What are the responsibilities and job description for the Modeling and Simulation Engineer position at SAIC?
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
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.
- 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.