Computer Engineer

SAIC is seeking a highly experienced Computer Engineer to provide senior-level technical leadership for the design, acquisition, integration, and deployment of hardware and computing solutions supporting mission-critical operations. This role will lead efforts to develop and field enterprise and edge computing infrastructure, including innovative solutions that are not currently available within existing environments. The candidate will work closely with integration teams, emerging technology platforms, engineering organizations, and operational stakeholders to develop mission-ready solutions that address physical and deployment constraints through small-form-factor computing, mobile servers, workstations, and related hardware technologies.

The role requires strong computer engineering expertise, technical leadership, hardware lifecycle management, and the ability to deliver reliable computing solutions across geographically distributed environments.

THIS IS AN ONSITE ROLE IN SAN DIEGO, CA. WITH UP TO 10% OF CONUS/OCONUS TRAVEL INVOLVED.

• Lead the design, evaluation, acquisition, integration, and deployment of computing hardware and supporting software solutions for enterprise, edge, and mission-focused environments.
• Lead and coordinate teams of engineers responsible for acquiring, building, configuring, integrating, testing, installing, and sustaining hardware and software solutions at government locations.
• Develop innovative computing solutions for emerging operational requirements by evaluating small-form-factor computers, mobile servers, workstations, edge computing platforms, and other technologies to address physical and deployment constraints.
• Support the design and redesign of IT and hardware architectures, including new system implementations, field changes, technology refreshes, upgrades, hardware replacements, and integration with existing infrastructure.
• Manage engineering schedules, technical tasks, dependencies, hardware acquisition activities, and integration milestones to ensure systems are delivered in accordance with customer and operational requirements.
• Manage equipment inventories by maintaining hardware accountability, configuration information, lifecycle status, deployment information, and planning inputs for replacement or modernization.
• Develop and maintain detailed engineering documentation, including hardware designs, system configurations, bills of material, installation procedures, maintenance procedures, technical specifications, and configuration records.
• Provide senior-level technical guidance to engineers, integration teams, program stakeholders, and operational personnel while troubleshooting complex hardware, software, infrastructure, and system integration challenges.
• Plan and execute system installations, upgrades, technology refreshes, and new capability implementations while ensuring solutions meet applicable technical, cybersecurity, interoperability, and industry requirements.

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience;
  Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ;
  PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must have an Active Secret Clearance to start
• Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance after start
• Extensive experience in computer engineering, hardware engineering, systems integration, infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines supporting complex computing environments.
• Experience designing, acquiring, building, integrating, testing, installing, and sustaining computer hardware and supporting software solutions.
• Experience leading engineers or multidisciplinary technical teams responsible for hardware acquisition, system integration, installation, deployment, or sustainment activities.
• Strong understanding of computing hardware architectures, servers, workstations, storage, networking components, peripherals, and supporting infrastructure.
• Experience evaluating technical requirements and developing hardware solutions based on performance, interoperability, environmental, deployment, and operational constraints.
• Experience supporting system design and redesign activities, hardware upgrades, technology refreshes, field changes, configuration management, and lifecycle planning.
• Experience managing engineering schedules, technical tasks, dependencies, equipment requirements, and customer delivery milestones.
• Experience developing and maintaining detailed technical documentation for hardware designs, configurations,…