Sentinel Enterprise Engineer

The MITRE Corporation • Clearfield, UT

3d • $95,200 - $142,800 • Onsite

About The Position

MITRE's Nuclear Weapons and C2 Platforms Department is seeking an Enterprise Engineer to provide expertise and support to the most critical challenges our sponsors and their missions. We provide technical guidance through rigorous modeling, simulation, and analytical methods to enhance program decision making and risk management. Our main sponsors possess the policy, warfighting, organizational, and program responsibilities within the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise. The selected candidate will contribute to advancing and providing cutting edge development enabling systems and resiliency engineering services for an Air Force Weapons System Program Office at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. This position is located with the Sponsor at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. On-site between the MITRE, BAE Systems, Gov, and NG sites at and around Hill Air Force Base.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) related field with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills for interaction with sponsors, project leaders, team members, and other government agencies. Must have the ability to coordinate and collaborate across engineering teams and with representatives from a wide range of government, not-for-profit, and commercial organizations.
• Experience working in collaborative team environments.
• Broad technical knowledge of the defense acquisition system policy and guidance.
• Broad technical knowledge of the nuclear enterprise.
• Ability to self-organize with minimal oversight.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance within one year of the hire date.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Ability to obtain knowledge and certifications related to system engineering, project management, and modeling languages
• Ability to work independently to learn new technologies, techniques, processes, software languages, platforms, and systems.
• Experience conducting research and analysis to drive technical recommendations.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Possess an active DoD SECRET clearance and ability to obtain and maintain DoD Top Secret level security clearance including SAP access.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs).
• Experience defining, producing, using, and supporting the information, such as model-based architecture descriptions, that describe and specify the characteristics of major defense systems
• Experience defining, producing, using, and supporting the information that describes and specifies the characteristics of complex system development enabling systems
• Experience interacting with multiple levels of Government and Military leadership.
• General understanding/familiarity with the defense acquisition system policy and guidance and the nuclear enterprise.
• General understanding/familiarity with the nuclear enterprise.
• Experience in writing technical reports with meaningful success in influencing technological plans and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership within MITRE and within our sponsor organizations to ensure delivery of safe, reliable, and effective weapon system communications and networking systems, while considering a broad range of factors to include operational requirements, cybersecurity, cryptography, mobile force integration, and human systems integration.
• Cultivate strong, trusted working relationships with our Air Force Nuclear Enterprise sponsors by understanding their needs and helping them solve their toughest problems.
• Lead and contribute to technical products that enable data-driven decisions and result in impactful mission outcomes.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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