Principal Systems Engineer

4 weeks ago


Aberdeen, Maryland, United States MITRE Full time

At MITRE, we're committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges and creating lasting impact in fields like cybersecurity, healthcare, and defense. As a Principal Systems Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects and make a real difference in the world.

The successful candidate will leverage their systems engineering expertise to provide support across a variety of system development lifecycles, through the design, implementation, testing, and integration of enterprise systems and system-of-systems for the Army. This will include Army acquisition support, systems engineering, mission engineering, digital engineering, and leading efforts to better test, integrate, and deploy Army ISR sensors, systems, technologies, and capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Advise government program managers in defining the context, problem space, and vision to determine capabilities, priorities, road maps, and technology needs using modern system engineering approaches.
  • Apply systems engineering skills to drive a holistic approach to systems development and design.
  • Collaborate and work as part of multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Design architectures and mission threads to connect interrelated systems and lead efforts to better test, integrate, and deploy Electronic Warfare and intelligence systems.
  • Apply cutting-edge methods and tools to assess designs, identify, and mitigate performance constraints and gaps, evaluate proposed changes, and support verification and test.

Requirements:

  • Typically minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or PhD with 3 years of relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related experience and work experience.
  • Strong systems engineering skills and familiarity with independent Verification & Validation (V&V) testing.
  • Knowledge of systems architecture modeling, systems design, and development.
  • Army acquisition experience, preferably with direct interaction with Program Executive Offices.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
  • Ability to interact with sponsors, including helping to set the project direction, briefing results, and developing and presenting analytically based conclusions and recommendations.
  • Currently possess a Top-Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Mission knowledge of intelligence operations, the intelligence lifecycle, and intelligence systems.
  • Thorough understanding and experience with DoD Intelligence, SIGINT, or EW systems.
  • Demonstrated experience in converging solutions to achieve integrated systems solutions.
  • Hands-on proficiency with standards-based architecture modeling tools.
  • Ability to lead small teams for analysis and technical development.

MITRE is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.



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