Modeling and Simulation Engineer

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

SAIC is seeking a Modeling and Simulation Engineer 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.

As the Modeling and Simulation Engineer you will support the Chief Architect's Modeling and Simulation team. You will also provide oversight and stewardship of M&S technical standards to enable seamless integration of architectures.

Job to duties to include:

Provide strategic assessment, resource gap, and policies support including:

Assist 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.

Support executing oversight and stewardship of M&S technical standards to enable seamless integration of architectures

Assist 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.

Assist and support efforts in the development, integration, propagation, and enforcement of M&S policies, guidance, rules, and standards.

Assist 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. Nominates, review, and provide recommendations on standards needing to be included in the standards.

Support government lead with executing standards related tasks such as development/ curation of M&S standards profile, updates to M&S standards policies

Develop and host M&S training events and demonstrations to highlight best practices and use cases for when and how to apply standards.

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor's and nine (9), Master's and seven (7), or relevant years of experience in lieu of degree

Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph

8+ years of experience working in the area of modeling and simulation.

Demonstrated ability to develop system behavior, structure, data, and requirements models employing leading modeling tools/applications in a team environment.

Demonstrated experience in resolving technical standards and interoperability issues.

Experience with operations in either the air, space, or cyber domain.

Demonstrated ability to develop strategies to accomplish organizational initiatives.

Experience with coordination processes, policy development and strategic communications at a senior level.

Knowledge 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.

Knowledge in adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to the measurement and improvement of program effectiveness or organizational productivity.

Experience in preparing and presenting high level briefings, and technical reports.