Systems Engineer

Job ID: 2613925

Location: Chantilly, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-08-19

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

The Systems Engineer (SE) will support a customer organization and serve as a trusted agent across several SE disciplines. You will facilitate collaboration across organizations necessary to ensure the equities Directorate Offices are considered in the development of work products, as well as supporting other desired organizational outcomes. You will act as a contractor point of contact for office tasks and proactively ensure responses meet deadlines. You will be expected to develop executive-level communications and correspondence with a high degree of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and timeliness of written information.

The successful candidate will

Support Directorate leadership with general SE support (requirements management, schedule management, risk management, readiness);
Provide support to Directorate level threads/focus areas to include development of processes, frameworks and templates to facilitate integration of thread/focus area deliverables
Track and status action items, support program-based action item resolution, and provide updates on open actions to group leadership;
Solicit and consolidate inputs from multiple sources (Government, FFRDC, SETA, developer, etc.) and produce high-quality action item responses, reports, briefings and/or plans in accordance with the customer formats and guidelines for internal and external consumption upon government approval;
Facilitate preparation and coordination of customer leadership's briefings to governance boards/forums;
Produce high-quality presentation materials, to include multimedia products and executive-level communications and correspondence with a high degree of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and timeliness of written information;
Provide insights and advice to customer organization across a broad range of business, mission, and technical issues, taskings, and advisories;
Also, the candidate may be requested to surge and flex in support of tasks and projects across the broader program scope according to their specific, personal expertise and capabilities.

Qualifications

Position Requirements

Bachelors with 3+ years of demonstrated performance related to the tasks above
Active TS/SCI clearance, with Poly
3 years of experience in a SETA environment
Experience with the Intel Community
Ability to excel as team enabler, with high regard for collaboration, open communication, transparency, and flexibility
Ability to relate professionally with senior Government customers and colleagues
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate organizational positions on various topics
Requirements verification and validation
Systems integration with subsystem analysis and traceability for system-level selloff

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. 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 .