Senior Systems Engineer

Job ID: 2613895

Location: San Diego, CA, US

Date Posted: 2026-06-22

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is looking for a cleared Systems Engineering candidate to provide technical assistance and recommendations regarding the planning, implementation, and management of Battlespace Awareness and Information Operations (BAIO) Programs of Record within the Naval Intel, C2, Cyber, and Information Operations (NIC3IO) under Program Acquisition Executive Mission Systems. Support includes providing high quality engineering advisory services as they relate to evaluating requirements, training and planning support, assisting in the development of doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures, advocating requirements in support of future effects-based warfare, assessment of Research & Development (R&D) and Science and Technology (S&T) efforts.

Analyze required system capabilities to determine integration requirements and define challenges and develop plans to address requirements

Use operational experience and technical expertise to collaborate with the Functional Team Lead for assessing requirements, designing, executing, developing, and integrating technical solutions on manned and unmanned platforms.

Conduct systems / system of systems architecture design, integration, testing, experimentation, implementation, integration, and cyber certification activities

Assist in development and revisions of systems technical documentation during system development

Provide systems engineering and technical support for ongoing Information Operations and advanced technology developments and policies to the Navy Customer.

Interface with various levels of program leadership: project managers, task and functional leaders, and product owners.

Control of interface requirements to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve the quality of programs and projects

Provide analysis of emerging capabilities and software tools to enhance system of systems capabilities.

Support Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Engineering teams to develop digital representations and models of the system to support interface development.

Provide subject matter expertise for development of Fleet employment of Information Operations and related systems to include CONOP, CONEMP, and OPTASK development.

Provide subject matter expertise support in meetings, technical working groups, technical exchange meetings, and Commander's Update Briefs.

Provide assessments, advanced development priorities, and the review of R&D and S&T programs, proposals, projects, and others as directed.

Communicate requirements, work products, progress, and deliverables schedules to senior level civilians and military personnel

Qualifications

Required Skills, education and experience

Ability to work with and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders, government technical representatives, and other supporting contractors; excellent written and oral communications; ability to work independently or in a team collaborative environment; ability to brief senior government personnel.

Bachelor's degree in science, engineering or math and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience. Applicable experience is acceptable in lieu of advanced education.

TS/SCI clearance

Desired Skills and Certifications

Prior Military experience with BAIO systems

Prior experience with unmanned systems and unmanned payloads

INCOSE ASEP/CSEP

Understanding of NIC3IO / PAE Mission Systems organization structure, programs of records and mission focus.

Basic familiarity of PoR, DOD, U.S. Navy acquisition documents.

Basic familiarity with SysML and MBSE

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.