Computer Engineer

Job ID: 2617940
Location: San Diego, CA, US
Date Posted: 2026-10-14
Category: Software
Subcategory: SW Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a highly experienced Computer Engineer to provide senior-level technical leadership for the design, acquisition, integration, and deployment of hardware and computing solutions supporting mission-critical operations. This role will lead efforts to develop and field enterprise and edge computing infrastructure, including innovative solutions that are not currently available within existing environments. The candidate will work closely with integration teams, emerging technology platforms, engineering organizations, and operational stakeholders to develop mission-ready solutions that address physical and deployment constraints through small-form-factor computing, mobile servers, workstations, and related hardware technologies. The role requires strong computer engineering expertise, technical leadership, hardware lifecycle management, and the ability to deliver reliable computing solutions across geographically distributed environments.
THIS IS AN ONSITE ROLE IN SAN DIEGO, CA. WITH UP TO 10% OF CONOCONUS TRAVEL INVOLVED.
JOB DUTIES:

• Lead the design, evaluation, acquisition, integration, and deployment of computing hardware and supporting software solutions for enterprise, edge, and mission-focused environments.
• Lead and coordinate teams of engineers responsible for acquiring, building, configuring, integrating, testing, installing, and sustaining hardware and software solutions at government locations.
• Develop innovative computing solutions for emerging operational requirements by evaluating small-form-factor computers, mobile servers, workstations, edge computing platforms, and other technologies to address physical and deployment constraints.
• Support the design and redesign of IT and hardware architectures, including new system implementations, field changes, technology refreshes, upgrades, hardware replacements, and integration with existing infrastructure.
• Manage engineering schedules, technical tasks, dependencies, hardware acquisition activities, and integration milestones to ensure systems are delivered in accordance with customer and operational requirements.
• Manage equipment inventories by maintaining hardware accountability, configuration information, lifecycle status, deployment information, and planning inputs for replacement or modernization.
• Develop and maintain detailed engineering documentation, including hardware designs, system configurations, bills of material, installation procedures, maintenance procedures, technical specifications, and configuration records.
• Provide senior-level technical guidance to engineers, integration teams, program stakeholders, and operational personnel while troubleshooting complex hardware, software, infrastructure, and system integration challenges.
• Plan and execute system installations, upgrades, technology refreshes, and new capability implementations while ensuring solutions meet applicable technical, cybersecurity, interoperability, and industry requirements.

Qualifications
REQUIREMENTS:

• 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.
• Must have an Active Secret Clearance to start
• Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance after start
• Extensive experience in computer engineering, hardware engineering, systems integration, infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines supporting complex computing environments.
• Experience designing, acquiring, building, integrating, testing, installing, and sustaining computer hardware and supporting software solutions.
• Experience leading engineers or multidisciplinary technical teams responsible for hardware acquisition, system integration, installation, deployment, or sustainment activities.
• Strong understanding of computing hardware architectures, servers, workstations, storage, networking components, peripherals, and supporting infrastructure.
• Experience evaluating technical requirements and developing hardware solutions based on performance, interoperability, environmental, deployment, and operational constraints.
• Experience supporting system design and redesign activities, hardware upgrades, technology refreshes, field changes, configuration management, and lifecycle planning.
• Experience managing engineering schedules, technical tasks, dependencies, equipment requirements, and customer delivery milestones.
• Experience developing and maintaining detailed technical documentation for hardware designs, configurations, installation, maintenance, and sustainment activities.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to collaborate on complex technical challenges across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to provide technical direction and communicate engineering recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, and status to technical, program, and operational stakeholders.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience supporting Navy, Department of War, government, or other mission-critical operational environments.
• Operational experience supporting active-duty military customers and fielded capabilities at government or military installations.
• Experience supporting complex distributed computing environments, edge infrastructure, or other mission-focused technology platforms.
• Experience designing computing solutions around physical constraints, including small-form-factor computers, mobile servers, ruggedized workstations, edge computing systems, and deployable infrastructure.
• Experience integrating computing hardware with emerging technology platforms, sensors, networks, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or other mission-focused platforms.
• Experience with enterprise and edge server technologies, embedded computing, GPUs, high-performance computing hardware, virtualization, containerized workloads, or other mission-focused compute architectures.
• Experience performing hardware trade studies, component evaluations, technical assessments, compatibility analysis, or make/buy recommendations for emerging computing requirements.
• Experience managing technical equipment inventories, hardware configurations, asset lifecycle information, technology refresh planning, and End-of-Life considerations.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity, system hardening, secure configuration, vulnerability remediation, and accreditation considerations associated with deploying computing hardware in government environments.
• Experience supporting system installations, deployment activities, operational testing, technology demonstrations, or geographically distributed technical deployments.

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 .