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Operational Systems Engineer Principal
Operational Systems Engineer Principal-December 2024
Chantilly
Dec 20, 2025
About Operational Systems Engineer Principal

  Description

  Join a winning team! SAIC’s National Security and Space (NSS) Sector is currently hiring for a customer within the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, VA. This customer is responsible for designing, building, and operating national security-related systems based in space, in the air, and on the ground. SAIC is a strong company providing opportunities for energetic individuals with a strong desire to expand their knowledge while increasing their responsibilities.

  SAIC is seeking an energetic individual with a strong desire to enhance space resiliency. The candidate will provides Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, VA, offering unparalleled insight into an emerging mission area and opportunities to secure our nation’s space enterprise. The candidate will provide support to a customer charged with delivering solutions across rapidly expanding complex space and ground system initiatives. The candidate will work closely with Government and other SETA staff to plan, deliver, maintain, and enhance critical mission capabilities for the NRO enterprise. SETA staff collaborate with Intelligence Community (IC) organizations and Department of Defense (DoD) technical providers to maintain awareness of current and emerging threats, and to drive solutions to mitigate these threats.

  The candidate will provide support to an office in execution of mission critical systems for an exciting new mission area with responsibilities which may include but not limited to the following:

  Identify internal and external multi-domain interoperability opportunities that benefit and improve operations

  Developing novel operational concepts for improved multi-domain integration between IC/DoD air, sea and land-based users in a contested space environment

  Develop leading-edge multi-domain technical systems integration concepts and associated new technologies that lead to end-to-end operational closure with IC/DoD users

  Developing organizational relationships with new IC/DoD users as well as maintaining and maximizing existing relationships

  Provide support to planning, organizing, and hosting communities of interest (COI’s) focused on operationalizing multi-domain technologies and processes

  Provide exercise oversight, integration, test analysis and reporting to ensure efficiency and effectiveness off proposed solutions, products, systems, and programs

  Provide critical real-time expertise to management, security and technical customers at all levels of control via oral and written feedback in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

  Work as both an individual contributor and as a member of a collaborative team

  Work directly with IC/DoD Government senior managers as well as with tactical warfighters

  Advise on tasking of various RF sensors

  Advise on various cyber threats

  Assist IC/DoD customers to define and group achievable new requirements that integrate technical. Process, personnel, and physical solutions

  Qualifications

  Required Qualifications:

  Bachelor Degree with 9 years of relevant operational experience; Master’s Degree with 7 years of relevant experience; or PhD or JD and 4 years or more experience

  Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph

  Experience working with the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense

  Experience working independently and collaboratively in a team setting

  Experience working with space systems

  Understanding of signals intelligence (SIGINT)

  Experience with RF/SATCOM communication technology and systems

  Experience with signal analysis and exploitation

  Experience in RF phenomenology specific to collection and processing methodology, and tasking, command and control, collection, mission processing, and dissemination

  Experience with Digital Signal Processors and the application to perform traditional and non-traditional functions

  Experience with operational RF tradecraft, workflows, and policies and procedures

  Participated in documenting and championing operational concepts for national security

  Experience with cyber technology and systems

  Experience with cyber phenomenology specific to collection and processing

  Monitor the threat landscape to ensure the organization is current with information on perceived and existing threats to the environment

  Experience in security technology evaluations

  Experience in general understanding of intrusion detection

  Experience in understanding the life cycle of network threats, attacks, attack vectors, and methods of exploitation

  Desired Qualifications:

  Experience in Department of Defense operational planning

  Experience translating mission requirements into technical objectives

  Experience with Reserve and multi-SAP/CAP programs

  Experience with waveforms, waveform design and characteristics reducing probability of detection/interception

  Experience in establishing procedures in a timely manner and escalate issues when required

  Experience with current attack techniques and general knowledge of the relevant threat landscape

  SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

  Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.REQNUMBER: 2400198

  SAIC 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 saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

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