USPACOM Lead Experimentation Engineer
About The Position
MITRE is seeking a Lead Experimentation Engineer to support its project with USPACOM in Honolulu, Hawaii. The role works with USPACOM, theater Service Components, and priority theater partners to define, drive, and implement cohesive experimentation campaigns and infrastructure for the Department of War and theater partners. The position supports MITRE’s goal of delivering quantifiable mission value and operational impact by accelerating technical innovation and the delivery of capabilities to operational and tactical warfighters across naval, joint, and combined forces. The engineer leads and facilitates multiple experimentation efforts, including operationally focused simulated experiments (SIMEX), modeling and simulation (M&S) sandbox approaches, partner-centric experimentation, and technologies and infrastructure for theater and distributed experimentation. The role also coordinates with acquisition stakeholders, technology innovators, operational analysts, mission partners, and other government, FFRDC, and MITRE experimentation organizations.
Requirements
- Typically, a bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (such as engineering, physics, statistics, or mathematics); or a bachelor’s degree in International Relations, International Security, or a similar field and 8 years of experience; or a master’s degree and 6 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Familiarity with the Pacific theater and applicable Department of War missions and problem sets.
- Prior experience working day to day in government-controlled Department of Defense spaces.
- Demonstrable knowledge of operational and developmental experimentation.
- Strong systems-of-systems engineering experience across weapon systems and mission sets.
- Familiarity with various Department of Defense acquisition approaches.
- Prior experience with U.S. Department of Defense systems-of-systems integration.
- Effective and influential oral communication skills, as well as strong written and oral communication skills.
- Active Top Secret clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of related experience; or 8 years of related experience and a master’s degree; or a Ph.D. with 5 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Working knowledge of model-based systems engineering, operational analysis, and modeling and simulation.
- Current knowledge of emerging technology being adopted into acquisition programs and/or the USPACOM theater.
- Familiarity with MITRE project management processes, capabilities, and associated tools.
- Demonstrated strategic planning capability and ability to provide actionable plans to government sponsors.
- Experience with and/or future interest in project and department leadership roles, including project leader, task leader, and group leader.
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
Responsibilities
- Shape, create, and facilitate cohesive USPACOM experimentation campaign plans that show how operational capabilities and plans are incrementally adapted and matured.
- Build and manage sponsor, MITRE, and stakeholder relationships related to USPACOM experimentation.
- Increase experimentation collaboration and coordination among USPACOM, theater Service Components, and priority theater partners.
- Develop a resourcing strategy with stakeholders to rapidly develop, acquire, maintain, and transition capability into the Pacific Theater.
- Design plans and infrastructure to enable distributed experimentation between MITRE’s McLean campus and USPACOM.
- Develop eventual transition plans and strategies for MITRE experimentation to USPACOM.
- Identify opportunities to leverage Service-unique experimentation to advance USPACOM priorities.
- Define key metrics to measure through experimentation and quantify improvements in operational capability.
- Collaborate with government, FFRDC, and MITRE experimentation leads and organizations to identify and integrate new technology into the theater.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
