SAIC
SAIC

Ground Enterprise Mission Systems Engineer

Chantilly, VA, US • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago
Full Time
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Skills

  • Science
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Clarity
  • Configuration Management
  • Requirements Traceability
  • Process Improvement
  • Workflow
  • Cyber Security
  • Documentation
  • Reporting
  • Auditing
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • JD
  • Security Clearance
  • Internal Communications
  • Integrated Circuit
  • IC
  • Acquisition
  • Trend Analysis
  • ROOT
  • Effective Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Customer Engagement
  • Leadership
  • Team Building
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Problem Solving
  • Information Technology
  • Systems Engineering
  • FOCUS

Summary

Job ID: 2612751

Location: Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-05-19

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking a Ground Enterprise Mission Systems Engineer to supports it Prime Program, Landmark AOS in Chantilly, VA. Landmark AOS is a large SETA program, supporting the NRO's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.

Job Duties to include:
  • Support end-to-end analysis of mission system outages across the NRO Ground Enterprise, synthesizing technical data from multiple sources to produce accurate, time-sensitive situational reports for senior leadership.
  • Consolidate system telemetry, operator logs, and engineering inputs to identify root causes, mission impacts, and restoration timelines.
  • Evaluate operational degradations and outages to determine mission impact, cross-mission dependencies, and risk to critical intelligence collection.
  • Coordinate with subsystem engineers, operations crews, and mission partners to validate impact assessments and ensure enterprise-wide awareness.
  • Aggregate and normalize data from disparate monitoring tools, ticketing systems, and mission platforms to create unified operational views.
  • Produce daily, weekly, and event-driven operational reports for NRO senior leadership, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with enterprise reporting standards.
  • Deliver concise executive summaries that highlight trends, risks, and recommended actions.
  • Serve as a central coordination point during mission system incidents, ensuring timely information flow between engineering teams, operations centers, and leadership.
  • Track incident timelines, document key decisions, and maintain authoritative status of ongoing events.
  • Support configuration management, requirements traceability, and technical baseline updates related to operational reporting tools and processes.
  • Conduct long-term trend analysis on outages, degradations, and system performance to identify systemic issues and propose corrective actions.
  • Develop process improvements that streamline reporting workflows and increase accuracy and timeliness.
  • Partner with mission operations, development contractors, cybersecurity teams, and enterprise service providers to ensure consistent reporting and shared situational awareness.
  • Facilitate technical exchanges that align operational reporting with evolving mission needs and enterprise architectures.
  • Maintain detailed documentation of reporting processes, outage analyses, and operational procedures to support audits, readiness reviews, and knowledge transfer.


Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:
  • Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
  • Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Polygraph.
  • Experience supporting or similar IC acquisition/operations organizations.
  • 5+ years of experience supporting mission operations within the NRO.
  • Knowledge of enterprise architectures, CONOPS, and system-of-systems interactions.
  • Knowledge of trend analysis, root-cause assessments, or long-term performance studies.
  • Effective communication, coordination, and customer engagement skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team building and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to be effective in a government/contractor team environment.
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment.
  • Self-motivated Professional capable of executing tasks with minimal guidance.



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  • Dice Id: 10111346
  • Position Id: 2612751
  • Posted 3 hours ago

Company Info

About SAIC

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. 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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