1 day ago
Bernalillo, NM, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy software applications interfacing with ground mission systems to capture real-time satellite data.
- Architect, implement, and optimize relational, NoSQL, and time-series database solutions for satellite data streams.
- Build pipelines to parse, transform, and load satellite telemetry, tracking, command, and payload data.
- Troubleshoot integration bottlenecks between ground software applications and backend database infrastructure.
- Collaborate with ground engineers, mission operators, and software teams to meet operational data architecture requirements.
- Support full-lifecycle integration engineering, including integration code and database schema development.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer or Data Sciences or a related field and five or more years of experience, or a master’s degree and seven or more years of relevant experience.
- Four additional years of experience may substitute for the required degree.
- At least three years of combined database engineering and software development experience.
- Active Top Secret or DoE Q clearance with SCI eligibility, eligibility for SCI indoctrination within the first three months, and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.
- Experience with software development for satellite ground systems, ground stations, or mission control centers.
- Expert knowledge of database design, deployment, and optimization, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or InfluxDB or similar systems.
- Programming proficiency in Python, C++, Java, or Go.
- Understanding of satellite data structures, telemetry parsing, and modeling space-domain data in database environments.
- Ability to operate as a full-lifecycle engineer supporting integration code and database schema development.
- Preferred experience with AWS/GovCloud or Azure Government, DoD/DoW or Space Force data standards and cybersecurity compliance, and Docker or Kubernetes in tactical or air-gapped environments.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About SAIC
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) is a government technology integrator delivering systems engineering, enterprise IT, secure cloud, cybersecurity, C5ISR, and data analytics for U.S. defense, space, intelligence, and civilian agencies. It builds and sustains mission IT and digital engineering solutions under multi-year federal contracts and task orders. Founded in 1969, SAIC is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and is a public company traded on the NYSE under the ticker SAIC.