Transition Engineer

  • CHANTILLY, VA
  • Posted 9 hours ago | Updated 9 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Security Clearance
Management
Technical Support
Recruiting
Articulate
Leadership
Science
Mathematics
JD
Project Management
Concept Development
Systems Analysis
Documentation
Testing
Supervision
Collaboration
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Satellite
Signals Intelligence
Agile
Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Systems Engineering
FOCUS

Job Details

Job ID: 2511327

Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-11-05

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 Transition Engineer to guide, and provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services for a government customer in Chantilly, VA . The successful candidate will:

Assist the government oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services.

Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate.

Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts.

Maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency.

Provide technical support to government contacts.

Identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities.

Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities.

Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:


Possess Active TS/SCI with current 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; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience

Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities
  • Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
  • Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission and be familiar with related control gates and associated documentation
  • Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification
  • Self-starter, able to proactively address customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
  • Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal)
  • Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
  • Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project

Desired Qualifications:
  • Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics
  • Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process
  • Familiar with M BSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies



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.

About SAIC