Mission Systems Engineer, Lead with Security Clearance

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- and help shape the future. MITRE Technology and Engineering (MTE) System Engineering Technical Division is seeking a Lead Mission Systems Engineer to support defense mission engineering, system of systems analysis, experimentation, and decision-support activities for complex operational missions. The candidate will develop and deliver integrated mission capabilities that enable the Air Force, Space Force, Joint Force, and Coalition partners to operate at the speed of relevance. The candidate will decompose missions into mission elements, characterize operational scenarios and vignettes, develop mission threads, and define mission measures and metrics that will help shape the future of command and control (C2) capabilities supporting Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) and Long-Range Kill Chains (LRKC). The candidate will be supporting the Department of the Air Force Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management (DAF PEO C3BM) providing technical guidance for the architecture of the Department of the Air Force Battle Network (DBN)
- one of the AF's highest modernization priorities. Roles and

Responsibilities:
* Frame mission engineering problems and investigative questions: Define the mission problem, analysis purpose, decision context, assumptions, constraints, and investigative questions that guide the mission engineering effort.
* Engage with DAF CEO C3BM maintaining awareness of Architecture Systems Engineering (ASE) Mision Increments and other evolving operational and acquisition architecture efforts to ensure architectural consistency.
* Characterize missions, CONOPS, scenarios, threats, environmental conditions, timelines, stakeholders, and constraints to establish a common understanding of the operational problem.
* Develop Measures of Success, Effectiveness, and Performance, along with key mission indicators, to connect system capabilities and technical performance to measurable mission outcomes.
* Create operational, functional, logical, and system-of-systems architecture products that describe mission activities, actors, systems, interfaces, dependencies, information exchanges, and operational relationships.
* Compare current mission execution with alternative concepts, technologies, capabilities, and architectures, using modeling, simulation, sensitivity analysis, and experimentation to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
* Evaluate quantitative and qualitative results with stakeholders and subject-matter experts, assess uncertainty, and produce recommended architectures, reports, models, visualizations, datasets, and reusable digital artifacts that support acquisition and capability decisions. Minimum

Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
* Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
* Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, national security, or other mission-critical technical programs.
* Familiarity with model-based engineering methods and tools such as MBSE, iGrafx, CAMEO, Rhapsody, or other related tools.
* Familiarity with modeling frameworks and languages such as UAF/UAFML, SysML, BPMN, or equivalent.
* Demonstrated ability to analyze complex missions, operational scenarios, system dependencies, system of systems interactions, or capability gaps.
* Experience developing or supporting at least several of the following: mission threads, operational scenarios, vignettes, CONOPS, use cases, functional flows, system architectures, interface concepts, requirements, measures and metrics, run matrices, trade studies, or analysis reports.
* Experience evaluating kinetic and non-kinetic mission operations, including one or more of the following domains: air, maritime, land, space, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum operations, communications, command and control, fires