Senior Systems and Mission Engineer - Security Clearance Required

MITRE Corporation - Bedford, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Bedford, MA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Systems and Mission Engineer at MITRE will leverage their systems engineering expertise to address complex challenges in various domains, including defense, healthcare, and cybersecurity. This role involves modeling architectures, creating simulation assets, and translating analysis results into actionable recommendations for government agencies, all while contributing to meaningful work that impacts national security and public interest.

Responsibilities

• Modeling architectures of complex systems using standards-based languages (e.g., SysML).
• Creating modeling, simulation, and analysis assets to evaluate architectures and processes.
• Articulating major uncertainties associated with systems architectures, defining risks and opportunities.
• Prototyping technologies to improve Systems Engineering practices or facilitate adoption by US Government agencies.
• Translating analysis results into actionable recommendations for US Government agencies.

Requirements

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Must be a US citizen capable of obtaining and maintaining a US government clearance.
• Experience with systems design and development and multidisciplinary modeling and simulation.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience applying technical skills across multiple subject matter domains, such as healthcare and defense.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages for quantitative analyses (e.g., MATLAB, Python, R) and/or general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Java or C+).

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced degree in Systems/Industrial/Aerospace Engineering or other relevant technical fields with a focus on multidisciplinary issues.
• Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance.
• Experience with Analysis of Alternatives/Trade Space Analysis, Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification, Design of Experiments, and Data Analytics.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Java, C+, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, SQL.
• Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning methods and their application to Systems Engineering.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits
• Exceptional professional development opportunities
• Culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth