Systems Engineer/Integrated Product Team Lead(IPT)

SAIC is seeking an Integrated Systems Engineer/Integrated Product Team Lead (IPT) to join the National Security and Space Sector (NSS). You would work on a joint Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) crown jewel program providing highly specialized space/counter-space engineering, scientific, and analytical services from Denver/Auora, Colorado. We support the Nation’s leading-edge IC and DoD space programs and offer compelling, deep-technical work that has direct influence and impact on program development and operations. Our team has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across a variety of disciplines, including physics, math, RF, optics, space acquisition and operations, and intelligence collection and analysis. 
This IPT Lead will work in a collaborative team-focused environment of U.S. Government civilians and contractors solving applied technical problems and developing usable solutions for multiple space-related capabilities and threats. The ideal candidate will: 

   Demonstrate the ability to provide technical leadership to teams of SMEs to include providing technical guidance and oversight, mentoring team members, integrating and delivering timely, quality products 

•    Have excellent written and oral communication skills 

•    Have experience briefing and interacting with senior government customers 

•    Have experience creating, writing, integrating, and presenting technical briefings and documents 

•    Have the ability to decompose problems into analytical tasks 

•    Have experience with program planning, task decomposition, and resource assignments 

This position qualifies for enhanced benefits.

Duties and responsibilities include: 

•    Lead a team of multi-disciplined engineers and analysts in program-specific analyses, foreign threat capabilities and development and research 

•    Tasking, timelines, status, and deliverables for the IPT across the analysis, threat and phenomenology functions 

•    Maintain communications and schedule meetings with end-customer offices, coordinate information needs, product delivery timelines and status 

•    Provide status of IPT projects, tasks, and deliverables to program and immediate government customer management at periodic reviews 

•    Identify, remove, and/or escalate blockers to team tasks or deliverables 

•    Participating in intelligence or cross-team product production meetings as required 

•    Achieving detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications 

•    Identifying gaps and prioritizing recommendations to achieve program protection objectives 

•    Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decision making; 

•    Repeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques 

•    Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of U.S. national security space capabilities, foreign space capabilities, and counter-space threats; 

•    Participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews (e.g. PMR, PDR, CDR, etc.) to provide technical recommendations and risk assessments; 

•    Frequently interacting with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders; 

•    Developing productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs; 

TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience

• In-depth technical expertise in at least two of the following areas: orbital analysis, satellite communication systems, space surveillance technologies, radar systems, and/or optical systems 
• Experience with satellite acquisition, development, and operations 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Experience interacting with the intel community to include reading and applying intel assessments and coordinating with intel community experts 
• Experience using STK or similar satellite mission analysis software 
• Active Secret  Clearance. US Citizenship is required 
• Demonstrated record of effective individual and group work behaviors, with abilities to proactively initiate and operate in dynamic and incompletely defined environments 
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams of scientists and engineers through adaptive leadership and high emotional intelligence 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience conveying technical concepts, results, and summaries to internal customers, external customers, and stakeholders of diverse technical backgrounds 

  
  

Strongly Desired Skills: 

• Masters or Doctorate Degree in Physics, Engineering, or Mathematics 
• TS/SCS  with Special Access eligibility and consent to set to a poly 
• Experience in space system acquisition or space technology development 
• Experience with project or task technical leadership 
• Working knowledge of radar and/or optical technologies  
• Familiarity with National Security Space architecture (IC and/or DoD)  
• Experience using Systems Tool Kit (STK), MATLAB, Linux, Python or COAST/FIST  
• Demonstrated proficiency with program-planning processes and tools (such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project)