Radar Systems Engineer

Job ID: 2504123

Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-05-14

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

SAIC has a need for a Radar Payload Systems Engineer to provide onsite systems engineering and technical advisory services (SETA) in a dynamic System Program Office (SPO) supporting a Government customer with multiple satellite systems, both on-orbit and in development. This position will primarily support the design, development, manufacturing, assembly, and integration and test activities for Radar payloads for a major satellite program.

Job Responsibilities:

• Acts as an advisor and provides technical support to the government.
• Recognized as a radar subject matter expert, specifically in the areas of Synthetic Aperture Radar, Space Time Processing, and Moving Target Indication.
• Supports the SPO in a technical capacity for planning, execution, monitoring, and oversight of Radar payload systems development and acquisition.
• Applies advanced technologies, scientific principles, theories and concepts to develop novel radar system solutions.
• Develops and maintains an in-depth understanding of system level requirements for assigned systems and the design features that satisfy these requirements.
• Oversees design and development of Radar payload systems and components.
• Assists the government in developing concept of operations (CONOPS) and approaches for radar systems.
• Leads and prepares trade studies, system sensitivity studies, design optimization studies, system performance assessments, and system design assessments.
• Ensures research and development (R&D) efforts are planned and conducted on sound engineering practices including management of technical risks.
• Providing oversight of acquisitions, with specific focus on the Radar payload systems elements, functionality, interfaces, manufacture, build, test, and operations to ensure end-to-end system closure and satisfaction of mission requirements.
• Develops documents and briefings to communicate work status, briefs government and industry as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD and nine (9) years or more experience.
• Experience with radar system design, operations, and data processing.
• Experience with space systems design, development, manufacturing, and testing.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team building and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to be effective in a government/contractor team environment.
• Strong work ethic and self-motivation.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience as a SETA or satellite developer preferred.
• TS/SCI with polygraph required.