Job ID: 2613481
Location: Denver, CO, US
Date Posted: 2026-06-09
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: TS/SCI with Poly
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead to join the National Security and Space Sector (NSS). You would work on a joint Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) crown jewel program providing highly specialized space/counter-space engineering, scientific, and analytical services from DenverAurora, Colorado. We support the Nation’s leading-edge IC and DoD space programs and offer compelling, deep-technical work that has direct influence and impact on program development and operations. Our team has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across a variety of disciplines, including physics, math, RF, optics, space acquisition and operations, and intelligence collection and analysis.
This IPT Lead will work in a collaborative team-focused environment of U.S. Government civilians and contractors solving applied technical problems and developing usable solutions for multiple space-related capabilities and threats. The ideal candidate will:
- Demonstrate the ability to provide technical leadership to teams of SMEs to include providing technical guidance and oversight, mentoring team members, integrating and delivering timely, quality products
- Have excellent written and oral communication skills
- Have experience briefing and interacting with senior government customers
- Have experience creating, writing, integrating, and presenting technical briefings and documents
- Have the ability to decompose problems into analytical tasks
- Have experience with program planning, task decomposition, and resource assignments
This position qualifies for enhanced benefits.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Lead a team of multi-disciplined engineers and analysts in program-specific analyses, foreign threat capabilities and development and research
- Tasking, timelines, status, and deliverables for the IPT across the analysis, threat and phenomenology functions
- Maintain communications and schedule meetings with end-customer offices, coordinate information needs, product delivery timelines and status
- Provide status of IPT projects, tasks, and deliverables to program and immediate government customer management at periodic reviews
- Identify, remove, and/or escalate blockers to team tasks or deliverables
- Participating in intelligence or cross-team product production meetings as required
- Achieving detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications
- Identifying gaps and prioritizing recommendations to achieve program protection objectives
- Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decision making;
- Repeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques
- Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of U.S. national security space capabilities, foreign space capabilities, and counter-space threats;
- Participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews (e.g. PMR, PDR, CDR, etc.) to provide technical recommendations and risk assessments;
- Frequently interacting with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders;
- Developing productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs;
Qualifications
Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, Physics or Mathematics and 14 or more years (12 or more with a Masters, 9 or more with a PhD) of experience in engineering/scientific fields
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In-depth technical expertise in at least two of the following areas: orbital analysis, satellite communication systems, space surveillance technologies, radar systems, and/or optical systems
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Experience with satellite acquisition, development, and operations
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Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
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Experience interacting with the intel community to include reading and applying intel assessments and coordinating with intel community experts
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Experience using STK or similar satellite mission analysis software
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Active TS/SCI Clearance with Special Access eligibility and consent to a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph. US Citizenship is required
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Demonstrated record of effective individual and group work behaviors, with abilities to proactively initiate and operate in dynamic and incompletely defined environments
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Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams of scientists and engineers through adaptive leadership and high emotional intelligence
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Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience conveying technical concepts, results, and summaries to internal customers, external customers, and stakeholders of diverse technical backgrounds
Strongly Desired Skills:
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Masters or Doctorate Degree in Physics, Engineering, or Mathematics
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Experience in space system acquisition or space technology development
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Experience with project or task technical leadership
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Working knowledge of radar and/or optical technologies
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Familiarity with National Security Space architecture (IC and/or DoD)
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Experience using Systems Tool Kit (STK), MATLAB, Linux, Python or COAST/FIST
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Demonstrated proficiency with program-planning processes and tools (such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project)
Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
