What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Systems Engineer position at SAIC?
Job ID 2616331-OTHLOC-100000685975249
Location Hanahan, SC, US
Date Posted 2026-09-21
Category Software
Subcategory SW Systems Engr
Schedule Full-Time
Shift Day Job
Travel Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Secret
Potential for Remote Work ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a Software Systems Engineer to own full stack development and technical maturation of a government software prototype as it transitions from research/prototype status to a Program of Record (PoR) for our customer site in North Charleston, SC.
Job Duties
Required Education and Experience
Location Hanahan, SC, US
Date Posted 2026-09-21
Category Software
Subcategory SW Systems Engr
Schedule Full-Time
Shift Day Job
Travel Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Secret
Potential for Remote Work ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a Software Systems Engineer to own full stack development and technical maturation of a government software prototype as it transitions from research/prototype status to a Program of Record (PoR) for our customer site in North Charleston, SC.
Job Duties
- Resilient System Design Develop distributed systems for secure, reliable operation in degraded, bandwidth-limited, and autonomous environments.
- Full-Stack Development Build and maintain backend services, frontend applications, and infrastructure, hardening prototypes to meet DoD security, scalability, and operational standards.
- Data Security & Compliance Implement secure data pipelines and protocols, ensure RMF compliance, support ATO accreditation, and follow secure development practices like container hardening and CI/CD security.
- Networking & Integration Design segmented networks, real-time communications, hardware integration, and modular deployments for mission-critical applications.
- Operational & Mission Support Create user-centric tools for tactical use, diagnostics, air-gapped provisioning, and deliver scalable, mission-aligned engineering solutions.
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelors and five (5) years or more work experience; (4) four years of additional work experience accepted in lieu of degree.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Go, Python.
- Systems Integration Experience Demonstrated ability to integrate heterogeneous hardware, communications links, containerized software services, and data pipelines into a unified, operationally deployable system. Preferably experience with multi-transport networking, pub/sub architectures, edge-to-cloud data federation, and API/protocol translation across diverse sensor or platform types.
- Active, hands-on use of AI development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar AI coding assistants) as part of daily engineering work.
- Practical experience with cybersecurity-conscious software engineering — secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation, container/infrastructure hardening, or similar.
- Experience taking prototype/research-grade code and maturing it into a production, supportable system.
- Must be a US Citizen, no clearance required to start but must be able to obtain and maintain an active Secret clearance.
- Direct experience supporting an ATO package (SSP development, control implementation, POA&M management, eMASS).
- Experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipeline security.
- Familiarity with DoD software acquisition processes and prototype-to-Program-of-Record transitions.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS GovCloud or similar) in an accredited/compliance-driven context.
- Prior experience in a DoD, IC, or other federal contracting environment.
- Proficiency with React and Rust.
- Familiarity with the general lifecycle of moving a system through security accreditation (RMF, ATO, or equivalent commercial/compliance frameworks), prior direct ATO experience is a strong plus but not mandatory.