SAIC has an opportunity for an Innovation Engineer to join an elite Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) team supporting an innovations lab in Australia. We need a proactive, detail-oriented systems engineer with superior organizational skills. Relocation assistance is provided as well as housing stipend, cost of living, and other allowances for the duration of the tour. The successful candidate contributes to the success of the government and the SAIC team by:
Providing technical and programmatic support to the government for all lab activities.Providing subject matter expertise to customer leadership on emerging technologies (including AI) and initiatives related to space systems capabilities.Advising customer and enterprise leadership on efficacy of planned lab initiatives (cost, schedule, performance, risk, and opportunities).Advising customer leadership on operational efficiencies, including systematic and innovative allocation of limited resources (e.g., personnel, power, space, and cooling).Representing customer in evaluating impacts to site architecture driven by capability changes and customer decisions; assesses innovative concepts and emerging lab capabilities for potential transition onto operational baselines.Qualifications Required: Must be a US Citizen.Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph, both current within 4 years prior to start.Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) field required (contractual requirement) and nine (9) years or more relevant experience; master's and seven (7) years or more relevant experience.At least seven (7) years of hands-on systems engineering experience, including preparation of necessary system engineering artifacts.Demonstrated expertise across full systems engineering lifecycle and project management.Ability to identify potential engineering opportunities to customer decisionmakers.Demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple tasks and effectively interact with engineers, project managers, support personnel, and senior decisionmakers.Experience gathering and identifying actionable requirements for new capabilities.Familiar with DevOps, DevSecOps, Agile development, and AI; Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering and associated tools.Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment; confident presenting analysis and recommendations to all levels of government.Hands-on JIRA and Confluence experience for intra- and inter-team communications.Expert user in Microsoft Office applications (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, Project, Visio).Desired: IT and cybersecurity familiarity, including cloud operations, layered defense, and risk.Hands-on AI experience, especially model development using large data sets.Active cyber certification at DoD 8140 IAT Level 2 (i.e., Security+ CE).Experience developing briefings, analysis, etc. on short deadlines (8 hours or less).Hands-on experience in an R&D environment as a researcher.Experience supporting senior executive level government officials. #J-18808-Ljbffr