Space Protection Mission Engineer

Description ufeff SAIC is seeking a Space Protection Mission Engineer to join the Air Force, Space and Intelligence Business Group providing systems engineering and technical advisory services to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer. The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground systems, architectures, and hardware and software solutions. The Space Protection Mission Engineer will serve as the subject matter expert (SME) and System Program Office (SPO) representative coordinating with the development contractor and stakeholders (including end user operators) for deployment of new protection capabilities into space operations. The Space Protection Mission Engineer collaborates within a team of mission-related SMEs to coordinate system development, requirements verification testing (and sell-off), identification of discrepancies, and mission validation testing. The Space Protection Mission Engineer responsibilities include, but are not limited to: + Coordinate with external SPOs to develop a common space protection concept of operations that identifies capability requirements and required interfaces to enable satisfaction of their unique protection needs, while simultaneously liaising, as required, to build relationships and manage expectations. + Advocate for enterprise capability needs at developer working groups, SPOu2019s internal decision forums, and other technical meetings to facilitate achieving capability delivery commitments. + Shape strategy recommendations to include engineering and acquisition trades that meet enterpriseu2019s demand for space protection capabilities within the programu2019s development priorities and budget profile. + Serves as a SPO technical expert providing oversight for software development, implementation, and deployment of ground processing system capabilities that are integrated with the NRO space enterprise. + Collaborate with other SMEs to develop technical plans and documentation, advise the customer on technical progress of the acquisition, and support the integration of ground processing systems with space systems. + Produce technical materials depicting SPOu2019s development progress in support of stakeholder equities in preparation for stakeholderu2019s NRO oversight and/or other readiness events, as required. + Support the Contracting Officer Technical Representative(s) and developers to refine requirements, designs, and testing capabilities to meet user needs. Qualifications ufeff Required Qualifications: + Bacheloru2019s and 9 or more years of experience; masteru2019s and 7 or more years of experience; PhD and 4 or more years of experience. + Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly. + Experience in Government System Engineering disciplines, including requirements development and management, readiness, and testing. + Experience developing, testing, or fielding space and/or ground software systems. + Familiarity with Space Domain Awareness (SDA) systems, activities, or operations. Desired Qualifications: + Experience in SDA and the Indication and Warning (I&W) mission areas. + Experience supporting NRO SIGINT or GEOINT SPOs and/or familiarity with SIGINT/GEOINT operations. + Familiarity with NROu2019s Systemu2019s Engineering Directorate (SED) and its Requirements Development/Management, RFC, and Lifecycle Readiness processes. + Familiarity with Agile development methodologies including participation in scrums, development of solution. epics/features, and continuous integration/continuous deployment. + Familiarity with Confluence and JIRA. REQNUMBER: T2600409SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit . For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Created: 2026-03-10