Systems Engineering Intern

The Mitre Corporation•San Diego, CA
•$46,500 - $69,500•Onsite

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. The Systems Integration Department is charged with identifying, developing, and applying new technologies that can address the Government's most challenging Systems Engineering problems. This is an opportunity for experienced engineers who are highly motivated, innovative, and proactive. This position provides challenging opportunities to apply and expand one’s architecture modeling and system integration skillsets. Areas of interest include Model Based Engineering (MBSE, MDA, MDD, MDE), Systems of Systems, architecture modeling, analysis of complex systems, and decision support.

Requirements

  • Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
  • Familiarity with a programming or technical computing language such as Python or MATLAB.
  • Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Systems Integration, or related systems modeling and architecture concepts.
  • U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain the required U.S. government security clearance
  • This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Nice To Haves

  • Academic, project, or internship experience with systems engineering, analysis, modeling and simulation, software development, or a related technical area.

Responsibilities

  • Model architectures of complex systems using standards-based frameworks and languages (e.g. UAF, SysML, UML).
  • Design and develop prototypes, dashboards and/or plugins using Java, Python, and related programming languages.
  • Assist in evaluating architectures using qualitative and quantitative techniques.

Benefits

  • competitive benefits
  • meaningful career development
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