{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8cf842f9fcbc4decc85d3328","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8cf842f9fcbc4decc85d3328","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8cf842f9fcbc4decc85d3328","title":"Models Based Systems Engineer","description":"Job ID: 2615662\n\nLocation: Chantilly, VA, US\n\nDate Posted: 2026-08-24\n\nCategory: Engineering and Sciences\n\nSubcategory: Digital Engineer\n\nSchedule: Full-Time\n\nShift: Day Job\n\nTravel: No\n\nMinimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly\n\nClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly\n\nPotential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE\n\nDescription\n\nSAIC is seeking a Modeling and Simulation Engineer y with a strong background in ground architecture and government acquisitions to fill a critical position on SAIC’s Prime Program, Landmark AOS located in Chantilly, VA. Landmark AOS is a large SETA program that supports the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), which is responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle. This will be a position supporting our customer’s Ground Enterprise Directorate in the Chief Architect office.\n\nAs the Modeling and Simulation Engineer you will support the Chief Architect's Systems and Digital Engineering Teams across the Chief Architect’s Office. You will also provide oversight and stewardship of DE technical standards to enable seamless integration of architecture.\n\nJob duties to include:\n\nProvide strategic assessment, resource gap analysis, and policies support including:\nAssist the coordination with organizations across the directorate to provide cost, schedule, standards, accreditation, technical, and performance assessments supporting the M&S strategy and future evolution and investment. Develop briefings and background papers to identify potential impacts and proposed courses of action.\nSupport executing oversight and stewardship of DE technical standards to enable seamless integration of architectures\nAssist and support efforts to identify and prioritize Directorate 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.\nAssist and support efforts in the development, integration, propagation, and enforcement of DE policies, guidance, rules, and standards.\nAssist 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.\nSupport government lead with executing tasks such as development/ curation of DE standards profile, updates to DE standards policies\nDevelop and host DE training events and demonstrations to highlight best practices and use cases for when and how to apply standards\nCollaboration and Agile Practices:\nWork closely with System Program Office Thread Leads and program managers to ensure alignment and efficiency in acquisition strategy execution.\nParticipate in Agile development teams and provide technical direction for the implementation of engineering tools, processes, and digital solutions.\nProvide feedback on GED policies related to Agile, Digital Engineering, and DevSecOps based on observations of implementation challenges to drive improvements in suitability of governance and increase consistency of adoption across GED.\n\nQualifications\n\nRequired Education and Experience:\n\nBachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.\nActive Top Secret /SCI with CI Poly\n5+ years of experience working in the area of modeling and simulation\nDemonstrated ability to develop system behavior, structure, data, and requirements models employing leading modeling tools/applications in a team environment\nExperience in systems engineering or digital engineering discipline\nExperience working with DoDAF and/or other MBSE architecture guidelines\nDemonstrated experience in resolving technical standards and interoperability issues\nExperience with operations in either the air, space, or cyber domain.\nDemonstrated ability to develop strategies to accomplish organizational initiatives.\nExperience with coordination processes, policy development and strategic communications at a senior level.\nKnowledge 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.\nKnowledge in adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to the measurement and improvement of program effectiveness or organizational productivity.\nExperience in preparing and presenting high level briefings, and technical reports.\n\nTarget salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.","company":"SAI","rawCompany":"sai","city":"Gaithersburg","state":"MD","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-09T09:19:20.746Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2011.00","title":"Aerospace Engineers","slug":"aerospace-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541330","title":"Engineering Services","slug":"engineering-services"},{"code":"541690","title":"Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services","slug":"other-scientific-and-technical-consulting-services"},{"code":"541715","title":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)","slug":"research-and-development-in-the-physical-engineering-and-life-sciences-except-nanotechnology-and-biotechnology"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Models Based Systems Engineer","description":"Job ID: 2615662\n\nLocation: Chantilly, VA, US\n\nDate Posted: 2026-08-24\n\nCategory: Engineering and Sciences\n\nSubcategory: Digital Engineer\n\nSchedule: Full-Time\n\nShift: Day Job\n\nTravel: No\n\nMinimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly\n\nClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly\n\nPotential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE\n\nDescription\n\nSAIC is seeking a Modeling and Simulation Engineer y with a strong background in ground architecture and government acquisitions to fill a critical position on SAIC’s Prime Program, Landmark AOS located in Chantilly, VA. Landmark AOS is a large SETA program that supports the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), which is responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle. This will be a position supporting our customer’s Ground Enterprise Directorate in the Chief Architect office.\n\nAs the Modeling and Simulation Engineer you will support the Chief Architect's Systems and Digital Engineering Teams across the Chief Architect’s Office. You will also provide oversight and stewardship of DE technical standards to enable seamless integration of architecture.\n\nJob duties to include:\n\nProvide strategic assessment, resource gap analysis, and policies support including:\nAssist the coordination with organizations across the directorate to provide cost, schedule, standards, accreditation, technical, and performance assessments supporting the M&S strategy and future evolution and investment. Develop briefings and background papers to identify potential impacts and proposed courses of action.\nSupport executing oversight and stewardship of DE technical standards to enable seamless integration of architectures\nAssist and support efforts to identify and prioritize Directorate 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.\nAssist and support efforts in the development, integration, propagation, and enforcement of DE policies, guidance, rules, and standards.\nAssist 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.\nSupport government lead with executing tasks such as development/ curation of DE standards profile, updates to DE standards policies\nDevelop and host DE training events and demonstrations to highlight best practices and use cases for when and how to apply standards\nCollaboration and Agile Practices:\nWork closely with System Program Office Thread Leads and program managers to ensure alignment and efficiency in acquisition strategy execution.\nParticipate in Agile development teams and provide technical direction for the implementation of engineering tools, processes, and digital solutions.\nProvide feedback on GED policies related to Agile, Digital Engineering, and DevSecOps based on observations of implementation challenges to drive improvements in suitability of governance and increase consistency of adoption across GED.\n\nQualifications\n\nRequired Education and Experience:\n\nBachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.\nActive Top Secret /SCI with CI Poly\n5+ years of experience working in the area of modeling and simulation\nDemonstrated ability to develop system behavior, structure, data, and requirements models employing leading modeling tools/applications in a team environment\nExperience in systems engineering or digital engineering discipline\nExperience working with DoDAF and/or other MBSE architecture guidelines\nDemonstrated experience in resolving technical standards and interoperability issues\nExperience with operations in either the air, space, or cyber domain.\nDemonstrated ability to develop strategies to accomplish organizational initiatives.\nExperience with coordination processes, policy development and strategic communications at a senior level.\nKnowledge 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.\nKnowledge in adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to the measurement and improvement of program effectiveness or organizational productivity.\nExperience in preparing and presenting high level briefings, and technical reports.\n\nTarget salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. 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