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The MITRE Corporation Mission Engineer Lead in McLean, Virginia
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Department Summary:
MITRE’s Strengthen Coalition Capabilities (N124) Department is seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to fill the position of Mission Engineer Lead in support of a Partner Nation project. The successful candidate will be responsible for executing several studies associated with enhancing a Partner Nation’s defensive capabilities in the area of Integrated Air and Missile (IAMD). Well qualified candidates should have an understanding of the counter Unmanned Aircraft System (c-UAS) mission in addition to familiarity with Systems of Systems (SoS) architecture modeling. This position provides a challenging opportunity to apply and expand one’s systems architecture, modeling, and trade space analysis skills. This is an 18-month assignment with extended business trips with a possibility of extending beyond 18-months with an expected start date of August 15th.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Lead a team of Systems Engineers and Operations SMEs through a Mission Engineering (ME) analysis of a c-UAS mission for a Partner Nation (PN).
Apply Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices, methods, and tools to address our sponsor and partners' most pressing challenges.
Apply knowledge and principles of acquisitions, architecture design, system integration, risk assessment/management, and other systems engineering disciplines to support recommendations to address customer challenges.
Collaborate within MITRE and relevant partners to contribute to greater practice of Digital Engineering (DE) / Mission Engineering (ME) across the enterprise.
Evaluating and comparing alternative architectures using qualitative and quantitative techniques; exploring large trade spaces.
System Design and development (such as software development), systems modernization, and architecture.
Articulating major uncertainties associated with systems architectures, defining risks and opportunities associated with the uncertainties.
Identifying or developing metrics to measure and analyze relevant system properties, such as robustness, resiliency, interoperability, quality, robustness, and maintainability.
Supporting requirements management, interface management and architecture change management processes
Translating analysis results into actionable recommendations for the U.S. Government agencies.
Develop technical papers and presentations that can communicate such activities as architecture designs, Analysis of Alternatives, informational presentations, and technical analysis.
In coordination with work leader, assist in developing work proposals that align with customers and sponsors needs.
Work closely with foreign military members.
Basic Qualifications:
Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related field; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Must be a U.S. citizen with ability to possess and maintain a U.S. DoD Secret clearance
Ability to leverage systems analysis— technical and functional skillsets, maintain relationships with internal and external government representatives.
Familiarity with Digital Engineering tools to include Cameo, MATLAB, and AFSIM
Interest in complex multi-disciplinary problems
Expertise in systems and enterprise architecture
Mastery of modern system engineering methods
Experience rendering objective evaluation of vendor products and approaches
Ingenuity in applying a set of technical skills across multiple subject matter domains associated with c-UAS
Extended trips - up to 30% of your time spent on travel
This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related field and 10+ years applicable experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
Experience decomposing defense doctrine into Mission Threads
Experience defining Mission Engineering Threads give a Mission Thread and reference architecture
Proficiency in a least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java) to prototype capabilities and analyze data
Ability to maintain a U.S. DoD Top Secret clearance
Advanced degree in related field of study
Experience with multi-disciplinary modeling and simulation (physics-level, engineering-level and/or socio-technical-level)
Knowledge of methods for assessing the impacts of emerging technologies
Track record of leadership in Systems Engineering (SE) innovation, research, and publishing
Ability to transform state-of-the art in research for application to complex SE problems
Demonstrated technical management for SE projects that require cross-disciplinary collaboration
Experience working with foreign militaries
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
Secret
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Secret
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
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