Chief Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Chief Engineer to join our diverse Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) team in Colorado Springs, CO or El Segundo, CA. The qualified applicant will be named as a key personnel on SAIC's PNT SE&I senior leadership team. The successful candidate will collaborate and communicate with the SE&I leadership team to ensure SE&I processes and products are delivered for all PNT systems engineering and integration engineering areas of responsibility.

The PNT SE&I Team provides Space Systems Command (SSC) specialized engineering, analysis, planning and execution in support of Global Positioning System (GPS) Programs of Record (PoRs) and the PNT Enterprise. This includes:

• Develop operational and capabilities-based requirements and architectures

• Manage PNT Enterprise Technical Baseline in accordance with documented process plan

• System Engineering for PNT Enterprise and Space, Control and User Segments

• Plan, execute and track Enterprise, Integrated System, Developmental and Cybersecurity Test, Evaluation and Verification

• Develop Enterprise Roadmaps and Schedule Views for system and capability delivery

• Manage GPS Enterprise and Space, Control and User Segment Risks

• Support Sustainment of currently fielded GPS systems

• Support Transition to Operations for future GPS systems

Major duties of the position include:

• Provide innovative internal and external technical leadership, collaboration across all stakeholders, and effective communication to meet customer and program requirements

• Maintain cognizance of relevant technical issues and concerns, elevate to SE&I and government leadership appropriately and provide resolution recommendations

• Coordinate and lead the resolution of enterprise level technical issues; engage with appropriate government and SE&I teams, and ensure PoR and technical baseline updates and corrections are tracked and accomplished

• Conduct development product technical assessments to ensure solutions are integrated and effectively meet customer needs prior to program delivery

• Manage and review the SE&I team execution required to meet or exceed performance work statement (PWS) requirements for technical, schedule, cost, and quality performance; perform hiring, work management, and performance assessments

• Support improvement and innovation for process execution, data and tool utilization, enterprise/system architecture updates and improvements

• Identify opportunities to leverage corporate staff, teammates, processes or tools and ensure the proper collection of metrics to measure execution effectiveness

Qualifications

Requirements:

• BS, and MS or MBA with 12+ years of engineering experience

• Active TS

• Demonstrated leadership skills in the Aerospace or DoD working across space, ground segment organizations to coordinate and identify system integration requirements that ensure end-to-end mission performance requirements are met

• Experience serving as a team, project, or program manager on performance-based contracts for the U.S. Government, experience developing cost and schedule deliverables and managing to baseline costs and schedules to include the identification and management of risks, demonstrated experience working with Air Force/DoD customers in an acquisition environment, with space and/or ground systems

• Experience writing and delivering documents and briefings, demonstrated interpersonal skills to enable working, interfacing, and interrelating with diverse personnel and dynamic teams

• Previous experience working within PNT/GPS

Desired:

• Change agent who looks at the art of the possible to bring new capability and architecture ideas enabling a system or enterprise evolution to meet current or upcoming threats, needs, and requirements

• 16+ Years of demonstrated technical engineering and management/leadership experience

• PNT/GPS mission and/or systems knowledge and experience

• DoD or NRO programs space and ground systems engineering

• Model-Based and/or Software engineering systems practices

• Active TS/SCI

Target salary range: $175,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

Overview

SAIC is a premier Fortune 500 technology 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 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 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.