**Description** SAIC’s Horizon program is seeking an experienced **SoS Integration Engineer** with deep expertise in systems integration, space-based Space Domain Awareness (SDA), and Space Surveillance & Reconnaissance (S&R) to support the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC). This senior engineer will embed full-time with the Government’s Space Reconnaissance team, helping shape and deliver the next generation of space-based SDA and S&R capabilities. This position is located in El Segundo, CA. You will serve as a systems engineer and technical integrator, working directly with the customer responsible for development and delivery of the next generation GEO-based SDA satellite constellation that will provide reconnaissance and surveillance of resident space objects in and around the GEO-belt. You will join and actively participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to ensure successful integration of space segment, ground segment, external communications, external mission tasking, and external data distribution systems. **Fun stuff you will do on the job:** + Serve as the primary systems engineer for integration of the Reconnaissance at GEO advanced satellite constellation (RG-XX) with tactical command and control, mission planning, space-to-ground satellite communications, mission data processing and distribution, and support elements. + Embed with the development team and participate in program IPTs to influence architecture, design, and implementation for the RG-XX constellation and all system interfaces. + Provide technical oversight of system development and integration efforts (design, development, manufacturing, integration/test, production, sustainment planning) across both traditional and agile/prototype acquisition approaches. + Define and evolve Interface Control Documents (ICDs) to govern system interfaces to enable sensor orchestration, mission execution, and space-ground data fusion. + Guide end-to-end system integration, from space sensor tasking through collection and distribution of actionable information for defensive and offensive space control. + Participate in design reviews, technical interchange meetings, and test planning to ensure integrated capabilities meet warfighter space superiority objectives. + Lead risk management activities—identifying, analyzing, and mitigating technical and programmatic risks associated with RG-XX integration. + Coordinate across USSF, SSC, SpOC, NSDC, and USSPACECOM government agencies, commercial partners, and allied nations to establish cross-domain sensor tasking and data-sharing architectures. **Qualifications** **This is you:** + Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 14 years of experience with: + Engineering, space systems, and related technical disciplines. + SDA systems, including sensor networks, data processing pipelines, analytics platforms, space object tracking techniques, data fusion, orbit determination and prediction, space traffic management, catalog maintenance, and conjunction assessment. + System-of-systems architecture and complex interface integration. + Sensor integration, including knowledge of sensor data formats, sensor calibration, and data processing. + Cloud-based ground architectures and modern C2 concepts (e.g., Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (AaaS). + Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Vetting program (if applicable). + Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and, or Special Access Programs, and consent to a polygraph examination. **You will wow us even more if you have these skills:** + Advanced degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace, or related technical field. + Experience with: + Data analytics techniques, data visualization tools, and machine learning + Cybersecurity, including understanding of threat landscape for SDA systems, familiarity with application of Risk + Management Framework (RMF), and incident response. + SDA technologies, including space-based electro-optical (EO) payloads, operating systems, algorithms and software, and databases for SDA data processing and storage. + Operational space units (e.g., Delta 9, NSDC, JTF-SD, CSpOC). + Supporting USSF/SSC space control or SDA programs. + Prior work in U.S. Government weapons system or space mission program offices, with experience in requirements management, configuration management, change management, testing, and risk management. + Ability to communicate complex SDA information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences. + Professional certifications (e.g., INCOSE CSEP, PE, Agile PM/PO, ITEA CTEP). 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: 2512126 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