Senior Systems Engineer

The MITRE Corporation•New Bedford, MA

1d•$121,200 - $181,800•Onsite

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. MITRE Technology and Engineering’s Systems Engineering Division delivers innovative, multidisciplinary systems engineering solutions that support MITRE and its diverse sponsor base. The division is a leader across government, industry, and academia in advancing next-generation systems engineering and applying best practices to complex national security and public sector challenges. Its technical expertise includes: Mission, Enterprise, and Domain Engineering Systems Engineering, Architecting, and Lifecycle Integration Digital Engineering, Prototyping, and Modernization Architecture, Interfaces, and Open Systems Performance Analysis, Test, and Evaluation AI-Enabled Systems Engineering The division applies these capabilities across sponsors to address broad national challenges, integrate lessons learned across domains, and continuously strengthen MITRE’s impact and differentiated value in systems engineering.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or PhD with relevant experience
This position requires a Secret Clearance and the ability to obtain a Top Secret Clearance
U.S. Citizenship is required.
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Nice To Haves

Active TS/SCI clearance
Advanced degree in a relevant field
Proficiency with modern systems and digital engineering tools (e.g., MBSE, SysML/UML, DOORS, Cameo/MagicDraw, Rhapsody) and development of plugins/extensions
Strong quantitative and modeling skills using languages and tools such as AFSIM, MATLAB, Python/R, STK, and Command PE for multi-level modeling, simulation, and operational effectiveness analysis
Deep systems and enterprise architecture experience, with broad systems engineering across concept development, requirements, design, test, evaluation, and risk assessment
Demonstrated ability to independently lead systems engineering analyses in complex, multi-disciplinary systems-of-systems environments, including objective evaluation of vendor solutions and integration of models across tools
Excellent verbal and written communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills, with a track record of innovation, research, or publishing in systems, mission, or digital engineering

Responsibilities

Leverage and grow your systems engineering expertise to support the design, implementation, and integration of enterprise systems and systems-of-systems and analysis of missions for federal agencies.
Use your understanding of systems and mission engineering and an awareness of sponsor needs to determine areas where MITRE can have an impact.
Apply modern methods and tools such as Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Mission Engineering, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics to assess capability needs, requirements, architectures, designs, performance constraints and gaps, proposed changes, and verification and test approaches.
Evaluate and compare alternative architectures using qualitative and quantitative techniques and explore large tradespaces.
Articulate major uncertainties associated with systems architectures and define risks and opportunities associated with those uncertainties.
Identify or develop metrics to measure and analyze relevant system properties, such as robustness, resiliency, interoperability, quality, and maintainability.
Support and lead requirements management and analysis, interface management, architecture development, architecture change management, and test and evaluation processes.
Perform system design and development, systems modernization, and architecture activities using MBSE and digital engineering approaches.
Translate analysis results into actionable recommendations for U.S. Government agencies.
Lead small teams of systems engineers and analysts to develop data-driven products to support government decision-making.
Participate in internal and external research opportunities in cutting-edge engineering fields.