Space Protection Engineer Job at SAIC, Chantilly, Fairfax County, VA

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  • SAIC
  • Chantilly, Fairfax County, VA

Job Description

Salary: $120,000 - 150,000 per year Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree with nine (9) years of experience; Masters degree with seven (7) years of experience; or PhD/JD with four (4) years of experience
  • Current Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph
  • Knowledge in Space Domain Awareness (SDA)
  • Over 3 years of experience in developing, testing, or deploying space and/or ground systems
  • Proficiency in at least one system engineering process area, including requirements development, transition, and testing
Responsibilities:
  • Act as a technical expert for the SPO, overseeing software development, implementation, and deployment of ground processing systems integrated with the NRO space enterprise
  • Write and review I&W system requirements, breaking them down to lower-level SPO requirements while ensuring complete traceability
  • Collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to define SPO requirements and assist software developers in interpreting these requirements
  • Conduct working groups with developers and end users in specified mission areas to formulate operating concepts that drive agile design and development
  • Evaluate the technical progress of software development and shape strategic recommendations based on analysis, including engineering and acquisition trades within development priorities and budget constraints
  • Work with other I&W SMEs to create technical plans and documentation, providing Request for Change (RFC) impact assessments to SPO acquisition plans and schedules
  • Represent the SPO during the software developers Program Increment (PI) planning, pre-planning, sprint close-out, and demonstration events, articulating the SPOs vision and priorities
Technologies:
  • Confluence
  • Hardware
  • Support
  • JIRA

More:

We are a leading technology integrator offering comprehensive life cycle services and solutions across technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology sectors. Our mission at SAIC is to redefine ingenuity through extensive customer and domain expertise, enabling the delivery of systems engineering and integration solutions for large-scale, complex projects. With approximately 15,000 motivated employees dedicated to integrity and mission focus, we serve clients within the U.S. federal government. We are based in Reston, Virginia, and report annual revenues of around $4.5 billion.

last updated 15 week of 2026

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