SAIC

SETA Systems Engineer

SAIC$100K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, etc.)
  • 10+ years of relevant experience, with 5+ years in government development programs
  • Experience with managing multi-vendor integration and schedule controls
  • Proven competency in developing ICDs and managing formal change processes
  • Familiar with government contract acquisitions over $100 million
  • Knowledge of similar systems development, particularly autonomous vehicles, is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Translate system-level requirements into government ICDs while ensuring compliance with architecture
  • Act as primary contact for technical inquiries from industry partners and handle schedule changes
  • Collaborate to ensure ICDs and changes align with system architecture before release
  • Create and update the integrated project schedule in MS Project, monitoring vendor milestones
  • Maintain the project document repository in Confluence with strict version controls
  • Coordinate all program meetings, managing agendas and actions effectively
  • Track and report on action items from meetings, ensuring accountability and follow-up
  • Chair the Interface Working Group, managing vendor participation and agenda control
  • Facilitate early access to draft deliverables for stakeholder input and document feedback
  • Develop system requirements with input from subject matter experts and stakeholders
  • Translate mission objectives into clear operational plans and technical requirements

Benefits

  • Access to advanced professional development opportunities
  • Collaboration with a diverse team of technical experts
  • Engagement in high-stakes government projects
  • Opportunity for leadership in program management
  • Involvement with cutting-edge technology and innovations
  • Support for continuous learning and improvement initiatives
Full Job Description
Job Description

Key Responsibilities:
• 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

Qualifications

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 organizational, written, and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with other components to communicate processes and procedures, and facilitate program requirements
• Outstanding customer service skills to meet high demand requirements

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.
Learn more about SAIC
Size
26,000 employees
Market Cap
$6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$206 million
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+10.7%
Revenue
$6.8 billion
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