Systems Engineer/Integrated Product Team Lead - Integrated Product Team

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 gapsand prioritizing recommendations to achieve program protectionobjectives.
•  Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decisionmaking.
• Repeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts andtechniques.
• 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).