What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Space Systems Engineer position at SAIC?
Job ID: 2612712
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-05-18
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a Jr. Space Systems Engineer to supports it Prime Program, Landmark AOS in Chantilly, VA. Landmark AOS is a large SETA program, supporting the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborating in the development of artifacts and documents, including CONOPS and architecture products to support acquisition-level requirements and interface specifications for GEOINT/SIGINT/Multi-INT systems.
- Reviewing, assessing, and determining impacts on enterprise, functional, and system-level design requirements, interfaces, architectures, CONOPS, and verification plans.
- Evaluating acquisition-level requirements, designs, architectures, CONOPS, and verification plans to ensure the implementation aligns with customer requirements, interface definitions, concepts, and reference architecture.
- Contributing to the development of enterprise and functional-level requirements.
- Managing and maintaining architectures, CONOPS, and requirements through enterprise configuration management boards and approved RFC processes.
- Demonstrating an understanding of the overall systems engineering process.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelors and 0 years related experience.
- Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Polygraph.
- 3 years if Prior professional information technology support experience
- Effective communication, coordination, and customer engagement skills
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team building and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to be effective in a government/contractor team environment
- Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment.
- Self-motivated professional capable of executing tasks with minimal guidance