Jobs at SAIC

• Serve as the primary liaison, responsible for reporting to and coordinating with U.S. government representatives at various levels to ensure effective communication and project alignment.
• Guarantee that all deliverables are completed on schedule, meet specified quality standards, and remain within budget constraints.

• Work on deployable IT systems that communicate over satellite.
• Development and integration of new software and technology.

Job ID 2615461

Location Santa Maria, CA, US

Date Posted 2026-08-10

Category Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory Hardware Engr

Schedule Full-Time

Shift Day Job

Travel Yes - 25% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain None

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• Build and support — Help design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure under the guidance of senior team members.
• Contribute to ownership — Take on well-scoped pieces of larger projects, with support from senior engineers as complexity increases.

• This position is for a contingent offer and is dependent upon contract award. SAIC is currently pursuing this opportunity, and employment is contingent upon the successful award of the contract to SAIC and your ability to meet the required qualifications.
• The selected candidate must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph

• Manage and oversee all production activities
• Ensure production schedules are developed, maintained, and executed on time and within budget

• Participate across all phases of the software development lifecycle, including scope and work estimation, design, documentation, implementation, testing, integration, and sustainment.
• Design and develop new applications aligned to Sponsor mission requirements.

• Work with Agile software development tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Trello) to manage backlogs, sprints, and collaborative work.
• Championing Agile processes within the feature teams, facilitating ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.

• Provide comprehensive payload and space vehicle engineering support to Government mission managers across all lifecycle phases—from initial concept development through active flight operations and logistics.
• Develop, maintain, and execute detailed program plans to guide constellation deployment and ope...

• Hold consistent, substantive one-on-ones, build a development plan with each engineer, and create the assignments and opportunities that move them toward it
• Give direct, timely, specific feedback in a way that makes clear you are invested in the person receiving it, and ask for the same about your own leadership

• Software development oversight — Interface with Government customers, SETA partners, FFRDCs, and development contractors to oversee GEOINT software development, integration, and delivery aligned with requirements and architectural direction.
• Mission management portfolio leadership — Maintain cognizance of GEOINT mission management effo...

• Develops and implements data analytics techniques and applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software.
• Experience with AI/ML to design, train, test, and deploy AI and ML models to extract insights and predictions from structured, unstructured, and classified data sources. Apply techniques such as natural language processing (NLP), image recognition, neural networks, and predictive analytics to enhance decision-making processes across diverse DoD missions

• Database installation, configuration, and upgrading.
• Routine maintenance such as backups, recovery, and patch management.

• Develops and implements data analytics techniques and applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software.
• Experience with AI/ML to design, train, test, and deploy AI and ML models to extract insights and predictions from structured, unstructured, and classified data sources. Apply techniques such as natural language processing (NLP), image recognition, neural networks, and predictive analytics to enhance decision-making processes across diverse DoD missions

• Ensure the maximum availability, stability and health of required program resources below to support operations, experimentation, development and testing.
• JFN MLS operational architecture including nodes, hub, network, software baseline and CI/CD apparatus (e.g. IL-5 up to IL-7 Cloud.

• Providing incident response using multiple software applications, including Remedy.
• Providing installation, tuning, testing, operating, monitoring, upgrading, patching, break/fix, defense, and management of WAN and LAN routing and switching infrastructure hardware and software including network hardware and software.

• Design and implement modern, responsive, and accessible UI solutions using frameworks like React, Angular, or VueJS, alongside HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Translate user needs into intuitive interfaces using wireframes, prototypes, and design systems.

• Delivering and managing the SOF Enterprise’s foundational data infrastructure to enable data transformation into actionable insights and critical strategic assets.
• Leading comprehensive data, infrastructure, and engineering management efforts to ensure system scalability and stability.

• Provide technical expertise and systems integration support to ensure an optimal integrated GPS System design.
• Contribute to the overarching approach and processes for integrating, synchronizing, tracking and analyzing dependencies across programmatic and organizational boundaries.

• Develop, customize, and maintain SharePoint solutions across modern and legacy environments, including SharePoint 2013, 2019, and SharePoint Online.
• Design front-end interfaces using web standards, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, React, and other related technologies.