Lead Missile Defense System Engineer
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. MITRE N262 department is seeking an experienced engineer and critical thinker with deep technical skills and a demonstrated track record of fostering, promoting, and fielding innovative ideas and solutions. This position will provide systems engineering support to a Missile Defense System Program office to support next generation interoperability and integrated missile defense capability. This is a Lead Systems Engineering step, Huntsville, AL based position; this work location is required to effectively foster relationships and shape the direct work program.
Requirements
- BS engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent and 8+ years’ experience in relevant domain
- Demonstrated systems engineering experience, including Command and Control (C2) and/or ground sensors
- Understanding of large, complex C2 System of Systems
- Understanding of ground and space-based sensor system capabilities
- Analytical, decision-making, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas to executive-level stakeholders
- Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance with the ability 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.
Nice To Haves
- Interface and interoperability development experience
- Analysis and assessment experience
- MS or higher degree, and 6 years of relevant work experience
- Depth of knowledge of Missile Defense systems
- Experience in requirements development and verification
- Expertise with models and simulations and/or model based systems engineering
Responsibilities
- Deliver missile defense systems engineering subject matter expertise directly to government programs to understand needs, execute and deliver quality analysis to inform leadership decisions.
- Stakeholder coordination – Coordinate across MDA and DoW enterprises and industry partners to achieve outcomes benefiting MDA and the DoW enterprise as a whole
- Inform technical development, test evaluation, and integration of data distribution enterprises, requirements, and concepts of operations
- Build partnerships and coordinate efforts across MITRE, Industry, and government sponsor programs
- Develop technical reports, products, and presentations on analysis results, options, and recommendations
- Present technical recommendations to government sponsors and stakeholders
- Lead technical capability developments within an integrated product team
Benefits
- competitive benefits
- meaningful career development
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
