What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Engineer Principal position at SAIC?
Job ID 2614123
Location San Diego, CA, US
Date Posted 2026-06-30
Category Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory Systems Engineer
Schedule Full-Time
Shift Day Job
Travel Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required TS.SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain None
Potential for Remote Work ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is looking for a cleared Systems Engineering candidate to lead an engineering team in providing technical assistance and recommendations regarding the planning, implementation, and management of Battlespace Awareness and Information Operations (BAIO) Programs of Record within the Program Executive Office, Command, Control, Computers, Communications, and Intelligence (PEO C4I). Support includes providing high quality engineering advisory services as they relate to evaluating requirements, training and planning support, assisting in the development of doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures, advocating requirements in support of future effects-based warfare, assessment of Research & Development (R&D) and Science and Technology (S&T) efforts.
Required Skills, education and experience
Ability to work with and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders, government technical representatives, and other supporting contractors; excellent written and oral communications; ability to work independently or in a team collaborative environment; ability to brief senior government personnel.
Location San Diego, CA, US
Date Posted 2026-06-30
Category Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory Systems Engineer
Schedule Full-Time
Shift Day Job
Travel Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required TS.SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain None
Potential for Remote Work ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is looking for a cleared Systems Engineering candidate to lead an engineering team in providing technical assistance and recommendations regarding the planning, implementation, and management of Battlespace Awareness and Information Operations (BAIO) Programs of Record within the Program Executive Office, Command, Control, Computers, Communications, and Intelligence (PEO C4I). Support includes providing high quality engineering advisory services as they relate to evaluating requirements, training and planning support, assisting in the development of doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures, advocating requirements in support of future effects-based warfare, assessment of Research & Development (R&D) and Science and Technology (S&T) efforts.
- Manage a team of cross-functional engineering disciplines in the delivery of Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance capabilities to the government customer.
- Analyze required system capabilities to determine integration requirements and define challenges and develop plans to address requirements
- Use operational experience and technical expertise to collaborate with the Functional Team Lead for assessing requirements, designing, executing, developing, and integrating technical IO solutions on manned and unmanned platforms.
- Conduct systems / system of systems architecture design, integration, testing, experimentation, implementation, integration, and cyber certification activities
- Assist in development and update of IO systems technical documentation during system development
- The contractor shall provide systems engineering and technical support for ongoing Information Operations and advanced technology developments and policies to the Navy IO Customer.
- Interface with various levels of program leadership project managers, task and functional leaders, and product owners.
- Control of interface requirements to reduce costs, increasing efficiency, and improving the quality of the programs and projects
- Provide analysis of capabilities and software tools
- Support Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Engineering teams to develop digital representations and models of the system to support interface development.
- Provide subject matter expertise for development of Fleet employment of Information Operations and related systems to include CONOP, CONEMP, and OPTASK development.
- The Contractor shall provide subject matter expertise support in meetings, technical working groups, technical exchange meetings, and Commander’s Update Briefs.
- Provide assessments, advanced development priorities, and the review of R&D and S&T programs, proposals, projects, and others as directed.
- Communicate requirements, work products, progress, and deliverables schedules to senior level civilians and military personnel.
Required Skills, education and experience
Ability to work with and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders, government technical representatives, and other supporting contractors; excellent written and oral communications; ability to work independently or in a team collaborative environment; ability to brief senior government personnel.
- Bachelor’s Degree and Science, Engineering or Math and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience. Applicable experience is acceptable in lieu of advanced education.
- TS/SCI clearance
- Prior Military experience with BAIO systems
- Prior experience with unmanned systems and unmanned payloads
- INCOSE ASEP/CSEP
- Experience using the Rational DOORS requirements management tool
- Understanding of PEO C4I / NAVWAR organization structure, programs of records and mission focus.
- Basic familiarity of PoR, DOD, U.S. Navy acquisition documents.
Salary : $160,001 - $200,000