Software Engineer, Lead

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

Department Summary:

The Warfighting Software Systems Integration & Experimentation department develops, integrates, and evaluates software-intensive systems that enable mission capabilities across joint, cyber, space, naval, and air warfighting environments. The department applies software engineering practices, in conjunction with systems integration, cybersecurity, digital engineering, modeling and simulation, and operational experimentation across the diverse Department of War (DoW) work programs to improve capability effectiveness, resiliency, and mission readiness.

The successful candidate will work with our partners in MITRE’s Army Division in Aberdeen to enable the successful development, experimentation, integration, and fielding of the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2).

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with government and industry stakeholders to ensure successful development, testing, and fielding of innovative Command and Control (C2) solutions including software, data integration, and capability integration areas such as fires, sensors, and autonomy.

• Interface with Army units to understand operational needs, assess challenges, and rapidly identify, analyze, and recommend effective technical solutions.

• Serve as a primary customer interface, maintaining strong communication with government leads to identifying emerging needs, providing regular status updates, and ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables.

• Proactively identify opportunities to accelerate delivery, improve efficiency, and mitigate programmatic and technical risks throughout execution.

• Ensure the rapid, timely, and high-quality delivery of technical products, solutions, and capabilities to customers.

• Build, lead, and mentor small engineering teams, including directing the work of a 5-person team to achieve program objectives and customer outcomes.

• Report status, opportunities, and challenges to internal management

• Manage task budget while meeting customer outcomes

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Proficiency in Java and/or Python, with experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.

• Experience using Git for version control, including GitLab/GitHub workflows, branching strategies, or collaborative development practices.

• Hands-on experience with unit and integration testing frameworks such as JUnit, pytest, or similar, and proficiency working in both Windows and Linux environments.

• Experience with containerized and cloud-native application delivery using Docker and Kubernetes, including container/image management and cluster orchestration.

• Knowledge of microservices architecture and command-and-control system architectures, with familiarity in one or more military data standards/protocols such as VMF, USMTF, CoT, or Link 16/JREAP.

• Experience operating in secure government/DoD environments, including RMF, STIG compliance, PKI/CAC authentication, or Agile/Scrum development within a program of record or government contract setting.

• Track record of developing innovative technical solutions

• Ability to clearly communicate with both internal and external audiences

• Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.

• This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with data engineering and pipeline technologies, including Apache NiFi for ingestion, routing, and transformation, Apache Kafka for real-time/event-driven streaming, and data modeling, mapping, and schema design.

• Demonstrated ability to lead an engineering team and a track record of exceptional performance in fast paced environments

• Successful track record of relationship development with customers

• Familiarity with Army and Joint DoW platforms (e.g., vehicles), radios, data sources, data standards, C2 software, hardware, edge compute, and capability integration.

• Experience with modern service development practices, including Swagger/OpenAPI code generation, Protocol Buffers (protobuf), and gRPC service development.

• Experience designing and optimizing data solutions, including ETL pipelines, relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Oracle, and NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch.

• Familiarity with DevSecOps and infrastructure automation tools, including Helm, CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or ArgoCD, Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible and Terraform, and working in air-gapped or classified environments with Iron Bank hardened container images.

• Master’s degree in a relevant field

• Active Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.

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):

Top Secret/SCI

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$156,800 - $196,000 - $235,200 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email [email protected] for general support and [email protected] for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply.

Benefits information may be found here (https://careers.mitre.org/us/en/benefits) .

Copyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.