Digital Systems Engineer

Job ID: 2614812

Location: Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-07-22

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Digital Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking a Digital Systems Engineer to fill a critical position on a SAIC's Prime Program in Chantilly, VA. SAIC supports a large SETA program supporting the NRO's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.

As a Digital Systems Engineer you will help identify and plan new capabilities to support mission operations. The Digital Systems Engineer should have expertise across the digital engineering spectrum including modeling, strategic planning, system integration and "system-of-systems" user-centric design. This role will be at the forefront in shaping the SPO's approach and roadmap for Digital Engineering and MBSE. The Digital Systems Engineer will serve as a trusted advisor for senior government clients through the end-to-end process of analyzing, devising, and implementing SPO's DE/MBSE approach.

Job duties to include:

• Provides technical leadership in applying Digital Engineering concepts, processes, and tools to help the government plan and define capabilities needed to better support mission operations (e.g., automation, situational awareness, etc.) both within the SPO's Program Office, as well as in conjunction with the Chief Architect's office to ensure that not only is the SPO aligned with GED's vision, but successfully communicating across government and SETA teams to influence said policy to be supportive of the SPO's needs.
• Analyzes user needs, concept of operations, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements. This includes working with individual SPO program COTRs to devise an appropriate and feasible implementation strategy for them-ranging from legacy systems to future visions.
• Identifies and communicates system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies.
• Provides technical support to government points of contact.
• Initiates a successful foundation for MBSE efforts and initiatives through effectively communication and interfacing with engineers from various contractors and government organizations.
• Develops assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, conveying system engineering concepts and decision logic concisely and accurately.
• Applies one or more common EA frameworks, particularly DoDAF and UAF, as well as common MBSE architecture tools, in developing and communicating the EA.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar STEM field and 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.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly.
• Experience with Digital Engineering and tools.
• Experience with systems development methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevSecOps).
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development.
• Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Self-starter proactively addresses customer requirements with limited supervision; excels at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics.
• Ability to provide technical and programmatic recommendations on the development, integration, and use of digital engineering/model-based engineering and model-based systems engineering concepts and structures.
• Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project, Confluence, Jira.
• Familiarity with MBSE Tools, UAF, and SysML (proficiency strongly desired).

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. 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 .