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This position plays a critical role in ensuring operational readiness, technical integrity, and lifecycle sustainment of cutting-edge hypersonic strike capabilities.\nAs an ISEA, you will serve as a key technical authority bridging the gap between the engineering baseline and fleet operations. You will work collaboratively with Fleet Support Representatives, government program offices, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure delivered systems align with system and subsystem requirements throughout their operational lifecycle.\nNOTE: This position is 100% remote/work from home. Monthly travel to Crane, IN is required.\nWhat You'll Do:\nServe as a primary In-Service Engineering Agent (ISEA) for hypersonic weapons systems, providing mechanical engineering expertise across the full sustainment lifecycle.\nReview, develop, and maintain technical manuals to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with current system configurations.\nDevelop and process Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), ensuring proposed changes are technically sound, properly documented, and traceable to system/subsystem requirements.\nPerform configuration management activities, maintaining the integrity of the engineering baseline and ensuring delivered hardware and software configurations are accurately tracked and documented.\nAuthor and update redline drawings, incorporating approved engineering changes and ensuring as-built configurations are accurately reflected.\nDevelop and review Independent Logistics Assessment (ILA) documents to support fleet readiness and sustainment planning.\nWrite clear and concise risk statements, identifying technical risks and recommending mitigation strategies to program leadership and government customers.\nParticipate in and support Change Control Boards (CCBs), presenting engineering changes, responding to technical inquiries, and ensuring proper disposition of action items.\nCollaborate closely with Fleet Support Representatives to address fleet-identified issues, document discrepancies, and drive timely engineering resolutions.\nEnsure alignment between delivered systems and applicable system/subsystem specifications, identifying and resolving gaps or non-conformances.\nSupport technical reviews, audits, and program milestones as required by the government customer.\nCoordinate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, logistics personnel, and government stakeholders to support overall program objectives.\n Required Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.\n9+ years of relevant mechanical engineering or engineering related experience.\nExperience with technical manual development and review in a DoD or naval environment.\nDemonstrated experience developing Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) and supporting configuration management processes.\nFamiliarity with naval weapons systems, shipboard mechanical systems, or related defense platforms.\nExperience participating in or supporting Change Control Boards (CCBs).\nProficiency in redline drawing development and engineering drawing interpretation.\nStrong technical writing skills with experience authoring risk statements, engineering assessments, and logistics documents.\nAbility to work effectively with Fleet Support Representatives and government customers.\nInterim secret clearance required to start with the ability to obtain a secret clearance. SAIC will sponsor the clearance process.\nAbility to travel up to 10%.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience supporting NSWC Crane or other Navy offices.\nDemonstrated experience in an ISEA, sustainment, or lifecycle engineering role.\nFamiliarity with hypersonic weapons systems, strike weapons, or advanced naval weapons programs.\nExperience with DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class or Virginia-class submarine platforms.\nKnowledge of MIL-SPEC standards, NAVSEA technical documentation requirements, and DoD configuration management policies (e.g., EIA-649, MIL-HDBK-61).\nExperience developing or reviewing Independent Logistics Assessment (ILA) documents.\nExperience with Navy Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) development.\nFamiliarity with NAVAIR/NAVSEA acquisition and sustainment processes.\nExperience with PTC Windchill, Navy Model Based Product Support (MBPS), or other PLM/configuration management tools.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4531,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":9,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government","Systems Integrators","Engineering Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-06T08:16:08Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":60,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.662,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":8,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","wave","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-08T05:49:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/saic-mechanical-engineer-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/saic-mechanical-engineer-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-09T00:24:25Z","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","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":485,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4515,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-10T00:00:00Z"}},"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-mechanical-engineer-3"},{"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-mechanical-engineer-3"},{"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-mechanical-engineer-3"},{"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-mechanical-engineer-3\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsaic-mechanical-engineer-3"}]}