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SAIC is seeking a Chief Space Systems Engineer with experience on large programs to join the Air Force, Space, and Intelligence Business Group providing systems engineering, systems integration, and contract and technical advisory services to a Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer. The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground architectures comprised of custom development, commercial off the shelf (COTS), and cloud-based services. SAIC is a strong company providing opportunities for energetic individuals with a strong desire to expand their knowledge while increasing their responsibilities.\nSAIC is seeking a Chief Space Systems Engineer with NRO experience to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer for a complex space and ground efforts as part of an exciting and innovative set of programs.\nThis position supports a System Program Office (SPO) in a technical capacity for planning, execution, monitoring, and oversight of satellite system development and acquisitions that advance the National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) space resiliency posture. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience within NRO acquisition and is ready to lead the system engineering branch SETA team through the remaining Verification and Validations gates to sell off the system requirements to the end user. This position is ‘downward facing’ in its responsibility for system level space and ground requirements as flowed down and ‘upward facing’ with functional enterprise requirements.\nThe Chief Space Systems Engineer will join a team of on-site SETAs working a major system acquisition (MSA) with responsibilities that may include but not limited to the following:\nLead team of system engineering SETA and provide oversight of acquisitions, with specific focus on the system engineering processes to ensure end-to-end system closure and satisfaction of mission need.\nMaintain space and ground system baselines.\nManage system Configuration Management process including Engineering Change Proposal, Engineering Review Board/Configuration Control Boards (ECP, ERB/CCB).\nEnsuring requirements that evolve through the change management process remain true to the overall government need.\nConduct full space system lifecycle engineering reviews including System Requirements (SSRs) and Lead and/or Support Lifecycle Readiness reviews to demonstrate the design meets all specifications and customer requirements.\nLead team to ensure proper requirement Verification and Validation methodology is codified and executed by the developer, including determining test strategy and coverage based on a technical risk assessment for each use case or functionality.\nSupport risk management processes and methods for identifying, assessing, and adjudicating program risk; Conduct analysis to identify program risk areas and recommend/implement mitigation approaches.\nRepresent the government client to development contractors and ensure proper messaging between the same.\nSupport Contract Officer/Contract Officer Technical Representatives (CO/COTRs) and Developers by coordinating with other technical domain Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and program stakeholders to achieve a detailed understanding of the systems, designs, and interfaces necessary to satisfy mission requirements.\nReviewing Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) deliverables to ensure content, technical accuracy, and sufficiency of design details to meet program requirements and objectives.\nDevelop briefings and assessments to a variety of audiences and must be able to convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership.\nParticipating in technical interchange meetings between developers and COTR.\nDesign and implement technical solutions for new business needs and challenges.\n Required:\nMust possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.\nBachelor’s and eighteen (18) years or more experience; Master’s and sixteen (16) years or more experience; PhD and fifteen years or more experience.\nExperience in space systems integration and systems engineering.\nExperience with space systems integration throughout the acquisition lifecycle.\nExperience with space-ground systems architectures and acquisition lifecycle support.\nProven knowledge in Requirements Management, Quality Control, and Configuration Management.\nKnowledge of how space systems are designed, specified, developed, manufactured, and tested.\nExperience in large space systems acquisition.\nEffective communication, coordination, and customer engagement skills.\nStrong written and interpersonal skills.\nAbility to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment.\nDesired:\nINCOSE ESEP or CSEP, PMI PMP certification.\nExperience using systems engineering processes, methods, tools, and program roles to develop, implement, and deploy solutions for Satellite Systems.\nThorough understanding of space systems design, integration and test requirements and test execution, including test equipment support.\nExperience in Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) construct and Earned Value processes.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5189,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government","Systems Integrators","Engineering Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-31T16:02:22Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":46,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.84,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:6","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T02:51:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/saic-chief-space-systems-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/saic-chief-space-systems-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T02:51:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4327,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":58788},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=58788"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsaic-chief-space-systems-engineer-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsaic-chief-space-systems-engineer-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsaic-chief-space-systems-engineer-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/saic-chief-space-systems-engineer-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsaic-chief-space-systems-engineer-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3570487}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"saic.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3570487},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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