SETA Systems Engineer

Description

Are you a highly motivated Systems Engineer looking for a rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact? SAIC has an immediate opening for an innovative Systems Engineering Technical Advisor (SETA) to provide direct customer support on a critical development effort. This opportunity is part of a dynamic team where your engineering expertise and solution-oriented mindset will drive key system development projects from inception through delivery.

Join SAIC and lead the charge in a pivotal role that rewards initiative, innovation, and mission drive. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about driving projects to success, we want to hear from you!

• Translate system-level requirements into government authored ICDs, retain full control over content, versioning, and distribution, verify that every ICD conforms to the approved architecture and requirements baseline
• Serves as the program point of contact for all industry partner technical inquiries, schedule-change requests, and interface clarifications
• Work closely with other SETA to confirm that each ICD, change request, and integration activity aligns with the system architecture and the established requirements baseline before release
• Build, maintain and update the integrated master schedule (IMS) in MS Project to reflect all vendor contract milestones and cross-vendor dependencies; refresh the schedule weekly with vendor inputs and highlight any open integration issues or milestone shifts
• Maintain the project Confluence space that houses all program documents; enforce version control, access permissions, and ensure the repository remains updated
• Maintain the official program calendar; schedule all required program meetings, circulate agendas, ensure appropriate participants are invited, record minutes, and distribute action items promptly
• Capture every action item generated in meetings or change control discussions in a centralized tracker; assign owners, set due dates, monitor status weekly, and report outstanding items in the integration-status briefing to the Program Manager
• Chair the project Interface Working Group with responsibilities including setting the agenda, capturing actions/minutes, and controlling vendor participation to protect competitive equity
• Facilitate stakeholder contribution by distributing draft deliverables early enough to allow substantive feedback; capture, track, and document all stakeholder inputs, dispositions, and rationales; maintain transparent communications so that stakeholder concerns are addressed promptly and incorporated into deliverables
• Develop system requirements in collaboration with SMEs and stakeholders
• Analyze mission-level objectives and translate into clear, stakeholder-oriented operational plans (CONOPS)
• Derive stakeholder CONOPS into technical system requirements for delivery to system development vendors
• Strategically review developer's systems designs throughout all phases, including conceptual, preliminary, and detailed designs
• Collaborate on verification and validation test plans and reviews to ensure systems meet customer objectives
• Provide insightful status reports, risk assessments, and identification of opportunities for multiple customer stakeholders

• Must currently hold a TS/SCI and Poly in order to be considered
• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering field (Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, other)
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, and 5 or more years of technical experience on large, multi-vendor government development programs; proven record of leading vendor coordination, interface control, and integration-schedule management
• Demonstrated experience establishing and enforcing government-owned baseline controls (ICDs, IMS, issue logs) and a formal change control process
• Experience supporting $100 million or larger government acquisitions with knowledge of OCI mitigation requirements, government data-rights, and IP considerations
• Proficiency with MS Project (schedule development/maintenance), strong ICD development capabilities, strong competence in action item tracking; MBSE tool experience preferred
• Proven ability to chair multi-vendor technical working groups, produce clear briefings and reports for senior decision makers, exercise independent technical judgement, and proactively surface and resolve issues
• Experience on system development projects of autonomous vehicles is preferred
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Systems Engineer on complex development projects involving hardware and software
• Demonstrated ability translating customer needs into technical requirements for delivery to vendors and system developers
• Experience gathering, implementing, tracking, verifying, and validating system requirements
• Ability to multitask and produce high-quality products under tight deadlines
• Demonstrated initiative and flexibility to work both individually and in a team environment with limited oversight
• Effective…