Job Summary
The Innovation Engineer will contribute to the success of the government and SAIC team by providing technical and programmatic support for innovations lab activities, subject matter expertise on emerging technologies, and advising customer leadership on efficacy of planned initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide technical and programmatic support to the government for all lab activities.
* Offer subject matter expertise to customer leadership on emerging technologies (including AI) and initiatives related to space systems capabilities.
* Advise customer and enterprise leadership on operational efficiencies, including systematic and innovative allocation of limited resources.
* Represent 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:
* US Citizenship.
* 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 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 decision-makers.
* Demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple tasks and effectively interact with engineers, project managers, support personnel, and senior decision-makers.
* Experience gathering and identifying actionable requirements for new capabilities.
* Familiarity 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.