Senior Technical Advisor

Description:

SAIC is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team. SE&I provides engineering, integration, technical analysis, and subject matter expertise support to the US Space Force and Department of Defense (DoD) agencies.

As a member of our PNT SE&I team, you’ll work in a fast-paced environment with government personnel and system developers to ensure that Global Positioning System (GPS) remains the gold standard for positioning, navigation, and timing.  A successful candidate will collaborate and communicate with the SE&I leadership team to ensure processes and products are delivered with quality and professionalism.

Major duties of this position include:

• Provide engineering expertise to the team to accomplish:

1. Support the development of future GPS & PNT capabilities
   1. Architect policy that drives acquisition of future GPS & PNT technology
   2. Support of GPS enterprise testing
   3. Support of PNT Enterprise: capabilities, requirements, architectures, concepts, designs, and technologies

• Collaborate with the government team, other program government leads, external organizations, and prime contractors
• Actively participate as a Subject Matter Expert in the GPS requirements process

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or equivalent technical discipline and eighteen (18) years of systems integration and systems engineering related or equivalent experience
• Active TS clearance
• GPS experience
• Demonstrated understanding of System Engineering practices, techniques, policies, and procedures
• Demonstrated experience working with or for the government
• Demonstrated experience writing and delivering technical documents

Desired:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Graduate or Doctoral degree in math, science, or engineering
• Experience with MS Visual Studio C++, Python, and MATLAB
• Experience and familiarity working with DoD acquisition organizations
• Experience working specifically on a Systems Engineering and Integration contract
• Experience and familiarity working with Space Systems Command
• Experience and familiarity working with cryptography and cryptographic systems