Space Protection AI Mission Engineer

Job ID: 2614720

Location

Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted

2026-07-20

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 Space Protection Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Mission Engineer to join the Air Force, Space and Intelligence Business Group providing systems engineering and technical advisory services to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer. The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground systems, architectures, and hardware/software solutions.

The Space Protection AI/ML Mission Engineer will serve as the subject matter expert (SME) and System Program Office (SPO) representative coordinating with the development contractor and stakeholders (including end user operators) for deployment of new protection capabilities into space operations. The Space Protection AI/ML Mission Engineer leads development of AI/ML strategies and models and leverages them to identify integration opportunities for novel AI/ML solutions to enable accelerating, streamlining, and automating processes and activities, while simultaneously assisting the third-party contractor to identify AI/ML solutions that infuse real-time autonomy, intelligent data filtering, and big data analysis capabilities into their development strategies and designs.

The Space Protection AI/ML Mission Engineer responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Serves as the SPO’s technical expert leading AI/ML adoption to improve acquisition management, guide third-party contractor’s system development, and enable delivery of next-generation Space Indication and Warning (I&W) capabilities to protect the customer’s high value space a