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Department Summary:

Come join MITRE’s Strengthen Coalition Capabilities (N124) department, where we work on cutting edge technologies with U.S. and partner nation stakeholders. We maintain a diverse operational and technical workforce that can respond to regional security needs by developing concepts, requirements, prototypes, and models to independently inform and/or assess development and optimization of command and control, intelligence, fires, and integrated deterrence capabilities. We are seeking engineers to accelerate advancement of semi-robotic systems, decision support capabilities, and tactical communications along with aspiring regional security subject matter experts who are ready to lead and strengthen their business and technical skills. If this sounds like you and you’re ready contribute to U.S. and partner shared security objectives, we want to hear from you!

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Identify and apply Digital Engineering (DE) 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 foster adoption of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Engineering (DE).

• Conduct in-depth research for the current and future needs of our customers

• Reach across the company to innovation and inform our sponsors and stakeholders.

• Develop technical papers and presentations to inform decision makers.

• Lead small cross functional teams to execute systems engineering activities and/or technical analysis

• Assist in developing work proposals that align with sponsor and stakeholder needs.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience associated with systems engineering, software engineering, network engineering, data science, or modeling and simulation.

• Demonstrated ability to translate technical analysis into a coherent story for decision makers and clearly present findings or actionable recommendations.

• Experience working independently.

• Demonstrated contributions as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

• Experience integrating divergent team member approaches or interpretations to advance task performance. Experience interpreting stakeholder needs into an actionable approach.

• Awareness of international customers, culture and norms.

• Ability to acquire a Secret clearance or an active Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years’ experience working on an international related work program

• Experience working in the Department of Defense, national intelligence community, and/or multi-national security efforts.

• Knowledge of United States National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and unified command Theater Campaign Plans. Experience and familiarity in one or more mission areas:

• Command and Control

• Integrated Air and Missile Defense

• Intelligence operations.

• Electromagnetic spectrum operations.

• Joint fires and targeting.

• Tactical communications.

• Cybersecurity

• Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems(cUAS)

• Experience and familiarity with U.S. government and Department of Defense (DoD) practices, tools, and projects related to:

• Requirements development

• Mission Engineering approaches to requirements analysis

• Security Cooperation and Security Assistance Programs (e.g. Foreign Military Sales (FMS), Direct Commercial Sale (DCS) or others)

• Leadership

• Task or project leader experience

• Communicate

• Demonstrated ability to write, edit and deliver technical reports and briefings for operational sponsors.

• Collaboration

• Experience working with senior government leaders.

• Awareness and familiarity of ITAR and export control regulations and navigating foreign disclosure process

Ability to acquire a Top Secret/SCI clearance or an active Top Secret/SCI clearance

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

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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