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Senior Systems Engineer

SAIC

Indianapolis, INJob$80–120K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$80–120K/yr
Location
Indianapolis, IN
Work Authorization
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks a senior systems engineer to lead multidisciplinary teams delivering concepts and products for aircraft and other military systems. The role supports government programs throughout their lifecycle, including design, development, integration, testing, and compliance analysis. The engineer translates customer requirements into system specifications while balancing technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Requirements ManagementProject Team ManagementProject TrackingRisk AssessmentCost AssessmentSchedule AssessmentTeam Performance AssessmentDevelopmental TestingQualification TestingTest PlanningTest DocumentationTest SetupTest ExecutionProduct Design ReviewsReview DocumentationTechnical Presentations

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Relevant Engineering or Master'sBachelor's+5 or Master's+3 YearsSecret Security ClearanceU.S. Citizenship

Full job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a well-rounded Systems Engineer Senior to lead a team of EEs, MEs, programmers and other project personnel to deliver concepts and products related to aircraft and other military systems. The candidate will directly support Government program(s) as a systems engineer and/or project lead throughout the entire program lifecycle. The candidate will support all aspects of design to include, but not limited to, design, development, documentation, test and debug of embedded systems and other hardware and software systems. Candidate will be expected to perform engineering investigations, integrate hardware/software components, and is expected to possess excellent communication skills to interface to multi-disciplinary design team. Candidate will also perform detailed trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software or engineering specifications. Candidate will also perform fault analysis and will author analyses to document system compliance with customer requirements. As part of daily duties, candidate ensures the effective team implementation of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of Bachelors degree in relevant engineering discipline and five (5) years or more experience, or Masters degree and three (3) years or more experience

  • Experience with requirement generation, management, allocation, and tracking

  • Strong background with managing engineering development project teams and familiarity with project tracking to assess risk, costs, schedule, and team performance

  • Strong background in developmental and qualification testing of embedded systems, to include test planning, documentation, set up, and execution

  • Strong background in product design review processes, to include preparation of review documentation and products, and presentation of material in a structured development environment (i.e. defense, medical, automotive, etc)

  • Must be able to obtain a minimum of a Secret security clearance; Must be a U.S. citizen

  • Strong background in developmental and qualification testing of embedded systems, to include test planning, documentation, set up, and execution

  • Strong background in developmental and qualification testing of depot and repair, to include test planning, documentation, set up, and execution

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: 2618312

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 10,745 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$80–120K/yr
  • Indiana median$85–158K/yr65 salary ranges
  • US median$115–188K/yr7,938 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $100K, is 17% below the Indiana median midpoint ($120K) — in the lowest quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Indiana.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 98 open Systems Engineer jobs in Indiana and 10,745 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Indiana
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (8,921 postings).
Education
4,703 of the 10,745 open Systems Engineer jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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