SIGINT Mission Engineer

SAIC is seeking a SIGINT Mission Engineer to support assessments and studies for the SIGINT Directorate. The role involves coordinating assessments for HIVE architecture impacts, architecture trades, and architecture performance assessments with the Enterprise, Chief Architect, Chief Engineer, and Program Offices. It includes managing the development, test, and validation of systems assessment methodologies and tools such as STK, SOAP, MATLAB, and potentially organically developed software.

Location: Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted:

• Provide expert mission analysis and technical support to define technical spacecraft and ground requirements, support concept development for new capabilities, create models to analyze mission data, understand "end to end" mission performance of a system, and work with mission users, stakeholders, and development contractors.
• Perform various mission analyses to include RF, signal processing, orbital, geolocation, pointing, antenna, SOI collection, frequency management, and/or communications performance.
• Evaluate expected performance against mission needs.
• Track, monitor, analyze and provide recommendations for future mission enhancements.
• Assist in requirements definition, analysis, and engineering, system architecting, system and design, interface and data architectures, validation and verification, systems integration, and system & operational performance analysis.
• Perform assessments of requirements and capabilities to include, but not limited to, geolocation potential, area search/update intervals, signal collection analysis, and coverage.
• Support end-to-end performance evaluation activities of systems, such as identifying performance differences among baseline, enhanced baseline, and alternate architectures.
• Perform research and validation of enterprise level requirements as applicable to specific satellite architectures.
• Support system architecting and planning studies, requirements development and verification, and compliance analyses against enterprise level requirements.
• Perform mission analysis of satellite architectures to determine coverage and other performance metrics.
• Provide advice and information on physical science aspects of satellite support to multiple mission domains and battle space awareness planning and mission assessments.
• Provide support to launch and satellite on‑orbit test.
• Plan and execute internal and external interface testing to support final system verification, validation, and delivery.
• Develop productive relationships with prime contractor counterparts, functional counterparts, and other payload and ground system subject matter experts.
• Review complex technical design documentation and provide formal and informal feedback.
• Liaise with mission analysis and acquisition teams to ensure completeness across the acquisition.
• Collaborate with armed services and agencies on engineering standards, space frequency utilization, modulation techniques, multiplexing schemes, and mission requirements.
• Prepare reports, white papers, and briefings for senior management and external organizations.
• Develop and maintain tools and databases used for related satellite mission assessment activities.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics with 9 years or more experience;
  Master’s degree with 7 years or more experience;
  PhD with 4 years or more experience.
• Solid understanding of Signals Intelligence satellite systems and architectures.
• Experience in MATLAB, Python, or similar.
• Experience in NRO, IC, and DoD satellite programs, acquisition, and program management processes.
• Familiarity with translating multiple mission domain awareness operational requirements into satellite specifications and providing mission analysis support to legacy, current, and future satellite programs.
• Availability to travel domestically.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology