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SAIC · 7 hours ago

Transition Engineer

SAIC is seeking a Transition Engineer to guide and provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services for a government customer in Chantilly, VA. The successful candidate will assist the government in overseeing and managing technical efforts for transition activities, ensuring the delivery of vital mission operations capabilities.

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Responsibilities

Assist the government oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities
Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate
Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts
Maintain awareness of government’s evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency
Provide technical support to government contacts
Identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities
Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities
Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership

Qualification

Systems engineeringSIGINT knowledgeProject managementProgram lifecycle experienceCONOPS developmentTechnical specification reviewMS Office proficiencyAGILE developmentCloud technologiesInterpersonal skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Must be US Citizen
Possess Active TS/SCI with current polygraph
Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience
Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities
Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission and be familiar with related control gates and associated documentation
Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification
Self-starter, able to proactively address customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal)
Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project

Preferred

Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics
Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process
Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies

Company

SAIC specializes in IT, enterprise IT, engineering, and professional services.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$522.13M
Key Investors
U.S. Geothermal
2025-09-22Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2010-09-13Post Ipo Equity· $22M
2006-10-13IPO

Leadership Team

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Prabu Natarajan
Chief Financial Officer
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Kevin F Brown
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
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