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The MITRE Corporation Principal Systems Engineer (Air and Space Forces Center) in Fairborn, Ohio

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

Department Summary:

The Tactical Air Dominance Department (N151) is transforming warfighter operations by accelerating the fielding of advanced families of weapon systems through digital acquisition, advanced simulation and emulation, resilient communications, and autonomy experimentation. Our work programs contribute to the United States Air Force Operational Imperatives where we are enabling the warfighter to execute current and emerging kill chains effectively and efficiently in highly contested environments. We strongly value deep technical and operational expertise, a mission-oriented mindset, and a desire to firmly link the acquisition of advanced capabilities to operational warfighters, analysts, and end-users.

Our department is seeking candidates with expert level knowledge and interest in mission engineering, modeling and simulation, and operational analysis. In this role you will work across the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) sponsors to shape and cohere effects chain and operational analysis efforts. Successful candidate(s) will understand end-to-end mission effects chains, including the underlying sensing, command and control, fires, and logistics, and how these variables would be employed in the mission-effects chain. Successful candidate(s) will implement and lead mission engineering, modeling and simulation, and operational analysis efforts to provide data driven products for our Sponsors.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The selected individual will be responsible for:

  • Applying advanced systems engineering expertise to inform decision making for DoD sponsors.

  • Designing and implementing studies to evaluate system designs and architectures.

  • Generating, decomposing, and reviewing system requirements.

  • Modeling system requirements, behaviors and interfaces through Digital Engineering processes and tools.

  • Leading the development of technical solutions and communicating these solutions in support of MITRE’s defense sponsors.

  • Developing technical papers and presentations that can communicate such activities as architecture designs, Analysis of Alternatives, informational presentations, and technical analysis.

  • Collaborating with other engineers across MITRE’s organizations in order to coordinate development efforts, bring the expertise of others to bear on projects, and to ensure common standards of product quality.

  • This position will require a minimum of four days a week working on site in DoD Sponsor spaces.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field with a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 8 years and a Master’s degree, or a PhD with 5 years’ experience.

  • Active DoD TOP SECRET/SCI Security Clearance.

  • Demonstrated hands on experience in producing high quality technical deliverables to inform evidence-driven decision making.

  • Expert level experience with systems engineering lifecycle activities (requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, sustainment) for DoD Sponsors.

  • Demonstrated experience in collaborating and communicating with senior level DoD sponsors

  • Strong interest in aircraft system design, aircraft integration, and early weapon systems engineering.

  • Demonstrated experience with object-oriented software languages (Java, C++, etc.), schema-based languages (JSON, XML, etc.), and/or scripting languages (Python)

  • Ability to work and communicate effectively within multi-disciplinary teams.

  • Ability to work on site four days a week or more depending on mission objectives.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Graduate level degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or similar STEM field

  • Active DoD TOP SECRET/SCI Security Clearance with significant experience working on special access programs

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

Top Secret/SCI

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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