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# Space Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Science Applications International Corporation
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $80,001.0 - $120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Configuration Management, Signals Intelligence, Geospatial Intelligence
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/26d1169f-63e5-4769-bf56-fd7929541f19

## About the Role

Required Education and Experience:

 * Bachelor's Degree in business, engineering, science, or related discipline and 0 years of experience.
 * with the ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI Clearance with the ability to obtain a Polygraph.
 * Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, work complex issues, and meet deadlines.
 * Demonstrated capability and success applying collaborative problem solving & execution skills to multiple projects simultaneously.
 * Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
 * Ability to prepare and present various types of reports to all levels of Management.
 * Willingness to take on additional responsibilities as needed.
 * Good working knowledge of MS Office applications.

## Description

* Developing artifacts and documents.
 * Developing CONOPS and architecture products in support of acquisition-level requirements and interfaces specifications for GEOINT/SIGINT/Multi-INT systems.
 * Developing enterprise and functional-level requirements.
 * Reviewing, assessing, and determining impacts to enterprise, functional, and system level design requirements, interfaces, architectures, CONOPS and verification plans for adequacy of implementation of customer requirements, interface definitions, concepts and reference architecture.
 * Supporting and maintaining architectures, CONOPS and requirements through enterprise configuration management boards and approved RFC processes.


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