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Sustainment Product Development Lead

SAIC

El Segundo, CAJob$200–240K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$200–240K/yr
Location
El Segundo, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

T5 Background Investigation, required

Job overview

SAIC seeks a Sustainment/Product Development Lead to support the U.S. Space Force’s Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power portfolio. The lead will serve as a subject matter expert developing and deploying warfighter capabilities, managing system sustainment to maximize readiness while controlling costs. The role coordinates with program managers, contracting officers, system engineers, military users, and partner organizations in El Segundo, California.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Space Operations, requiredLifecycle Sustainment Planning, requiredTechnical Order Development, requiredSpace System Sustainment, requiredTechnical Order Review, requiredTraining Plan Review, requiredMaintenance Task Analysis, requiredLevel of Repair Analysis, requiredProvisioning Documentation Review, requiredIETM Review, requiredFailure Mode Analysis, requiredRAM Analysis, requiredSupply Chain Risk Management, requiredConfiguration Management, requiredProject Management, nice to haveLife Cycle Logistics, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or 4 Additional Years Experience, required14+ Years Space Systems Experience, requiredT5 Background Investigation, requiredSCI Eligibility, requiredContinuous Vetting Enrollment, requiredSCI and SAP Access Nomination, requiredPolygraph Examination, requiredPMP Certification, nice to haveDAU LOG 100–340 Courses, nice to haveDAWIA Logistics Certification Level II or III, nice to have

Full job description

Description

SAIC's Horizon 2 program is seeking our latest Sustainment/Product Development Lead to serve as a subject matter expert in support to the U.S. Space Force (USSF) in developing and deploying warfighter capabilities within the Program Executive Office's Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power portfolio. As our Sustainment/Product Development Lead, you will be responsible for system sustainment to maximize readiness while managing costs. Key responsibilities include developing Life Cycle Sustainment Plans (LCSP), implementing Product Support Strategies, conducting Business Case Analyses, and managing product support contracts, as required, that advance the USSF. You will interact and coordinate daily with numerous stakeholders (Program Managers, Contracting Officers, System Engineers, and external/partner organizations) working in sunny El Segundo, CA .

Fun stuff on the job you will do:

  • Sustainment planning: develop, update, and implement comprehensive Product Support Strategies within the Life Cycle Sustainment Plan.

  • Performance Management: define and manage performance outcomes (reliability, availability, maintainability) and ensure compliance.

  • Logistical and Technical Analysis: conduct technical analysis, manage data, and provide logistics support to optimize system performance and reduce total ownership costs.

  • Stakeholder Coordination: act as a liaison between program managers, engineers, and military users to resolve operational issues and ensure readiness.

  • Risk Mitigation: identify and mitigate supply chain risks and ensure requirements are integrated into maintenance efforts.

Qualifications

This is you:

  • Bachelor's Degree and 14+ years experience with space systems or 4 additional years of experience may be used in lieu of degree

  • Must have experience in space operations

  • Experience developing lifecycle sustainment plans

  • Experience developing technical orders

  • Understanding of space vehicle, ground system, or satellite sustainment challenges

  • Proficiency reviewing and approving:

  • Technical Orders (TOs) – familiarity with Air Force TO system (AFTO) or equivalent service standards preferred

  • Training Plans and Training Support Packages (TSPs)

  • Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA) and Level of Repair Analysis (LORA)

  • Provisioning Technical Documentation (PTD)

  • Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs)

  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

  • Experience with Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) analysis

  • Familiarity with Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)

  • Knowledge of Configuration Management (CM) principles per EIA-649

  • Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Vetting program (if applicable)

  • Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Programs and consent to a polygraph examination (as required)

You will wow us even more if you have these skills:

  • PMP (Project Management Professional)

  • DAU Life Cycle Logistics (LOG) Courses (LOG 100–340)

  • DAWIA Logistics Certification (Level II or III)

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618189

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 1,653 open Product Development jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$200–240K/yr
  • California median$135–200K/yr156 salary ranges
  • US median$115–189K/yr1,072 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $220K, is 30% above the California median midpoint ($169K) — in the top quarter of Product Development salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 197 open Product Development jobs in California and 1,653 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 14 years of experience — more than three in four Product Development postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,316 postings).
Education
903 of the 1,653 open Product Development jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 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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