Senior RF Systems Engineer

SAIC has an opening for a Space RF Payload subject matter expert (SME) with in-depth knowledge of digital signal processing, signals, remote sensing, mission analyses, and system engineering.  You will provide subject matter expertise to support customer decisions with respect to contractors’ development of spaceborne RF signal processing payloads, ground processing systems, and overall mission capabilities.   You will work in customer facilities in El Segundo, CA, directly sitting with our customers to provide our support.

 You will perform the following duties and "fun stuff":

• Responsible for acting as primary technical oversight for the development, build, verification and deployment of Space RF payloads, providing Government leadership, as needed, recommend course corrections to the payload design and build through delivery

• Requirements generation

• Evaluation and compliance assessments to generated requirements and requirements flow down.

• Concept design evaluation and analysis of alternatives

• Assessments of Critical Technology Elements (CTE), Technology Readiness Assessments (TRAs) and Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRAs)

• Concept of Operations (CONOPS) development

• Provide technical oversight of payload integration process onto candidate spacecraft

• Provide technical oversight of transition to operations to include the development, operator training, payload initialization and checkout, and on-orbit operations

• Responsible for assessing proposed payload design updates and understanding all performance and spacecraft impacts due to these updates

• Responsible for performing assessments of risk reduction plans associated with improving the maturity of payload design and hardware

• Responsible for working with contacts at prime and subcontractors to ensure work is on schedule and progressing