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Job ID: 2511137
Location: EL SEGUNDO, CA, US
Date Posted: 2025-10-28
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: Top Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Launch Integration Engineer to support the US Space Force in integrating and delivering National Security Space missions into orbit. The position supports the Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power (SDA&CP) Directorate and is located in El Segundo, California.
Fun stuff you will be doing on the job:
This is you:
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .
Job ID: 2511137
Location: EL SEGUNDO, CA, US
Date Posted: 2025-10-28
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: Top Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Launch Integration Engineer to support the US Space Force in integrating and delivering National Security Space missions into orbit. The position supports the Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power (SDA&CP) Directorate and is located in El Segundo, California.
Fun stuff you will be doing on the job:
- Provide critical mission integration services to government mission manager executing the launch mission integration process.
- Work on all aspects of launch from initial planning meetings through launch operations and Day of Launch.
- Help with mission working groups, to include: mission integration, ground operations, flight operations, trailblazer planning/execution, and Day-of-Launch.
- Help provide technical services for mission program reviews, integrated schedule development/management, rehearsal support, and daily status reporting.
- Support development of launch mission planning tasks and develop key program documentation.
- Help with the development of all satellite to launch vehicle interface requirements.
- Review and provide technical evaluations of key mission documents to include: Interface Requirements Documents (IRDs), Interface Control Documents, (ICDs), and Launch base requirements and procedures.
- Prepare contractor statement of works (SOWs) and technical evaluation of contractor proposals.
- Develop, prepare, and deliver documentation and coordinate execution for major Launch Readiness Reviews.
- Track all requirements verification documentation in execution of the launch campaign.
- Help to develop and review technical assessments and presentations for senior leadership reviews.
This is you:
- Bachelors and 2 years of relevant space launch experience.
- Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with other government agencies and mission partners.
- Demonstrated ability to work with, guide, and collaborate across a multi-organizations and multi-disciplined team to deliver integrated solutions and mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Knowledge of satellite Systems Engineering, Design, Integration and Test.
- Knowledge of the mission integration process, to include experience working launch vehicle to space vehicle interfaces, including mechanical, electrical, mission analysis, launch and SV environments, ground operations, space vehicle transportation and processing, launch readiness, mission interface verification between LV and SV.
- Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable).
- Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .
Salary : $120,001 - $160,000