User Outreach Engineer
SAIC · Chantilly
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.
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