**Description** SAIC is seeking a **Systems Engineer/Architect** with **Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)** experience in Defense and National Security Space systems to join our Horizon 2 program, supporting the Space Security Defense Program in **Colorado Springs, Colorado** . The **Horizon Program** is supporting Government organizations with subject matter experts that have a background with space systems and their architectures. Horizon team members provide systems engineering and architecting expertise in support of various capabilities that protect and defend the Nation's most valuable space assets. Our team is at the forefront of the advising and assisting the Government with their architecture and full lifecycle systems engineering processes that enable key systems to meet warfighter needs. In this position, you will exercise both thought leadership and practical engineering application by leveraging your systems engineering and architecting experience and applying MBSE techniques to develop analysis and solution offerings to best support our customers. You will use your knowledge of systems engineering processes, methods, tools, SysML and program roles to help develop architectural roadmaps. You will learn, apply, and continuously improve our current architectures to capture stakeholder inputs and formal requirements, as well as facilitate discussion and understanding of where the architecture needs to evolve to. **Among many other daily activities, you will experience:** + Regular interface with US Space Force Commands, mission partner agencies and higher headquarters to provide strong architectural solutions, generate and document requirements, structures, behaviors, and parametric analysis, etc. + Participation in the creation and management of changes to enterprise and systems models, including impact assessments based on environment changes. + Support trade, sensitivity, optimization studies, performance assessments, and Operations Analysis work such as mission analysis and contributions to CONOPS development. + Preparation and presentation of concepts, architectures, designs, and performance assessments. **Qualifications** **This is you:** + Bachelor's degree in a technical field of study with at least 9 years of experience with (4 years of additional experience in lieu in degree): + Systems engineering and architecting (including Department of Defense modeling schemes and documentation types). + Model-Based Systems Engineering process concepts and modeling tools (e.g., Rhapsody and Cameo/Magic Draw/SparxEA). + Analysis and simulation tools (e.g., MATLAB, AGI/STK, Python, etc.). + Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM) toolset. + Must have an in-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable). + Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination. **Desired:** + Advanced degree in engineering, science or related technical field. + Professional certifications such as INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) Certification and/or OMG Certified System Modeling Professional (OSCMP) Certification. + Knowledge of DODI 5000.02 and JCIDS processes. + Experience working with or for the Intelligence Community. + Experience within the National Security Space and, or the Space Control mission area. 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 accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline. Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2410305 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability