SAIC is seeking a
GEOINT Ground Processing Systems Engineer to join SAIC's Prime SETA program supporting the NRO in Chantilly, VA .
Key Responsibilities
- Perform end-to-end engineering and analysis across GEOINT ground processing threads, ensuring technical and operational coherence from collection tasking through mission processing and product delivery.
- Support definition, decomposition, and baselining of GEOINT ground capabilities, including requirements, CONOPS, interfaces, sequencing, and dependency mapping.
- Provide technical oversight of contractor development, integration, and verification activities to ensure alignment with Government requirements and architectural direction.
- Analyze operational workflows, identify performance gaps, and recommend enhancements to improve mission throughput, resiliency, automation, and processing efficiency.
- Support technical reviews, test events, readiness milestones, and enterprise integration activities to validate capability delivery and operational suitability.
- Maintain cognizance of GEOINT mission projects, including baselines, schedules, interdependencies, risks, and cost drivers across the Ground Enterprise.
- Conduct trade studies, evaluate emerging technologies, and shape future GEOINT ground architectures, including cloud-native modernization and service-based designs.
- Evaluate impacts to cost, schedule, performance, and risk across mission threads and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Review contractor proposals, technical reports, design artifacts, and program plans for feasibility, compliance, and alignment with enterprise priorities.
- Coordinate across Government, SETA, FFRDC, and contractor teams to ensure alignment with strategic priorities, operational needs, and enterprise performance standards.
Qualifications Required Education & Experience
- 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. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
- Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph.
- Experience with GEOINT systems, including space/ground architectures, mission control, and mission processing.
- Knowledge of IC/DoD acquisition processes, roles, and program management.
- Experience with GEOINT ground processing capabilities and mission-thread workflows.
- Domain knowledge in ground software, space development programs, or mission operations.
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) programs.
- Ability to operate independently, manage multiple priorities, and deliver high-quality engineering products with minimal guidance.
Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Overview SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
