Senior Communications Project Engineer

Job ID 2612296

Location Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted 2026-05-07

Category Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory Systems Engineer

Schedule Full-Time

Shift Day Job

Travel Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required TS.SCI_wPoly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain None

Potential for Remote Work ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Communications Project Engineer. In this role, you will play a vital role in implementing new communications technologies in an innovative future space architecture by leading a team of technical subject matter experts defining enterprise interoperability standards for space-space and space-ground communications and developing and executing a communications technology development strategy. This position is located in Chantilly, VA and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Job Duties include

• Produce and execute project plans.
• Lead weekly team status update meetings with customers.
• Facilitate technical interchange meetings between customer subject matter experts and developers; capture, assign, and track to completion action items; capture and publish meeting notes.
• Curate and maintain project information using enterprise collaboration and project management tools.
• Curate and adjudicate comments to draft interoperability standards documents.
• Ensure configuration management and version control of draft interoperability standards documents.
• Prepare incremental drafts of standards documents for customer review.
• Coordinate efforts of representatives from multiple customer offices to accomplish project objectives.
• Coordinate engagements with potential external users of customer’s data transport network.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, or Systems Engineering.
• 14+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience with communications system development and test.
• Experience with space system electronics technology development.
• Experience managing engineering development projects.
• Proficient with modern technical project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Confluence, JIRA).
• Ability to work collaboratively with personnel from multiple functions and at all levels of the customer organization to deliver results; strong networking, interpersonal, customer service skills, team building and problem-solving skills with an ability to be effective in a government/contractor team environment.
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to plan, track and maintain due dates for multiple taskers and products central to project execution.
• Experience in DoD IC acquisition and program management processes.