Ground Systems Engineer at SAIC
Aurora, CO
$80,001–$120,000from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Aurora, CO
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A systems engineering advisory role supporting a government customer at a facility in Denver, CO, focused on integrating mission systems into an operational ground system baseline. Day-to-day work involves analyzing site architecture, coordinating requirements and risks across multiple organizations, and producing technical documentation and briefings. Suited to candidates with a cleared background in systems engineering, ground/space domain familiarity, and experience navigating DoD or Intelligence Community programs.
Senior level · 5+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (9)
The role is titled 'Ground Systems Engineer' but is explicitly a SETA (Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory) position supporting a government customer — the work is advisory/analytical systems engineering rather than hands-on software development, making 15-1211 the best fit; 15-1299 is noted as a runner-up given the space/ground domain specialization.
Active TS/SCI clearance with a current polygraph is a hard gate stated in the Required Qualifications.
Degree requirement: a Bachelor's plus 5 years OR a Master's plus 1 year is stated; Bachelor's is captured as the minimum formal degree since equivalent experience is not offered as a substitute.
Total years minimum is set to 5, reflecting the Bachelor's path (the lower of the two stated experience thresholds).
Model-Based Systems Engineering, Agile/DevSecOps, and cloud technologies are listed in the Required section with 'familiar with' language; they are retained as required because they appear under the Required Qualifications heading.
JIRA and Confluence appear only under the Desired section and are marked preferred accordingly.
Space/ground domain knowledge, DoD/IC project experience, SIGINT experience, and architecture management experience all appear under the Desired section; none name a specific named technology or tool and are therefore omitted per the generic-concept rule.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Systems Engineering, Systems Development Life Cycle, System Architecture, Model-Based Systems Engineering.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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