Digital Engineer

Job ID: 2613983

Location: Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-06-29

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 seeks a Digital Engineer to provide advanced systems engineering and digital engineering transformation services in Chantilly, VA. As a trusted advisor for the analysis and application of digital engineering for mission systems, the successful candidate will help plan, integrate, and oversee digital engineering initiatives supporting national security and intelligence needs.

Primary responsibilities:

• Serve as SAIC's technical advisor for digital engineering projects, including model-based systems engineering (MBSE), cloud integration, and digital thread development.
• Identify mission needs, operational concepts, and requirements to influence acquisition and budget efforts.
• Assess integration activities across technical, resource, and schedule dependencies and present unbiased findings, analysis, and recommendations to SAIC managers.
• Provide technical assessments of project reviews, milestones, and decision gates; identify risks, issues, opportunities, and mitigations to represent interests with stakeholders.
• Support requests for systems engineering and integration studies, process analysis and design, project management assessments.
• Provide analysis, recommendations, and take necessary actions.
• Support development or assessment of system Concept of Operations, Requirements Documents, Test Plans, Contract Statements of Work, Systems Engineering Plans, and contribute to staff work needs (e.g., action items, weekly reports, etc.), including support to acquisitions and source selections.
• Collaborate proactively with SAIC personnel and other contractors across multiple sites and organizational levels to provide unbiased analysis and recommendations on courses of action to address risks/issues or exploit opportunities.

Qualifications

Required:

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• Active TS/SCI with current polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) and nine (9) years or more relevant experience; Master's in STEM field and seven (7) year or more experience.
• STEM experience and/or degree is a contractual requirement/must have.
• Technical knowledge of digital engineering tools (MBSE, SysML, cloud platforms, Agile development).
• Experience with digital mission systems, including ground and space systems, and mission data processing.
• Familiarity with mission readiness processes, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria.
• Forward-thinking self-starter, able to address customer requirements with minimal supervision with the ability to define solutions for broad, abstract topics.
• Strong communicator (written/verbal), skilled at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and personal judgment-confident interacting with senior executives.

Desired:

• Real-time operations experience as a digital engineer, systems engineer, or ground systems operator.
• Familiarity with space operations, digital policies, and cloud technologies.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .