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Space Protection Mission Engineer

Posted by SAIC • Chantilly, Virginia, United States

📍 Chantilly, Virginia 🕒 March 01, 2026

About the Role

Description

SAIC is seeking a Space Protection Mission Engineer to join the Space and Intelligence Business Group providing systems engineering and technical advisory services to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer. The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground systems, architectures, and hardware and software solutions.

The Space Protection Mission Engineer will serve as the subject matter expert (SME) and System Program Office (SPO) representative coordinating with the development contractor and stakeholders (including end user operators) for deployment of new protection and Indications and Warning (I&W) capabilities into space operations. The Space Protection Mission Engineer collaborates within a team of mission-related SMEs to support system development, requirements verification testing (and sell-off), identification of discrepancies, and mission validation testing.

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