User Outreach Engineer

Job ID: 2618057
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-10-16
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 User Outreach Engineer to support a SAIC Prime NRO program focused on advancing the adoption of next-generation space and intelligence capabilities at the NRO in Chantilly, VA.
Note: Qualified candidates must have a current and active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph to be considered for this role.
In this highly visible role, as the User Outreach Engineer, you will serve as the bridge between mission users, operational commands, technical organizations, and Government leadership, helping ensure emerging capabilities are understood, adopted, and aligned with real-world mission needs.
This is an ideal opportunity for professionals with experience supporting the NRO, Combatant Commands, operational users, or Intelligence Community mission partners who enjoy combining technical knowledge, customer engagement, and strategic communication.
Overview of role responsibilities:

• Engage mission users across the NRO, Intelligence Community, and DoD to gather operational needs and inform future capability development.
• Develop and deliver training, briefings, and educational materials focused on emerging space and intelligence capabilities.
• Partner with operational commands, mission stakeholders, and technology organizations to support experimentation, use case development, and capability assessments.
• Drive user readiness activities supporting tasking, data discovery, exploitation, and mission integration efforts.
• Represent user perspectives to engineering and program teams to help shape future requirements and priorities.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, responses, and decision support materials for Government leadership.
• Coordinate across multiple organizations to ensure outreach efforts, dependencies, and mission objectives remain aligned.
• Travel domestically and internationally to engage mission partners and support operational integration activities.

Qualifications
Required Experience and Education

• 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 may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Experience supporting NRO satellite systems, mission operations, or related intelligence capabilities.
• Experience engaging with operational users, customers, or mission stakeholders.
• Strong briefing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Working knowledge of the NRO mission, organizational structure, acquisition processes, and satellite systems.
• Ability to build relationships across Government, military, contractor, and Intelligence Community organizations.
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence(AI)/ Super Intelligence(SI) a PLUS!
• Willingness to travel up to 10-20% CONUS and OCONUS

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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 .