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Process Systems Engineer

SAIC

Hampton, VAJob$80–120K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$80–120K/yr
Location
Hampton, VA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks a Process Systems Engineer for its Air Operations Center Weapons System Falconer Program. The role focuses on engineering lifecycle management, business process re-engineering, and translating stakeholder requirements. The engineer will support modification and sustainment of AOC WS baselines, manage lifecycle tools, and work with government customers, contractors, and software development teams.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Systems EngineeringConfiguration ManagementMission PlanningSchedulingData NormalizationData StandardizationData IntegrityWorkflow AnalysisLeanSix SigmaSystems ThinkingProcess OptimizationStakeholder ConsensusActive ListeningTechnical WritingSOP DevelopmentProcess PlaybooksTraining DocumentationPresentationInstructional Design

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Engineering or Master's in Engineering3+ Years Experience With Bachelor's1+ Years Experience With Master'sActive Secret Clearance

Full job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Process Systems Engineer to join our team of the Air Operations Center Weapons System (AOC WS) Falconer Program. The ideal candidate will drive optimization, continuous improvement, and systems-level thinking across our enterprise programs. Unlike traditional IT infrastructure roles, this position focuses on engineering lifecycle management, business process re-engineering, and stakeholder requirement translation.

This position requires technical engineering experience, with a demonstrated understanding and application of systems engineering and configuration management principles and processes, mission planning/scheduling along with experience in systems engineering and sustainment of existing baselines. The position requires an understanding of data normalization and standardization, data integrity, and data and workflow identification and analysis. The successful candidate will be effective at face-to-face interaction with customers and other contractors to respond to requests for information, support technical meetings, technical interchanges and enterprise working groups.

Additionally, the candidate will provide the following modification and sustaining engineering design and analysis services in order to modify and sustain the fielding AOC WS baselines:

  • Review, analyze and recommend solutions with regard to Government requirements and design documentation.

  • Review, analyze and provide oversight of the Government plans, procedures and execution, provide Systems Engineering services to manage the Governments Product Lifecycle Management Tool (PLMT) or any other Government approved lifecycle tools used during the design, integration and testing of the AOC.

  • Ensure that all tools used in designing, developing, integrating or testing baseline releases are integrated with the Government PLMT and other Government approved tools.

  • Leverage Lean/Six Sigma principles and systems-thinking methodologies to bridge business operations and technical capabilities.

  • Must be able to work independently and represent the program and SAIC at meetings and working groups with government and associate contractors.

  • The candidate must be able to effectively interface with software developers and have a good understanding of how to communicate systems engineering requirements to software development teams.

Qualifications

Typical Education and Experience:

  • Bachelors in Engineering and 3-5 years or more experience; Masters Engineering 1-3 years or more experience.

  • Active Secret Clearance.

  • Strong understanding of Systems Engineering Lifecycles and structured process improvement frameworks (Lean, Six Sigma).

  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex, multi-tiered technical environments from a process optimization lens.

  • Proven track record facilitating stakeholder consensus across disparate functional areas and leadership tiers.

  • Exceptional elicitation, active listening, and technical writing skills.

  • Hands-on experience developing SOPs, process playbooks, and functional training documentation.

  • Strong presentation and instructional design capabilities with technical and non-technical audiences.

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618749

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 11,502 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$80–120K/yr
  • Virginia median$120–185K/yr834 salary ranges
  • US median$116–190K/yr8,484 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $100K, is 34% below the Virginia median midpoint ($152K) — in the lowest quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,052 open Systems Engineer jobs in Virginia and 11,502 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,604 postings).
Education
4,559 of the 11,502 open Systems Engineer jobs (40%) 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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