Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Math, or Aerospace Engineering with extensive experience in relevant fields.
14+ years of experience for Bachelor's or 12+ years for Master's in spaceborne RF payloads and signal processing.
Proven ability to analyze and resolve technical issues in RF technology.
Working knowledge of orbital mechanics and environmental impacts on RF payloads.
Experience applying Systems Engineering principles to payload development and integration.
Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with peers and customer leadership.
Must pass security background checks and be eligible for Sensitive Compartment Information access.
Responsibilities
Act as primary technical oversight for the development and deployment of Space RF payloads.
Generate and assess requirements for payload development.
Conduct evaluations and compliance assessments for generated requirements.
Perform concept design evaluations and analyze alternatives.
Assess Critical Technology Elements and conduct Technology Readiness Assessments.
Develop Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for payloads.
Oversee payload integration onto spacecraft and transition to operations.
Benefits
Ongoing application acceptance with no deadline.
Opportunity to work directly with customers in a collaborative environment.
Full Job Description
Job Description
Description
SAIC has an opening for a Space RF Payload subject matter expert (SME) with in-depth knowledge of digital signal processing, signals, remote sensing, mission analyses, and system engineering. You will provide subject matter expertise to support customer decisions with respect to contractors' development of spaceborne RF signal processing payloads, ground processing systems, and overall mission capabilities. You will work in customer facilities in El Segundo, CA, directly sitting with our customers to provide our support.
You will perform the following duties and "fun stuff":
Responsible for acting as primary technical oversight for the development, build, verification and deployment of Space RF payloads, providing Government leadership, as needed, recommend course corrections to the payload design and build through delivery.
Requirements generation.
Evaluation and compliance assessments to generated requirements and requirements flow down.
Concept design evaluation and analysis of alternatives.
Assessments of Critical Technology Elements (CTE), Technology Readiness Assessments (TRAs) and Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRAs).
Concept of Operations (CONOPS) development.
Provide technical oversight of payload integration process onto candidate spacecraft.
Provide technical oversight of transition to operations to include the development, operator training, payload initialization and checkout, and on-orbit operations.
Responsible for assessing proposed payload design updates and understanding all performance and spacecraft impacts due to these updates.
Responsible for performing assessments of risk reduction plans associated with improving the maturity of payload design and hardware.
Responsible for working with contacts at prime and subcontractors to ensure work is on schedule and progressing.
Qualifications
This is you:
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a technical field such as Physics, Math, or Aerospace Engineering with 14 years or more of experience in relevant field or Master's degree in electrical engineering or a technical field such as Physics, Math, or Aerospace
Engineering with 12 years or more of experience.
Experience with spaceborne RF payloads, signal processing, signals, mission data processing.
Ability to analyze, discover and find solutions for technical issues in relevant technology.
Working knowledge of orbital mechanics and environmental effects on spaceborne RF payloads.
Experience applying Systems Engineering principals to the execution of payload development, build and I&T onto spacecraft.
Good communication skills to peers and customer leadership.
Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable).
Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination.
Great additional background and skills:
16 years or more of experience with RF payloads.
Experience with integration & test of spaceborne RF payloads onto spacecraft.
Familiarity with DoW acquisition processes.
Experience as a project manager on space payload program or IPT.
Ability to generate link budgets for end-to-end space to ground Comm systems and / or RF Payloads.
Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. 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.
About SAIC
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a technology integrator in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC has approximately 26,000 employees and operates in more than 70 countries. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. SAIC provides services to the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and civilian agencies. The company also serves commercial customers in the healthcare, energy, and financial services sectors.
