (STK), MATLAB, Linux, Python or COAST/FIST
• Demonstrated proficiency with program-planning processes and tools (such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project)

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Overview

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

SAIC is a premier mission 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, intelligence, and civilian 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 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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