Systems Engineer Senior

Job ID: 2613274

Location: Cleveland, OH, US

Date Posted: 2026-06-03

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is looking for an experienced Systems Engineer to support the Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom Nuclear Power Module (NPM) Verification and Validation (V&V) efforts. SR-1 will demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion and provide a path to higher powered and longer duration Mars missions.

Supporting the SR-1 NPM Lead Systems Engineer, the selected candidate will be the technical lead for NPM V&V Planning and Execution.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the system is verified and validated using the defined mission success criteria
• Defining verification methods for all requirements
• Defining and maintaining the Verification Matrix to ensure industry partner’s V&V plans align with system-level V&V
• Ensuring the NPM V&V Plan is in-line with the SR-1 Vehicle V&V Plan
• Coordinating subsystem and system level test planning for requirement closure criteria
• Validation of mission requirements and concept of operations
• Collaborating with the Integration & Test and External Interfaces technical leads
• Being the interface to the with the mission level V&V planning effort

Location:

• Work will be performed onsite at NASA GRC in Cleveland, Ohio, 5-days a week.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Experience with verification and validation planning and execution

• Demonstrated experience in systems engineering on complex hardware

• Demonstrated experience collaborating across cross-functional teams

• Excellent communication skills

• Highly motivated and able to work independently

• Team player dedicated to the mission

Desired Skills:

• Experience with spaceflight hardware projects
• Experience working with NASA, Department of Energy, or defense/naval systems engineering processes and procedures
• INCOSE CSEP

Education/Experience:

Completed at least a bachelor of science degree in a STEM-related major from an accredited program with the following education and experience:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more of relevant experience;
• Masters and seven (7) years or more of relevant experience;
• PhD or JD and four (4) years or more of relevant experience.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.