Description

SAIC seeks a skilled Systems Engineer proficient in Power Systems Engineering and Analysis to join an exciting program and world-class Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) team in Sterling, VA. The successful candidate will be a results-oriented, action-based self-starter with a willingness to learn and the ability to contribute immediately in fast-paced, adaptive, and innovative team environments. They will possess strong interpersonal and excellent communication (listening, verbal, and written) skills, with the ability to develop positive working relationships with project officers, executive-level leaders, and SETA colleagues throughout the customer organization and industry partners. Job responsibilities include providing technical expertise to a large program delivering innovative high-capacity energy storage and delivery capabilities.

Primary tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Provide Power Systems Engineering and programmatic expertise to support technology systems and requirements development, acquisition, integration, prototyping, testing and evaluation, transition, and deployment activities

• Support technical project and systems engineering management, including Concept of Operations (CONOPs) generation, requirements development, and integrated milestone/schedule development

• Support contract management efforts, including the development of technical contract documents to enable awards to industry partners

• Execute reviews of systems development, technical proposals and papers, and use-case-specific CONOPs to ensure compliance with government requirements and risk tolerances

• Compile findings and present recommendations to government project leads

• Participate in and support system, technical, and program status reviews

• Draft formal presentations, proposals, technical papers, meeting agendas, and other formal communications

• Participate in executive-level meetings, discussions, and program briefings

• Develop well-documented, actionable, measurable, testable, and traceable requirements to identify needs or opportunities, and define them to a level of detail sufficient for system design

• Support development and allocation of system requirements to system components and maintain traceability between user and component-level system requirements

• Develop Statements of Work (SOWs) and associated requirements documents

• Provide initial analysis of the generation, transmission, and distribution of electrical power

• Develop analytic judgments such as relevance or vulnerabilities, and prepare briefings/reports documenting the methodology used and the results obtained

• Perform modeling or testing for performance of the systems, including load flow, short circuit, stability, and relay coordination

• Assist with the assessment of development system design and implementation deliverables

• Review technical challenges and propose recommended courses of action

• Provide technical expertise to provide a detailed understanding of current systems and potential system improvements

• Perform analysis and provide recommendations on contractor designs related to power supplies including but not limited to primary and secondary (rechargeable) cells and battery systems

Qualifications

• Must currently hold a TS/SCI and Poly clearance

• Minimum of 9 years of relevant engineering experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering highly preferred, although other technical degrees may be considered

• Experience providing full-life cycle Systems Engineering in support of DoD and/or IC programs

• System development experience in environmentally-constrained energy storage and power systems

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2501997

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability