# Senior Principal Systems Engineer

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Senior Principal Systems Engineer to support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile surveillance, warning, defense, and space surveillance missions. In support of the government customer, the SAIC Program Manager, and the Chief Engineer, the Systems Engineer is responsible for responsive and coherent planning, development and delivery of UEWR radar hardware and software modifications in response to engineering change requests and/or system deficiency reports. This position is located on-site in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Job Duties Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer/operational requirements into system hardware and software engineering specifications. Provides specific, detailed information for selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most e

- **Id**: 3757577
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/saic-senior-principal-systems-engineer-4>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Colorado Springs, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 14
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T13:46:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T10:40:47Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-08T10:40:47Z
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2581
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, Systems Integrators, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 58788
- **Name**: SAIC
- **Domain**: saic.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/saic>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 75
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.92
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Cameo Systems Modeler** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **IBM DOORS** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 14
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T17:26:49Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-08T10:40:47Z

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