Systems Engineer SME

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Systems Engineer SME

Job ID: 2612429

Location: Chantilly, VA, United States

Date Posted: May 11, 2026

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: On-Site

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Job Description

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

Overview

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

SAIC is a premier Fortune 500 mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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