Project Leader, Weapon Engineering Enterprise

The MITRE Corporation • Fort Walton Beach, FL

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership.

The Tactical Air Dominance Department (N151) is transforming warfighter operations by accelerating the adoption and fielding of advanced weapons systems capabilities. We accomplish our mission by integrating operational domain knowledge, validated mission threads, and digital engineering to rapidly prototype capabilities and assess tradeoffs in virtual environments through representative modeling, simulation, and experimentation. We strongly value deep technical and operational expertise, a mission-oriented mindset, and a desire to firmly link the acquisition of advanced capabilities to operational warfighters, analysts, and end-users.

Our department is seeking an experienced, assertive, highly entrepreneurial, and collaborative Project Leader to shape and execute our Weapons Engineering Enterprise work program with our AFLCMC/EB Armament Directorate sponsor at Eglin AFB, FL. The Armament Directorate is spearheading several Mission Capability Areas that integrate multiple weapon programs in support of critical warfighter requirements. The Mission Capability Area of ‘Long Range Strike’ requires understanding of the long-range kill chain and an advanced systems-of-systems integration approach. The Weapons Engineering Enterprise Project Leader will leverage modern development and acquisition approaches wherever possible accelerate the development and delivery of new weapon capabilities. This position offers challenging opportunities to apply integration, innovation, and analysis skills to directly address some of the Air Force’s highest priority challenges. The core project team will also be located at Eglin-Hurlburt site with deep technical reach back to multiple Innovation Centers and Program Divisions across MITRE.

Requirements

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of systems engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM related field; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• At least one year of Task or Project Leadership experience.
• Active DoD Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Knowledge of major government rapid, agile, and digital system acquisition processes/strategies and familiarity with program office organization and structure
• Experience in one or more technical domain areas such as: experimentation, simulation, emulation, network modeling, digital engineering, mission thread development and analysis, and/or software-intensive systems.
• Demonstrated strong technical contributions and warfighting domain expertise in one or more of the project’s critical areas of tactical datalinks, interoperability, mission/operational analysis, and/or long-range kill chain integration. Directly contribute to technical work products and deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively across challenging and diverse sponsors and stakeholders to propose, shape, and lead impactful work
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site presence.

Nice To Haves

• Active DoD TS/SCI Security Clearance
• Master’s degree in a STEM related field
• 3+ years Task/Project Leadership experience
• Deep technical knowledge in one or more domain areas such as: Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, Modeling and Simulation, Mission Engineering, Design of Experiments, Open Mission Systems (OMS), and/or Test and Evaluation
• Familiarity with the Long-Range Strike Mission Capability Area
• Previous experience working Special Access Programs (SAPs)

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall direction, technical quality, administration, resource planning, staffing, and internal and external coordination of the project as defined by MITRE and the Air & Space Forces Center.
• Partner with Department and Division Leadership in developing long term strategies for successful work plan growth and execution.
• Plan, schedule, and resource the project’s deliverable development and quality control activities commensurate to the Mission Value Chain (MVC) sponsor impact and technical characteristics.
• Establish regular battle rhythm for sponsor engagements and collaboration opportunities to include in-person meetings.
• Seek, engage, and apply resources and capabilities from the full range of MITRE’s organizations and locations to ensure the project employs best-fit talent to address its wide range of problem areas and technical domains.

Benefits

• competitive benefits
• exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth
• culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior