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Telemetry, Tracking & Satellite Control SME

Colorado Springs, CO, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 6 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
USD $160,001.00 - 200,000.00 per year
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Skills

  • Prototyping
  • Data Analysis
  • Spectrum
  • Internal Communications
  • IC
  • Integrated Circuit
  • Testing
  • Collaboration
  • Interfaces
  • Presentations
  • Microsoft Office
  • Satellite
  • Astrodynamics
  • Modeling
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Analytical Skill
  • Problem Solving
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Leadership
  • Science
  • Aerospace
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Physics
  • Continuous Integration
  • SAP
  • SAR
  • Security Clearance
  • Information Technology
  • Systems Engineering
  • FOCUS

Summary

Job ID: 2615793

Location: Colorado Springs, CO, US

Date Posted: 2026-08-18

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

The qualified applicant will support the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) with various lines of effort to include, but not limited to, modeling, constructive simulation, prototyping, data analytics and visualizations, visual storytelling, and human-in-the-loop analytic efforts. Specifically, the applicant will serve as a subject matter expert on space and ground data networks, satellite control, and telemetry, tracking, and commanding (TT&C) architectures and the associated requirements of satellite architectures. The applicant will serve as a liaison between SWAC's Spectrum Warfare Program (SWP) and Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP) to ensure that SWP architectures and models are represented accurately in SWAC and SSDP analysis and human-in-the-loop analytic events. The applicant will work with SWAC, program offices, IC partners, and the rest of the USSF to gather information to model and represent capabilities required for analytic efforts.

Duties and Responsibilties:
  • Support and facilitate SWAC Force Design analytic efforts, testing and improving software for cognitive assessment and constructive analysis
  • Evaluate, modify, and test models in SPySE and other software tools
  • Collaborate with fellow industry Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to deliver the best-informed models
  • Improve user interfaces for operators, and communicate TT&C and satellite control requirements to inform satellite tasking
  • Take results from analytic efforts and create written and presentation products
  • Build products using Microsoft Office


Qualifications
  • Must have overall min. 9 years of experience, with BS degree, will consider education in lieu of a degree
  • 5+ years of experience in space and ground data networks, satellite control, and TT&C
  • Experience in / background in orbital mechanics and space control
  • Ability to use modeling and simulation to analyze and inform force design metrics
  • Familiarity with the use of native Clouds solutions such as Azure, etc.
  • Ability to self-identify and execute work tasks
  • Demonstrate the ability to apply analytic problem solving skills to operational and strategic level problems, accurately translate technical information for leadership, and establish partnering relationships and coordinate across external organizations
  • Education: Bachelor's degree minimum, advanced degree preferred, in space-relevant engineering or science field (e.g., Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Communications, Physics, etc.)
  • Security Clearance: Must maintain TS/SCI clearance with a CI Polygraph and able to be cleared for Special Access Program/Required (SAP/SAR) clearance level


Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 10111346
  • Position Id: 2615793
  • Posted 2 days 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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