SIGINT Flight Engineer

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:

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• 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.