Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Microelectronics Systems Engineer to support the Principal Director, Microelectronics in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E). The systems engineer’s primary role is to support the Government Principal Director for Microelectronics in development of Microelectronics policy and guidance, standards, congressional reports, studies, interagency coordination, and strategy documents.

Job responsibilities, include, but are not limited to:

•Lead content development for Microelectronics policy and guidance, standards, and issuance updates

•Support Government Principal Director in development of strategy, issue papers, briefings, and funding options and alternatives

•Lead development of reports, studies, and strategy documents mandated by Congress for the Department of Defense (DoD) Trusted and Assured Microelectronics (T&AM) program, the Microelectronics Commons program, and related Microelectronics activities

•Review and coordinate on DoD Issuances for Hardware Assurance and Microelectronics considerations

•Coordinate with T&AM Technical Execution Leads on technical and programmatic issues and opportunities

•Assist with evaluation of technical approaches to solving assurance issues facing the DoD weapon system acquisition community

•Engage stakeholder community across Services, industry, and academia to identify microelectronics technologies and applications that align with T&AM program objectives

•Develop and/or provide input and recommendations to Microelectronics abstracts, briefs, information papers, and whitepapers

•Develop content for responses to external inquiries (e.g., GAO, DoD Office of the Inspector General, NSC, Congressional)

Qualifications

•Secret security clearance

•Degree(s) in an engineering discipline or related field

•BS and 15 years of experience; Master’s and 12 years of experience; PhD and 9 years of experience

•Experience in preparing, coordinating, and presenting briefings

•Experience at OSD, the Joint Staff, or Service HQ staff

•Demonstrated knowledge of the DoD organizational structure and budgeting process, OSD inter-office coordination, and communication protocols

Desired Qualifications

•Degree(s) in electrical engineering, computer engineering, systems engineering, or related field

•Experience in planning and coordination of technical reviews, panels, or similar meetings with diverse participants

•Experience in quantitative methods for hardware assurance, supply chain risk management, or policy and standards development

•At least 10 years of DoD acquisition experience

•At least 5 years working in microelectronics design, semiconductor device fabrication and/or foundry operations, radiation-hardened electronics, radio frequency electronics, electro-optical electronics, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), defense electronics industrial base or related areas

Top Secret security clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI.