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Senior Technical Advisor
Description:
SAIC is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team. SE&I provides engineering, integration, technical analysis, and subject matter expertise support to the US Space Force and Department of Defense (DoD) agencies.
As a member of our PNT SE&I team, you’ll work in a fast-paced environment with government personnel and system developers to ensure that Global Positioning System (GPS) remains the gold standard for positioning, navigation, and timing. A successful candidate will collaborate and communicate with the SE&I leadership team to ensure processes and products are delivered with quality and professionalism.
Major duties of this position include:
- Provide engineering expertise to the team to accomplish:
- Support the development of future GPS & PNT capabilities
- Architect policy that drives acquisition of future GPS & PNT technology
- Support of GPS enterprise testing
- Support of PNT Enterprise: capabilities, requirements, architectures, concepts, designs, and technologies
- Collaborate with the government team, other program government leads, external organizations, and prime contractors
- Actively participate as a Subject Matter Expert in the GPS requirements process
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or equivalent technical discipline and eighteen (18) years of systems integration and systems engineering related or equivalent experience
- Active TS clearance
- GPS experience
- Demonstrated understanding of System Engineering practices, techniques, policies, and procedures
- Demonstrated experience working with or for the government
- Demonstrated experience writing and delivering technical documents
Desired:
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Graduate or Doctoral degree in math, science, or engineering
- Experience with MS Visual Studio C++, Python, and MATLAB
- Experience and familiarity working with DoD acquisition organizations
- Experience working specifically on a Systems Engineering and Integration contract
- Experience and familiarity working with Space Systems Command
- Experience and familiarity working with cryptography and cryptographic systems
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