Job ID: 2508628
Location: ALEXANDRIA, VA, US
Date Posted: 2025-08-20
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: Yes
Description
SAIC is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer with experience in defense weapon systems and acquisition policy to join our energized team in support of an exciting variety of programs.
SAIC supports the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) customers and enterprise as they lead, cultivate, and develop innovative solutions to address common concerns of reliable and maintainable weapon systems (https://ac.cto.mil/sea/). SAIC also provides technical expertise to improve the state-of-practice to pursue cross-cutting initiatives across the acquisition community and within the systems engineering enterprise.
As a member of the team, you will assist OUSD(R&E) advance the practice of Systems Engineering (SE) focused on modernized engineering practices such as Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), AGILE Systems Development, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). You will regularly work with the SE community of practice and DoD senior executives. You will review and evaluate OUSD(R&E) modernization priorities and related technologies, systems, legislation, policies, procedures, practices, guidance, standards, handbooks, tools, DoD workforce development resources and training, in coordination with OUSD(R&E) organizations, DoD Components, other federal agencies, and academic and industry partners.
This position is hybrid remote with on-site work located in Alexandria, VA. The candidate must reside in the National Capital Region (NCR).

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Active Secret clearance
• US citizenship
• Bachelor’s degree and five (5) or more years experience; Masters and three (3) or more years experience. Degree in a science, technical, engineering, or math (STEM) discipline that is relevant to engineering of defense systems.
• Experience in engineering, integration, and interface management of complex systems such as Systems of Systems (SoS) and Families of Systems (FoS).
• Demonstrated experience in planning, briefing and coordinating senior-level technical reviews, panels, and working group meetings among industry, academia, and Government stakeholders.
• Experience supporting DoD or other US Federal Government agencies and processes.
• Demonstrated experience with conveying complex ideas and theories to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience working independently and with a team to lead and execute tasks in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment.
• Self motivated with strong interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated experience communicating with senior leaders (Government Service (GS-15) and Senior Executive Service (SES) in the SE discipline.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Additional experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices and the digital transformation of defense systems.
• Demonstrated experience with technical management processes for engineering defense systems.
• Demonstrated experience working with system architecture, interfaces, standards, and specifications.
• Masters’ degree desired.
• Minimum of ten (10) years’ engineering experience on US government programs.

• Serve as government Director’s lead to prepare, coordinate, collaborate, and participate in MOSA initiatives.
• Support instantiation of MOSA and MBSE into DoD Engineering processes and technical reviews.
• Conduct engineering assessments and analysis of alternatives (AoA) to support the recommendation of modular approaches, tools, and technologies for development of new analytics, including data-and-event-driven analytics supporting MOSA.
• Collaborate with various engineering teams to support requirements definition, evaluation, integration, and deployment of newly developed capabilities.
• Advise and support the customer’s leadership on the formulation and coordination of DoD MOSA policies, standards, specifications, and activities to implement the DoD’s chartered responsibilities for enabling modular and open architectures in defense systems.
• Provide subject matter expertise in the development and implementation of the MOSA-related workforce training courses.
• Support annual SE and MOSA conferences preparing workshops, briefings, and supporting the OUSD(R&E) participation.
• Prepare presentations and other materials to support project functions.
• Draft correspondence, reports, white papers, minutes, spreadsheets, communications products, briefs, and other documentation.
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