System Engineer
Stafford, VA · HybridJob$80–120K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The System Engineer will analyze equipment for hazards, categorize risk, and recommend mitigations to protect personnel, equipment, and the environment. The role supports Marine Corps weapons systems and platforms in collaboration with government personnel, vendors, and users. Work includes systems safety analysis, safety documentation, requirements and test-plan reviews, operational analysis, and assessment of proposed system changes. This is a hybrid role.
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Description
A successful candidate will work as part of a team analyzing equipment to identify hazards, categorize risk, and recommend mitigations to reduce the probability/severity of a mishap resulting in injury to personnel, equipment damage, and/or damage to the environment. Candidates will collaborate with government personnel, vendors and the user community to ensure the safety of Marine Corps weapons systems and platforms.
This is a hybrid role.
Tasks include:
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Systems safety analysis of hardware and software for US Marines Corps weapons systems.
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Prepare/update Safety Assessment Reports.
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Generate Hazard Logs, Risk Acceptance letters, and Safety Releases in accordance with DoD and Marine Corps requirements.
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Prepare National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation in support of Marine Corps acquisition programs.
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Review System Requirements documentation to identify potential hazardous conditions and make recommendations to system design in collaboration with program staff.
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Perform operational analysis to identify potential deficiencies in operating procedures, training documentation, maintenance procedures, storage and handling procedures, and/or ordnance handling procedures. Make recommendations to commendations to resolve deficiencies.
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Review and make recommendations to test plans to ensure safety requirements are met.
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Assess Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) and other system change requests to identify/verify safety risks.
Qualifications
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or a technical related field, or military experience at E-6 or higher. 5+ years of experience; four (4) additional years of experience in lieu of degree.
Security Clearance:
- Active secret clearance required on the first day.
Qualifications:
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Experience conducting System Engineering Analysis, System Safety Analysis, Risk Management and/or Hazard Analysis.
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Experience working with US Navy or US Marine Corps combat systems or platforms.
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Experience operating, maintaining, testing, or analyzing weapons systems or complex mechanical or software systems.
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Systems Engineering experience with US Navy or US Marine Corps weapons systems.
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Experience preparing technical reports.
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: 2618514
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 11,187 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$80–120K/yr
- Virginia median$120–185K/yr804 salary ranges
- US median$116–186K/yr8,198 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 1,020 open Systems Engineer jobs in Virginia and 11,187 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- SAIC (this employer)98 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (9,476 postings).
- Education
- 4,656 of the 11,187 open Systems Engineer jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 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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