Test Engineer
El Segundo, CAJob$140–180K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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SAIC seeks a Test Engineer for the Horizon 2 Program, supporting the U.S. Space Force’s Program Executive Office for Space Combat Power in El Segundo, California. The role provides oversight of government and contractor test events, supports test planning and execution, and coordinates with development contractors and government test organizations to align objectives and methodologies with applicable standards and stakeholder expectations.
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Description
SAIC is seeking a Test Engineer on the Horizon 2 Program to support the United States Space Force's Program Executive Office for Space Combat Power. This position is in El Segundo, CA . If you like test planning, test requirements or just about anything test in the Space and Ground systems work then this could be the right job for you.
Fun stuff you will do on the job:
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Provide Government program office oversight of Government and Contractor test events
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Identify and solve problems facing acquisition organization relating to test events and test organizations
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Contribute to test organization reviews, test reports, and other documentation required to complete test activities
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Document program test strategy and plans, test scenarios and test requirements
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Work with development contractors to ensure developmental test objectives are consistent with applicable standards, instruction and policy
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Work with Government developmental and operational test agencies/organizations to develop the adequate test methodology consistent with the program manager’s expectations and other external stakeholders, as appropriate
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Participate in test working groups which plan, status, and discuss test related matters
Qualifications
This is you:
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Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field and 9 years of relevant experience (4 years of additional experience may be used in lieu of degree) with:
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Technical programs, systems engineering and test policy/execution of large scale space-based and ground-based space systems and/or new start technical demonstration space and ground systems
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Test planning, requirements, process, tool and documentation development
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Department of War Test & Evaluation Standards, Policies, Regulations and Requirements
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In-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Vetting program (if applicable)
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Willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs; consent to a Polygraph examination
Desired Qualifications:
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Master’s Degree in Technical or Management discipline
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Self-starter and independent contributor
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ITEA Certified Test & Evaluation Professional and, or INCOSE Certified Systems Engineer Professional credentials
Target salary range: $140,001 - $180,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618746
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 3,103 open Test Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$140–180K/yr
- California median$125–179K/yr659 salary ranges
- US median$102–161K/yr2,075 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $160K, is 4% above the California median midpoint ($154K) — in the middle half of Test Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 823 open Test Engineer jobs in California and 3,103 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 9 years of experience — more than three in four Test Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,603 postings).
- Education
- 1,685 of the 3,103 open Test Engineer jobs (54%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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