Job ID: 2612429
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-05-11
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 Join a winning team! SAIC is currently hiring for a customer within the Intelligence Community (IC) in Chantilly, VA. This customer is responsible for designing, building, and operating national security-related systems based in space, in the air, and on the ground. SAIC is a strong company providing opportunities for energetic individuals with a strong desire to expand their knowledge while increasing their responsibilities. SAIC has an opening for a SME Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) services to an IC customer. The customer organization we support provides the enterprise architecting, analysis, and systems engineering solutions that determine the current and future national space systems.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Working across multiple Directorates and Offices to identify and define future space capability needs
Frequent interaction with government, SETA, FFRDC, external stakeholders
Identifying and defining future space capability needs
Identifying key architecture and system level trades
Developing strategies in support of IC and Department of Defense (DoD) architecture
Assessing the performance of current and future architecture concepts
Providing technical and programmatic guidance to the architecture and system level requirements process
Developing architecture models to capture the holistic view of the enterprise
Qualifications Typical Education and Experience:
Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience
Bachelor's degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with at least 9 years of relevant
experience
Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
Strong technical fundamentals in IC space collectors, command and control, mission control, and mission processing
Experience with use of architecting to support senior level enterprise decision making
Proven experience/familiarity with architecture tools
Proven experience with the use of architecting across IC
Architecture domain understanding from a holistic enterprise perspective
Ability to recommend space enterprise architecture tradeoffs, impacts, and advancement
Experience in development and use of modeling for architecture solutions
Understanding of core systems engineering and analysis disciplines and processes
Experience with lifecycle readiness from System Requirements Review through system decommissioning
Experience with digital engineering
Experience in an Acquisition Office and the processes required to support that office
Experience in Cameo, Rhapsody, and SysML applications
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and energetic environment
Strong oral and written communication skills
Customer focused and capable of representing the customer in community forums
Desired:
Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline
Experience with IC customer's Engineering Review Board process
Experience in Cameo, Rhapsody, and SysML applications
Prior US military and/or IC customer experience
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- Dice Id: 10111346
- Position Id: 2612429
- Posted 15 hours ago
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