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Job ID: 2611042
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-04-06
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 Modeling and Simulation Engineer with a strong background in ground architecture and government acquisitions to fill a critical position on a new SAIC primed program located in Chantilly, VA. The successful applicant must exhibit flexibility in task execution, provide technical expertise, deliver continuity of effort, and demonstrate value-added judgment to advise senior customer leadership on program activities. The successful candidate will produce recommendations and deliverables in a thorough, practicable, and consistent manner congruent with the organization's objectives, and facilitate customer focused IT infrastructure provisioning.
Job duties to include:
Support the Technical Director, COTRs, and Senior government decision makers by refining requirements, designs, and test capabilities to meet mission needs.
Provide strategic assessment, resource gap analysis, and policies support.
Assist the coordination with organizations across the directorate to provide cost, schedule, standards, accreditation, technical, and performance assessments supporting the strategy and future evolution and investment.
Develop briefings and background papers to identify potential impacts and proposed courses of action.
Support executing oversight and stewardship of DE technical standards to enable seamless integration of architectures.
Assist and support efforts to identify and prioritize gaps and needs. These efforts will provide information necessary to determine various aspects such as emerging/existing resource/availability/capability gaps, inefficiencies, and ineffectiveness of current efforts within Modeling and Simulation development.
Assist and support efforts in the development, integration, propagation, and enforcement of DE policies, guidance, rules, and standards.
Assist with facilitating the integration of best practices via access to M&S related knowledge and resources.
Develop processes to identify, define, assess current/ emerging standards. Nominate, review, and provide recommendations on updates to the standards.
Develop and host DE training events and demonstrations to educate customers, inform decision makers, and highlight best practice use cases for when and how to apply standards.
Qualifications
TS/SCI with Poly.
Bachelors and nine years or more experience; Masters and seven years or more experience;
8 years of experience working in the area of modeling and simulation.
Demonstrated ability to develop system behavior, structure, data, and requirements models employing leading modeling tools/applications in a team environment
Expertise in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including methodologies, strategies, tools, and frameworks (e.g., DoDAF, SysML, UAF)
Experience in systems engineering or digital engineering discipline
Demonstrated experience in resolving technical standards and interoperability issues
Experience with operations in either the air, space, or cyber domain.
Demonstrated ability to develop strategies to accomplish organizational initiatives.
Experience with coordination processes, policy development and strategic communications at a senior level.
Knowledge to plan, schedule, conduct and facilitate projects and studies to evaluate and recommend ways to improve the productivity of operations in a program or support setting.
Knowledge in adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to the measurement and improvement of program effectiveness or organizational productivity.
Experience in preparing and presenting high level briefings, and technical reports.
Preferred Credentials: OMG Certified Systems Modeling Language Professional (OCSMP) Level 2 - Model Builder Fundamental (MBF) certification or higher.
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 .
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-04-06
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 Modeling and Simulation Engineer with a strong background in ground architecture and government acquisitions to fill a critical position on a new SAIC primed program located in Chantilly, VA. The successful applicant must exhibit flexibility in task execution, provide technical expertise, deliver continuity of effort, and demonstrate value-added judgment to advise senior customer leadership on program activities. The successful candidate will produce recommendations and deliverables in a thorough, practicable, and consistent manner congruent with the organization's objectives, and facilitate customer focused IT infrastructure provisioning.
Job duties to include:
Support the Technical Director, COTRs, and Senior government decision makers by refining requirements, designs, and test capabilities to meet mission needs.
Provide strategic assessment, resource gap analysis, and policies support.
Assist the coordination with organizations across the directorate to provide cost, schedule, standards, accreditation, technical, and performance assessments supporting the strategy and future evolution and investment.
Develop briefings and background papers to identify potential impacts and proposed courses of action.
Support executing oversight and stewardship of DE technical standards to enable seamless integration of architectures.
Assist and support efforts to identify and prioritize gaps and needs. These efforts will provide information necessary to determine various aspects such as emerging/existing resource/availability/capability gaps, inefficiencies, and ineffectiveness of current efforts within Modeling and Simulation development.
Assist and support efforts in the development, integration, propagation, and enforcement of DE policies, guidance, rules, and standards.
Assist with facilitating the integration of best practices via access to M&S related knowledge and resources.
Develop processes to identify, define, assess current/ emerging standards. Nominate, review, and provide recommendations on updates to the standards.
Develop and host DE training events and demonstrations to educate customers, inform decision makers, and highlight best practice use cases for when and how to apply standards.
Qualifications
TS/SCI with Poly.
Bachelors and nine years or more experience; Masters and seven years or more experience;
8 years of experience working in the area of modeling and simulation.
Demonstrated ability to develop system behavior, structure, data, and requirements models employing leading modeling tools/applications in a team environment
Expertise in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including methodologies, strategies, tools, and frameworks (e.g., DoDAF, SysML, UAF)
Experience in systems engineering or digital engineering discipline
Demonstrated experience in resolving technical standards and interoperability issues
Experience with operations in either the air, space, or cyber domain.
Demonstrated ability to develop strategies to accomplish organizational initiatives.
Experience with coordination processes, policy development and strategic communications at a senior level.
Knowledge to plan, schedule, conduct and facilitate projects and studies to evaluate and recommend ways to improve the productivity of operations in a program or support setting.
Knowledge in adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to the measurement and improvement of program effectiveness or organizational productivity.
Experience in preparing and presenting high level briefings, and technical reports.
Preferred Credentials: OMG Certified Systems Modeling Language Professional (OCSMP) Level 2 - Model Builder Fundamental (MBF) certification or higher.
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 .