Space Requirements Engineer

Job ID: 2611162

Location: Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-04-08

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 an experienced and driven Space Requirements Engineer to lead efforts in defining and managing mission threads and aligning operational requirements with technical solutions. This role focuses on defining mission-critical use cases, managing traceability across requirements, and supporting high-impact study planning and reporting efforts.

As a technical leader, you will collaborate across teams to ensure operational and system-level integration, driving alignment between architecture, requirements, verification, and mission effectiveness. You will leverage your expertise to shape mission-driven project strategies and optimize system performance for diverse stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Mission Threads and Operational Alignment

• Lead Development of Mission Threads: Define and refine mission-level workflows and operational scenarios, ensuring end-user needs and system capabilities align seamlessly.
• Mission Analysis: Serve as the primary point of contact for mission analysis activities, working with stakeholders to define operational needs, objectives, and constraints.
• Operational Views and Models: Develop detailed operational and functional views (e.g., OV-1s, OV-5s) and use Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) techniques to articulate mission architectures and system-of-systems designs.
• Ensure End-to-End Traceability: Ensure mission threads are incorporated into system designs, and their requirements flow seamlessly across development and operational phases.
• Capability Gap Analysis: Analyze mission workflows, identifying capability gaps and providing recommendations for technical solutions, operational changes, or system enhancements.
  
  

Requirements Management And Traceability

• High-Level Traceability Oversight: Integrate mission-driven requirements into system and subsystem-level requirements, ensuring traceability across architecture, design, and testing phases.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Lead discussions with multidisciplinary engineering teams and key stakeholders to align operational needs with technical requirements.
• Mission Success Criteria: Define and validate measurable objectives, including Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) and Measures of Performance (MOPs), for mission threads at system and subsystem levels.
• Documentation Leadership: Oversee the development and maintenance of requirements traceability matrices (RTMs), ensuring all traceability activities align with project goals and industry standards.
  
  

Study Planning and Reporting

• Strategic Study Planning: Define the scope, objectives, and execution plans for mission studies, including quantitative and qualitative analysis of operational performance.
• Leadership in Reporting: Provide subject matter expertise in creating detailed, structured, and comprehensive study reports and technical briefings for stakeholders and leadership.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyze study results, identify areas for improvement, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance system performance and mission success.
• Support Modeling and Simulation Efforts: Oversee simulations and scenario-based modeling to validate mission thread performance and ensure alignment with operational goals.
  
  

Leadership and Collaboration

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as a technical leader, guiding teams across engineering disciplines to ensure alignment between mission requirements and system functionality.
• Best Practices Expert: Drive the adoption of mission thread-centric approaches, leveraging frameworks such as DoDAF, SysML, or UAF to improve team efficiency and outcomes.
• Advancing Innovation: Foster innovation by recommending advanced methodologies, tools, and frameworks for requirements management, mission thread analysis, and study planning.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Skills and Education

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, Operations Research, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• A minimum of 9 years of professional experience in systems engineering with a concentration on mission threads and requirements management.
• Expertise in DoDAF, SysML, UAF, MBSE, and other architecture and modeling frameworks/tools (e.g., Cameo, Enterprise Architect, IBM DOORS, or similar).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in mission analysis, operational scenarios, and system-of-systems integration.
• Proven ability to plan and lead studies, prepare technical reports, and effectively present findings to senior management and external customers.
• Comprehensive knowledge of requirements traceability, configuration management, and engineering processes.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry-recognized certifications such as INCOSE CSEP/ESEP, PMP, ITIL, or equivalent.
• Experience with incorporating simulation or modeling results into mission and system requirements.
• Background in defense, aerospace, or related mission domains with exposure to multi-systems integration projects.
• Experience defining or analyzing key performance metrics such as MOEs and MOPs.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevSecOps methods for system development.
  
  

Key Competencies:

• Exceptional leadership capability and ability to coordinate efforts across multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills for working with diverse groups and stakeholders.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, providing strategic-level decisions and leadership in ambiguous and complex technical scenarios.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and professional development.
  
  

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 .