Mission Systems Engineer, Lead

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MITRE’s Mission Engineering and System of Systems Engineering department within the Systems Engineering Technical Division is seeking driven, technically exceptional Lead Mission Systems Engineers to support various sponsor across the national security sector such as Department of War, Intelligence Community as well as the public sector to include DHS, HHS, and more. The candidates will support activities such as mission engineering, system of systems analysis, experimentation, and decision-support activities for complex operational missions.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Define mission problems, analysis objectives, decision contexts, assumptions, constraints, and investigative questions. Collaborate with operators, government customers, engineers, analysts, and subject matter experts to validate mission context, data sources, and analytic approaches.

• Define operational environments, CONOPS, scenarios, threats, timelines, and mission constraints. Develop operational, functional, logical, and system of systems architectures that capture mission activities, systems, interfaces, dependencies, and information flows.

• Establish Measures of Success, Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, and supporting metrics. Apply modeling, simulation, experimentation, sensitivity analysis, and comparative assessments to evaluate baseline and alternative mission approaches, system of systems performance, risks, and mission impacts.

• Analyze quantitative and qualitative results, assess uncertainty and confidence, and validate findings with stakeholders. Deliver actionable recommendations, mission architectures, briefings, reports, visualizations, models, and reusable digital artifacts to inform acquisition, prototyping, experimentation, and capability decisions.

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. Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, national security, or other mission-critical technical programs.

• Knowledge of the DoW R&E Mission Engineering Guide (MEG) v2

• Experience with analysis and data tools such as but not limited to Python, MATLAB, R, SQL

• Experience with architecture/modeling tools: iGrafx, CAMEO, Rhapsody, or equivalent

• Experience with modeling languages and frameworks: SysML 1.7, BPMN, UAF/UAFML, or related methods

• Experience with simulation and mission analysis tools: Simulink, AFSIM, ITASE, NGTS, STL/Systems Tool Kit, OneSAF, or similar tools

• Ability to analyze complex missions, operational scenarios, system dependencies, system of systems interactions, or capability gaps.

• Experience developing or supporting at least several of the following: mission threads, operational scenarios, vignettes, CONOPS, use cases, functional flows, system architectures, interface concepts, requirements, measures and metrics, run matrices, trade studies, or analysis reports.

• Ability to communicate complex technical and operational findings clearly through briefings, white papers, visualizations, technical reports, and stakeholder discussions.

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams that may include operators, engineers, software developers, modelers, data scientists, test personnel, subject matter experts, and government customers.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance and 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 4 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.

• Experience supporting Joint Staff, Combatant Command, acquisition, science and technology, prototyping, test, or experimentation organizations.

• Experience executing and implementing DoW R&E MEG v2

• Experience developing mission architectures that connects operational mission outcomes to system-level functions, capabilities, interfaces, dependencies, and performance parameters.

• Experience defining and applying MOSs, MOEs, MOPs, key performance parameters, operational measures, technical measures, and mission outcome metrics.

• Experience conducting tradespace analyses, gap analysis, sensitivity analysis, capability assessments, portfolio assessments, campaign analysis, operational analysis, or system of systems performance analysis.

• Experience with live, virtual, and constructive experimentation; test event planning; wargaming; red/blue/green force representations; operational scenario development; or data collection in operationally relevant venues.

• Experience with data pedigree, uncertainty quantification, model verification and validation, configuration management, and curation of reusable mission engineering artifacts.

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with access to Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).

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:

$146,400 - $183,000 - $219,600 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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