**Description** SAIC is seeking you, our latest experienced **Senior Ground Segment Systems Engineer** to support to the US Space Force (USSF) in developing, deploying, and sustaining a National Security Space system within the Space Systems Command Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power (SSC/SZ) system program office. You will get to work in our sunny office in El Segundo, CA where the system is developed and managed. How fun! **Fun stuff you will do on the job:** + Help shape various systems architecting and engineering activities such as system requirements definition, design, interface management, data architecture development, verification and validation, integration, performance analysis, lifecycle cost analysis & estimation, decision analysis, and physical configuration assessments. + Support customer team execute and manage acquisition strategies, integration, and sustainment of cloud-based software systems with several unique mission partner systems. + Develop, assess, and manage ground segment technical and interface requirements. Manage interface negotiation with external stakeholders. + Oversee requirements and interface verification. + Oversee, assess, and manage software product backlog to meet baseline and emerging requirements. Develop and provide recommendations to prioritize development, augment solutions, and improve developer implementations. + Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. + Support development of system engineering items such as CONOPs, requirements definitions (or features, themes, epics), system testing, algorithm document review, and interfaces to other application development efforts. + Support the development and refinement of acquisition strategies, identify program execution issues and provide recommendations. **Qualifications** **This is you:** + Bachelor of Science in Engineering or relevant discipline and 14 years or more of experience (or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree). + Requires an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Programs and be willing to consent to a polygraph examination. + Experience in Technical program management, systems engineering, and government acquisitions of Space Systems within the Space Control mission area. + Experience working with modern software development processes, such as containerization, orchestration, DevSecOps, and Agile methodologies. + Experience with integration of key ground segment systems, such as a cloud-based Infrastructure, Platform as a Service (PaaS) baselines, and antennas. + Experience with "Zero-Trust" cybersecurity policies and implementation on software and hardware systems. + Experience with Software Systems Engineering, Design, and Architecture Development. + Experience with Software Systems Engineering, Design, and Architecture Development, Agile Software. + Development Techniques and Implementation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Pipelines. Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors. REQNUMBER: 2601379 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