SIGINT Flight Engineer

  • AURORA, CO
  • Posted 60+ days ago | Updated 7 hours ago

Overview

On Site
USD 145,000.00 - 155,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Security Clearance
Integration Testing
Systems Architecture
Acquisition
Customer Engineering
Management
Science
Mathematics
Process Control
Signals Intelligence
Supervision
Real-time
DoD
Agile
Cloud Computing
Contract Management
JIRA
Confluence
SAP BASIS
Information Technology
Systems Engineering
FOCUS

Job Details

Job ID: 2500925

Location: AURORA, CO, US

Date Posted: 2025-01-22

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

Description: SAIC has an opportunity for a SIGINT Flight Engineer to join an elite team in Aurora, CO providing Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services focused on SIGINT collection systems and systems engineering. Salary range is 145K- 155K.

Responsibilities include:
  • Represent the government in executing spacecraft integration, test, launch, and on-orbit operations.
  • Conduct anomaly support, launch and mission readiness, and end-to-end space systems architecture analysis.
  • Maintain close communications with the program acquisition office and customer engineering organizations providing recommendations on risk level of spacecraft activities.
  • Oversee day-to-day execution of mission operations and processes to ensure proper attention to health, safety, and effective use of national resources.
  • Provide launch and mission readiness subject matter expertise to operations and engineering including readiness for launch, spacecraft initialization, and transition to mission.


Qualifications

Required:
  • ship
  • Active TS/SCI with polygraph
  • Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience
  • Experience in spacecraft, payload, and launch vehicle engineering as well as mission readiness process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria
  • SIGINT systems engineering expertise, and significant space and ground systems domain knowledge
  • Technical familiarity with SIGINT system's payloads, subsystems, and technical capabilities
  • Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; readily defines solutions for broad, abstract topics
  • Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment

Desired:
  • Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator or spacecraft engineer, familiar with space operations/policies
  • 4-years' experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and/or closing DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs
  • Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools, Agile development, cloud technologies
  • Contract management/COTR support experience
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence


Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.


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