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Principal Test Engineer

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United StatesHybridFull TimePrincipal$120,001–$160,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

SAIC is seeking a Principal Test Engineer in Colorado Springs, CO, to support the US Space Force. This role involves operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical for strategic missile surveillance and defense. The engineer will develop and execute system test solutions, ensuring test plans and methodologies are accurate and comprehensive. Key responsibilities include participating in test plan execution, documenting test requirements, supporting system integration plans, and developing innovative test automation solutions within DevSecOps environments. The position requires a Bachelor's degree and 9+ years of relevant experience, with an active Secret Clearance.

Job ID: 2610869

Location: Colorado Springs, CO, US

Date Posted: 2026-04-01

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Test Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA\_HYBRID

Description

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Principal Test Engineer to support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile surveillance, warning, defense, and space surveillance missions in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In support of the government customer, the SAIC Program Manager, and the Chief Engineer, the Principal Test Engineer is responsible for development and execution of system test solutions in accordance with engineering documentation to ensure test plans and methodologies meet system needs, are accurate, comprehensive, consistent, and complete.

Job Duties:

  • Participate, prepare, and execute comprehensive subsystem and enterprise-level test plans and procedures, and support system/element level test planning and test readiness reviews.
  • Document test requirements and methodologies in the requirements management system.
  • Support the development of system integration plans, procedures and scenarios used in the conduct of software/hardware system integration testing.
  • Development of innovative Test Automation solutions and support the software development teams focused on DevSecOps solutions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors and nine plus (9+) years’ of relevant experience.
  • Active Secret Clearance.
  • Familiarity or experience with Agile software development methodologies, i.e., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, to include use of Jira and Confluence.
  • Experience in using a requirements management tool, such as DOORS.
  • Familiarity or experience with continuous integration and deployment environments and tools such as Bamboo.
  • Experience with version control tools such as Bitbucket.
  • Experience with \*ix operating systems.

Desired:

  • Experience sustaining UEWR and/or PARCS ground based radar systems.
  • Experience in writing scripts using scripting languages such as Korn Shell, Bourne Shell, Python, Perl, bash, tcl, etc.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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