MBSE SME

About the role

SAIC is seeking an MBSE SME supporting SAIC’s large SETA program, which supports the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED).

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise MBSE strategy and execution.
• Apply systems engineering, systems modeling, product-lifecycle management, and digital-thread methodologies to construct, curate, and steward end-to-end digital content across GED programs.
• Capture and model customer needs.
• Translate mission needs into model-based requirements, architectures, and CONOPS for future NRO ground and space systems.
• Develop authoritative system models.
• Build and maintain SysML/UAF models representing architecture, interfaces, operational workflows, and requirements traceability.
• Drive MBSE thought leadership.
• Evolve repeatable, disciplined systems-engineering approaches grounded in MBSE principles, ensuring alignment with DoD digital-engineering guidance.
• Support acquisition engineering.
• Develop model-based requirements and artifacts for SOWs, RFPs, and technical evaluations; support proposal assessments using model-centric criteria.
• Shape future space-capability architectures.
• Work across multiple NRO and partner organizations to identify, define, and model future mission needs and enabling capabilities.
• Facilitate cross-enterprise technical integration.
• Coordinate discussions with SMEs, government stakeholders, SETA teams, FFRDC partners, and development contractors to mature system concepts and resolve technical issues.
• Manage technical and acquisition dependencies.
• Identify, track, and communicate interdependencies across programs, architectures, and contractor deliverables.
• Champion digital-engineering transformation.
• Mentor teams, guide tool adoption, and help GED accelerate its shift toward model-driven engineering, automated workflows, and resilient ground-system modernization.

Requirements

• Required Education and Experience: Bachelors and eighteen (18) years or more experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; PhD or JD and fifteen years or more experience.
• Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Active Top Secret Clearance with Polygraph.
• 10+ years of experience with system engineering processes and demonstrable expertise developing ground architectures for mission-critical systems.
• In-depth experience with Digital Engineering principles, including model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches and tools.
• Practical understanding of Agile practices within system acquisition environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in government acquisition strategies, documentation development, and full lifecycle program management.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to brief government stakeholders at all levels.

Qualifications

• Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly
• Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000