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Federal Lab System Engineer

Chantilly, VA, US • Posted 3 days ago • Updated 15 hours ago

Full Time

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Skills

Security Clearance
Intelligence Analysis
Training
FAR
Acquisition
Management
Partnership
Collaboration
Reporting
Workflow
Research and Development
Science
Mathematics
JD
Writing
Patents
Intellectual Property
IP
Confluence
JIRA
Information Technology
Systems Engineering
FOCUS

Summary

Job ID: 2611219

Location: Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-04-10

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

SAIC, a leading provider of systems development & deployment, targeting & intelligence analysis, systems engineering & integration, and training capabilities and solutions for the Intelligence Community, is seeking a Federal Laboratory Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering and technical advisory (SETA) services to a United States Government customer in Chantilly, VA. SETA contractors provide analysis and engineering services in a consulting capacity, working closely with the government's own engineering staff members. In this position, you will help customer teams execute authorities associated with the agency's designation as a Federal Laboratory. Work will emphasize technology transition/transfer between the agency and industry and academia using innovative non-FAR-based acquisition capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, execute, and manage Partnerships Intermediary Agreements (PIA), Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA), and Educational Partnership Agreements (EPA).
Work closely with customers to identify promising research and development (R&D) topics and use PIAs/CRADAs/EPAs to execute the envisioned R&D.
Collect, analyze, and report metrics on the R&D workflow and determine bottlenecks.
Engage in outreach activities with stakeholders in the customer's organization to identify transition partners for successfully completed R&D projects; Track technology transfers from an R&D office to operational users.
Engage and coordinate activities with other Federal Laboratory entities, as well as academia, industry, and government organizations.
Communicate technical concepts and information via written and oral communications.

Qualifications

Active TS/SCI with Poly.
BS degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math with 9 years of relevant experience (4 additional years of experience may be used in lieu of degree).
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.
Effective interpersonal skills and strong briefing and writing skills.
Aptitude for on-site SETA work.
Good working knowledge of MS Office applications.
Experience with Patents and Intellectual Property (IP) is desired.
Experience working with Confluence and JIRA desired.

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: 2611219
Posted 3 days ago

Company Info

About SAIC

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500 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, civilian and intelligence markets include 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 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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