Space Ground Satellite Systems Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Space Ground Satellite Systems Engineer with Security Clearance
Description SAIC is seeking a Satellite Systems Engineer with Radio Frequency (RF) communications experience to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services to a customer within the Intelligence Community (IC) in Chantilly, VA. This customer is responsible for designing, building, and operating experimental spacecraft to demonstrate advanced technologies.

Job Description:

* Lead technical objective development and decomposition, oversee development contractor's design, development, integration, and test of communications systems for experimental space systems
* Support COMMs systems integration and interface control management
* Provide technical advice on Satellite COMM system performance against requirements and specifications
* Support systems architecting and engineering activities such as system objectives definition, interface definition, design, interface management, systems integration, performance analysis, and development and refinement of concepts of operation
* Support COMMS system and component verification and validation
* Support the integration of secure COMMS capabilities to include hardware cryptographic devices
* Make program risk assessments and provide actionable mitigation recommendations to the program manager
* Independently collaborate with Government program office representatives, FFRDC, SETA, and contractor personnel
* Leads technical requirements development, systems engineering, and oversee development contractor to develop, design, produce, integrate, and test Satellite COMMS systems
* Manages required COMMS related approvals and waivers to include spectrum management and others as appropriate
* Participate in program readiness and design reviews
* Ensure the R&D efforts are planned and conducted on a sound engineering basis including management of technical risks
* Support Program acquisition, source selection, and programmatic processes Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

* Must have bachelor's degree in engineering (systems, mechanical, electrical or related discipline) with minimum of nine (9) years of relevant work experience or sic (6) years with master's degree
* Demonstrated space systems engineering experience
* Experience providing acquisition support to include working budgets, schedules, contracts (drafting SOWs, CDRLs, RFPs) and supporting source selection efforts Desired

Qualifications:

* Experience supporting varied portfolio projects with dissimilar technical focuses, ideally experience managing R&D projects
* Strong interpersonal skills with effective technical writing and briefing skills
* Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and energetic setting
* Strong working knowledge of MS Office applications
* Experience working at NRO SPO
* NRO Acquisition experience Clearance:
* Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance with an active poly