Communications Engineer

The MITRE Corporation•San Diego, CA

3d•$156,400 - $234,600•Onsite

About The Position

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. The MITRE National Security Sector (MNS) and its National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) FFRDC are dedicated to solving the nation’s most complex security challenges—spanning the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community, interagency partners, industry, and international allies. As a trusted systems engineering and integration partner, NSEC bridges organizational boundaries to enable cross-cutting solutions, proactively assessing capability gaps and focusing on mission outcomes rather than isolated systems or processes. This position requires creative problem solving through novel applications of communications engineering, systems architecture, and software principles in collaboration with diverse and geographically dispersed teams.

Requirements

Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related 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.
Possess active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance
U.S. Citizenship required
Familiarity with Link-16 and Link-22 network designs and configurations
Familiarity with product lifecycle, trade studies, requirements, and interface definitions
Familiarity with tactical data link interfaces into shore-based, terrestrial networks.
Possess the familiarity with communications engineering processes required to provide unbiased advice, formulate courses of action, analyze programs, and make recommendations
Proven ability to work independently to learn new technologies, techniques, processes, software languages, platforms, and systems
Strong communication (verbal, written, and presentation) and interpersonal skills to interact with technical peers and government sponsors

Nice To Haves

An active TS/SCI clearance
Five years’ experience as a certified Joint Interface Control Officer (JICO)
Familiarity with MIL-STD-6016 and MIL-STD-6017 messaging
Familiarity with Joint Range Extension (JRE) systems and MIL-STD-3011 protocols (JREAP–A, JREAP-B and JREAP-C)
Analysis of operational mission sets/threads to inform network requirements
Ability to capture information exchange requirements (IERS) for Link-16 missions
Familiarity with Naval C4I & Space systems from technical and/or operational perspectives

Responsibilities

Analyzing complex communications, networking and data link systems and provide recommendations to US Naval sponsors
Defining capability and interoperability gaps, overlaps, opportunities, and constraints
Work in partnership with multiple stakeholders to develop optimal solutions accounting for various perspective and variables