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Senior Systems Integrator

SAIC

Huntsville, ALJob$120–160K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$120–160K/yr
Location
Huntsville, AL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Top Secret clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks a Senior Systems Integrator to support its Huntsville team on Army Aviation systems engineering. The role covers requirements definition, system architecture and design, verification, and engineering artifacts using a Modular Open Systems Approach. It also involves leading cross-functional teams and customer interactions, mentoring junior engineers, and following the Department’s Systems Engineering Lifecycle process. A bachelor’s degree with ten years of experience, or four years of experience in lieu of a degree, is specified.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

MBSEModeling ProcessesCross-Functional LeadershipRisk AssessmentVulnerability AssessmentSecurity FrameworksAnalytical SkillsProblem-SolvingCommunicationCollaborationAvionics

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or 4 Years' Experience10 Years' ExperienceActive Secret Clearance or Ability to Obtain Top Secret

Full job description

Description

SAIC is currently looking for a Senior Systems Integrator to support our team located in Huntsville, AL.

The Systems Engineer Journeyman will be responsible for but not limited to the following responsibilities:

  • Performs Systems Engineering activities related to Army Aviation including concept of operations formulation, requirements definition, analysis, system architecture, system analysis and design, interface and data architecture, validation and verification utilizing a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA).

  • Ensures the logical and systematic conversion/decomposition of government customer requirements into actionable solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

  • Ability to produce Engineering artifacts such as Architecture Description Document (ADD), System/Subsystem Specification (SSS), Software/Hardware Requirements Specifications (SRS/HRS), Concept of Operations, (CONOPS) and Interface Control Documents (ICD).

  • Experience with MBSE and modeling processes (Camero Enterprise Architect), Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, State Machines...etc.

  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams to achieve product deliveries according to schedules while mentoring and advising junior engineers. Ability to lead customer interactions, briefings, and demonstrations.

  • Ensure that engineering efforts follow the Department’s Systems Engineering Lifecyle process.

  • Work in a multifaceted team with many stakeholders (engineering, logistics and program leadership) in problem solving efforts for designated aspects of complex problems with many competing objectives, variables, and constraints.

Qualifications

Required Education:

  • Bachelor's degree and ten (10) years’ experience; four (4) years of experience in lieu of degree.

Required Clearance:

  • Must possess an active Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance.

Required Skills:

  • Experience with MBSE and modeling processes

  • Experience leading cross-functional teams to achieve product deliveries according to schedules

  • Proficiency in risk assessment methodologies, vulnerability assessment tools, and security frameworks

  • Possesses excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex situations and provide practical solutions.

  • Effective communication skills to convey technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Possess a collaborative attitude with the ability to work across different teams and departments.

Desired Skills:

  • Avionics experience either hardware or software.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618486

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 10,995 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$120–160K/yr
  • Alabama median$109–191K/yr223 salary ranges
  • US median$116–186K/yr8,078 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $140K, is 7% below the Alabama median midpoint ($150K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Alabama.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 366 open Systems Engineer jobs in Alabama and 10,995 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Alabama
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (9,191 postings).
Education
4,697 of the 10,995 open Systems Engineer jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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