Space Radar System Engineer Job at SAIC, Aurora, CO

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  • SAIC
  • Aurora, CO

Job Description

Salary: $160,001 - 200,000 per year Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree in physics, engineering, or mathematics
  • 14 or more years of hands-on experience in analyzing and interpreting radar systems and data
  • Active TS/SCI Clearance with Special Access eligibility and willingness to undergo a Counter Intelligence (CI) polygraph
  • Demonstrated expertise in analytic problem-solving related to radar data exploitation for space objects
  • Familiarity with radar data products, signal processing techniques, and scattering phenomenology
  • Fundamental grasp of astrodynamics and space systems
  • Proficient in relevant software tools or programming languages for space systems, such as Systems Tool Kit, MATLAB, Python, C++, or similar
  • Strongly Desired Skills:
  • Masters or Doctorate degree in Physics or Engineering
  • Knowledge of U.S. Intelligence Community resources and products
  • Experience with space system acquisitions or space technology development
  • Background in project or task technical leadership
Responsibilities:
  • Conduct specialized technical studies related to radar systems, targets, and data products to provide assessments and actionable solutions for program managers or satellite operators
  • Lead and engage in complex physics-based modeling, simulation, and analysis, while conducting technical trade-offs
  • Cultivate and maintain extensive knowledge of U.S. national security space, foreign space, counter-space threats, and space surveillance and identification
  • Represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews to deliver technical recommendations and risk assessments
  • Interact frequently with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs, and external stakeholders
  • Build and maintain productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD colleagues, and other SMEs
  • Consistently apply technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques
Technologies:
  • Matlab
  • Python
  • Security
  • Support

More:

We are SAIC, a premier technology integrator offering full life cycle services and solutions in technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. We are redefining ingenuity by leveraging our deep customer and domain knowledge to deliver systems engineering and integration solutions for large, complex projects. Our team of approximately 15,000 employees emphasizes integrity and mission focus to serve customers across the U.S. federal government. Based in Reston, Virginia, we generate annual revenues of around $4.5 billion and provide compelling work that has a direct impact on critical space programs from our Aurora, Colorado location.

last updated 14 week of 2026

Job Tags

Full time, For contractors, Work at office

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