GPS Junior Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking new college graduates to join our team this coming June 2024. We are interested in systems or digital engineers to support the mission of the PNT Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) team. Our locations are Colorado Springs, CO or El Segundo, CA. This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.

The Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (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:

• Ensuring effective requirements integration across space and ground, hardware and software, and all other aspects of systems and organizations within the Enterprise.

• Maintaining the technical baseline, including identifying and documenting system specification and interface requirement traceability to sell-off verification and test events.

• Modeling and simulating technical requirements and functionality across space, ground, and user equipment to help the government make system decisions.

• Interacting with the prime contractor and government leads to ensure that all system requirements and interfaces are consistent and valid across the Enterprise.

• Managing multiple system requirements baselines, and an integrated Enterprise baseline.

• Supporting customer in defining, capturing, and maintaining the technical, schedule, and cost risk data throughout the system lifecycle as well as developing risk mitigation courses of action and assessing impacts of risks and proposed changes.

• Supporting the customer with verification tracking to ensure the developer and source requirements are adequately verified.

• Developing acquisition-related briefings, plans, papers, and other documentation

• Collaborating with prime contractors, other support contractors, government civilians, and members of the U.S. Space Force.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Math, Physics, or similar

• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance

• Extremely motivated individual who is a self-starter and works well in a team environment.

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills as well as organizational skill.

• Strong interpersonal skills to enable working, interfacing, and interrelating with diverse personnel and dynamic teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2+ years' experience as a systems engineer.

• Secret Clearance.

• Demonstrated experience working with Air Force/DoD customers in an acquisition environment, with Space systems.

• Experience with requirements and interface management, risk management, change boards and change board environment.

• Experience writing and delivering technical documents and briefings.

Target salary range: $75,001 - $100,000. 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.