Air Object Custody Engineer

Job ID: 2610962

Location: Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-04-02

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 Air Object Custody Engineer to support SAIC's Prime Program, Landmark AOS in Chantilly, VA. Landmark AOS is a large SETA program, supporting the NRO's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.

As the Air Object Custody Engineer, you will deliver specialized engineering expertise to define, develop, and integrate multi-INT software capabilities that address urgent National Security priorities. Supporting SAIC's customer, you will help lead the integration of mission-focused tools that enhance efficiency, automation, and information sharing essential to maintaining custody of adversary aircraft. In this role, you will also advise Government managers overseeing the full end-to-end lifecycle of the customer's Ground Enterprise, contributing to solution engineering, integrated architecture development, and the operational integration of multi-INT tools and data across the broader National Security enterprise.

Responsibilities to include:

Exercise thought leadership and practical engineering application leveraging direct experience to assist the Program Management Office with solution engineering, program planning and mission integration of capabilities and data flows to meet air object custody requirements.

Decompose stakeholder and system requirements, facilitate discussion and understanding of CONOPS, schedule impacts, and trades

Engage with other systems engineers directly supporting programs to enhance cross-program integration, track solution delivery progress and assist in developing digital work products

Participate in and contribute to technical and programmatic interchanges; identify and resolve issues; and provide engineering and technical advice to the customer to achieve innovative capabilities

Provide technical expertise to support the planning of future systems and architectures

Develop briefings and documentation material, including architecture views and technical roadmaps.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.

Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Polygraph

Experience with Joint/Combined military operations, systems engineering methods and creative thought-leadership to mature and develop mission solutions to pressing intelligence needs.

Demonstrated operational knowledge and technical proficiency in air object custody topics to include: air operations across the spectrum of conflict, track quality standards, priority schemes, correlation logic and track association algorithms, identification criteria, confidence metrics, and sensor bias compensation

Broad systems engineering exposure (e.g. system architecture and design, integration of system requirements, CONOPS development, systems verification to develop solutions)

Proven ability to work effectively and collaborate in a dynamic, fast paced team

Strong organizational skills and the ability to independently execute work

Strong oral and written communications ability on significant technical matters often requiring coordination within a high tempo environment

Good working knowledge of MS Office applications

Air Battle Manager, AWACS/JSTARS/Air Operations Center Mission Crew Commander, or USAF DGS experience a Plus!

Experience using US Government systems including, but not limited to: MARS, FADE, THRESHER, ChatSurfer, Bodhi a Plus!

SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .