What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physicist position at SAIC?
Job ID 2616601
Location Crane, IN, US
Date Posted 2026-09-08
Category Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory Physicist
Schedule Full-Time
Shift Day Job
Travel No
Minimum Clearance Required Interim_Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Secret
Potential for Remote Work ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is looking for a Physicist to support the US Navy in Crane, IN.
Job Responsibilities
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND CLEARANCE
Location Crane, IN, US
Date Posted 2026-09-08
Category Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory Physicist
Schedule Full-Time
Shift Day Job
Travel No
Minimum Clearance Required Interim_Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Secret
Potential for Remote Work ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is looking for a Physicist to support the US Navy in Crane, IN.
Job Responsibilities
- Support airborne lot testing and space applications, including programming files and assisting with vibration testing
- Become proficient in battery test methods, including monitoring points, switching, circuit protections, wattage management, and time correlation
- Apply practical physicist application focus to engineering tasks, avoiding theoretical approaches
- Conduct Big Data analysis to obtain predictive analysis, identify indicators of known and emerging failure modes, and better predict end-of-life characteristics of lithium-ion aircraft and space cells/batteries, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of various battery chemistries
- Assist other analysts in utilizing analytic platforms as needed
- Present findings, approaches, and processes to team members
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND CLEARANCE
- Bachelor's degree with 2 or more years of experience, or a Master's degree and zero.
- Effective communication skills with all levels of personnel; able to work independently and as part of a team
- Interim Secret clearance required to start, with the ability to obtain a Secret clearance. SAIC will sponsor the process
- US Citizenship
- Proficiency in LabView, MatLab, and C - Prior experience supporting DoD and/or NSWC Crane
- Strong Computer Science skills to develop and maintain data pipelines using Power BI, R, Python, SQL, etc., and implement quality control checks
- Experience with GitHub and Microsoft DevOps for version control of code
- Ability to apply practical physicist and electrical engineering skills to testing tasks