Senior Modeling & Simulation Engineer

The MITRE Corporation•Honolulu, HI

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are 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. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. The Indo-Pacific Regional Operations Department (N554) works with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) and the Military Service Components on-island to inform warfighter requirements and Concepts of Operation (CONOPS), and provides Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) systems acquisition, engineering, and integration support to the Department of War (DOW) and U.S. Allies in the Pacific Theater. N554 is a dynamic and forward leaning organization that provides direct connections to warfighters. These direct connections allow staff to monitor and participate in current operations and exercises. A key output of this access is the ability to inform technology innovation and capability analysis with operational domain expertise. N554 operational depth and warfighter access has generated considerable expertise in the development and analysis of CONOPS, mission threads, use cases, and operational requirements. The Department establishes links between DoW sponsors and Coalition Partner development activities. N554 is on the cutting edge of current operations and is a major thought leader in force modernization. The Department is seeking to fill a Senior Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Engineer position supporting MITRE’s project with USINDOPACOM in Honolulu, Hawaii. MITRE aims to deliver quantifiable mission value and operational impact to the warfighter – primarily by accelerating technical innovation of new ideas and solutions to emerging operational problems. In general, we collaborate with acquisition stakeholders, technology innovators, operational analysts, and other mission partners to help accelerate the delivery of needed capabilities to operational and tactical level warfighters across the naval, joint, and combined force. This Senior M&S Engineer position will support multiple lines of effort across USINDOPACOM for model-based systems engineering (MBSE), operational analysis, Simulated Exercises (SIMEX), and the development of novel M&S techniques and capabilities pertaining to both U.S. and Indo-Pacific partner operations, activities, and investments (OAIs). This position provides challenging opportunities to apply one’s expertise to unique DoW problem sets in the Indo-Pacific by developing scenarios, building and running models, analyzing results, and communicating findings to sponsors.

Requirements

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
Demonstratable experience with model-based systems engineering, operational analysis, and/or modeling & simulation (including SIMEX)
Experience with development in Python
Experience with AFSIM and other M&S applications, and integration of models to perform more comprehensive simulations
Familiarity in the practical application of the various components of the Digital Engineering lifecycle (systems architecting and MBSE, Modeling and Simulation (M&S), etc.)
Desire and ability to learn new technologies, techniques, processes, software languages, platforms, and systems
Effective written and oral communications skills
Active Top-Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI
U.S. Citizenship required
This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site presence.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years of related experience; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
Prior experience working day-to-day in government-controlled DoW spaces and familiarity with DoW military missions
Familiarity with MBSE and developing integrated architectures using standards-based modeling language (e.g., UPDM, SysML, UML)
MagicDraw and Cameo Enterprise Architect & Teamwork Server for managing architecture models is preferred, but not required if the candidate has a strong ability to quickly learn new tools
Experience with developing add-ons or plugins for systems modeling tools
Active TS/SCI

Responsibilities

Applying understanding of model-based architecture and mission engineering best practices to improve or transform systems capabilities of DoW enterprise information environments
Using systems models to assess the impact of proposed changes on component or constituent systems
Contributing to the definition of capability and interoperability gaps, overlaps, opportunities, and constraints
Creating mission models (MT & METs) from the details from the operational products in MBSE tools (e.g., Cameo)
Creating mission architecture products (METs & System Architecture Views) from the mission models
Integrating MBSE (e.g., Cameo) and Operational Analysis (e.g., AFSIM) models to support quantitative and qualitative analysis
Constructing military models and entities of varying complexity in AFSIM.
Creating and enhancing operationally relevant scenarios that accurately represent actions, reactions, and interactions between entities in the AFSIM and Cameo simulations
Contributing to the development and execution of MS&A study plans and scenarios
Coordinating with team members to execute analysis of studies, analyze results, and prepare and present study findings
Collaborating with study leads and customer stakeholders to identify study requirements and develop relevant technical approaches
Analyzing complex systems-of-systems to provide actionable recommendations to US Indo-Pacific sponsors