
Site Representative Systems Engineer
Tucson, AZJob$160–200K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
SAIC seeks a highly experienced Site Representative Systems Engineer to support the Horizon 2 contract and its government acquisition program offices. The role works with customers and project teammates on acquisition, integration, testing, qualification, deployment, and operations as mission systems transition into production. The position is based in Tucson, Arizona, and focuses on systems engineering and manufacturing.
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Description
SAIC has a need for a highly experienced Site Representative Systems Engineer to support to an exciting and impactful customer mission on the Horizon 2 contract. The Horizon 2 contract provides the Government system acquisition program offices Advisory and Assistance Services for various types of weapons systems. This position is available in Tucson, AZ .
The successful candidate will exhibit proactiveness, leaning forward in a high-impact customer mission environment. This position requires strong experience in systems engineering and manufacturing. The candidate will work closely with the customer and other project teammates to support acquisition, integration, test, qualification, deployment, and operations of customer mission systems as they transition into production.
Responsibilities Include:
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Participate in developer reviews, meetings, & boards (technical interchange meetings, manufacturing readiness reviews, change management, etc.), maintaining situational awareness of daily happenings and flowing updates/concerns to the home program office.
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Monitor/overseeing progress on corrective actions, problem closures, change board items, obsolescence issues, diminishing sources, etc.
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Following hardware pedigrees and participating in hardware verification efforts such as first article inspections, functional configuration audits, and physical configuration audits.
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Monitor lab and manufacturing areas, to include build schedules, build progress, and issues that would frustrate the schedule.
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Benchmark known best practices against developer’s processes.
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Review and assess developers manufacturing and transition to production readiness/progress.
Qualifications
This is you:
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Bachelor of Science in Engineering with at least 14 years of experience or Masters and 12 years of experience.
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Technical requirements development, systems engineering, and manufacturing in the design, production, integration and testing of terrestrial and space systems.
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Requirements verification and validation.
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Demonstrated ability to work independently with little to no oversight.
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Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable).
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Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination.
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: 2618734
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 11,789 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$160–200K/yr
- Arizona median$104–182K/yr180 salary ranges
- US median$116–190K/yr8,703 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $180K, is 22% above the Arizona median midpoint ($148K) — in the top quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Arizona.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 273 open Systems Engineer jobs in Arizona and 11,789 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Arizona
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 14 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,870 postings).
- Education
- 4,515 of the 11,789 open Systems Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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