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SETA Systems Engineer

SAIC

Chantilly, VAJob$160–200K/yrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$160–200K/yr
Location
Chantilly, VA
Work Authorization
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks a Systems Engineer to support a high-priority national security customer program. The role applies systems engineering experience to customer engineering efforts and operational objectives, including vendor deliverable reviews, requirements development, release testing, governance support, and technical meeting documentation. The candidate must hold a TS/SCI with Poly and have nine years of Systems Engineering/SETA experience. Telecommunications or networks experience is desired.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Systems EngineeringVendor Deliverable ReviewRequirements WritingRelease TestingGovernance SupportTechnical Meeting DocumentationIndependent WorkTeamworkAttention to DetailCustomer ResponsivenessFlexibilityTelecommunicationsNetworks

Qualifications

TS/SCI and PolyBachelor's Degree or Relevant Experience9 Years Systems Engineering/SETA ExperienceTelecommunications/Networks ExperienceTechnical Degree

Full job description

Description

SAIC has an immediate opening for a highly motivated Systems Engineer to support a high-priority customer program with national security significance. In this role you will apply your background to help the customer execute engineering efforts in support of operational objectives. You must be able to operate independently, being self-driven to meet the requirements of the position, but must also be able to work well with other team members. Excellent attention to detail, responsiveness to customers, and support flexibility are key. Telecommunications background is a plus.

Qualifications

  • Must already hold a TS/SCI and Poly in order to be considered

  • Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience can be substituted for the degree

  • 9 years of Systems Engineering/SETA experience

  • Ability to review and provide technical feedback on vendor deliverables and products such as Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, user guides, derived requirements, and test documents

  • Ability to write requirements to support new releases or upgrades for vendor products, mostly for software products

  • Ability to support release testing as a representative of the customer to ensure new releases meet their design objectives

  • Ability to support activities related to the customer's governance and approval process to facilitate new product releases

  • Ability to travel periodically to domestic locations to support program technical meetings and testing activities

  • Ability to capture notes from technical meetings to communicate actions and outcomes

  • Ability to quickly learn the technical nuances of the customer's program to support exchanges with mission partners and the development of inputs to support operations

Desired

  • Experience in the telecommunications/networks field

  • Degree in a technical field (e.g. engineering, telecommunications, etc)

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2617571

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 10,973 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$160–200K/yr
  • Virginia median$120–188K/yr783 salary ranges
  • US median$115–188K/yr8,067 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $180K, is 18% above the Virginia median midpoint ($152K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 997 open Systems Engineer jobs in Virginia and 10,973 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 9 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,115 postings).
Education
4,704 of the 10,973 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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