Systems Engineer, Senior - Security Clearance Required

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Department Summary :

Systems modeling and analysisis a crucial process in systems engineering that involves creating and integrating abstract models of complex systems to understand, analyze, and predict system behaviors under various conditions.

It is fundamental in designing and improving systems across diverse domains, including engineering, software development, business process management, data management, and environmental studies.

At MITRE, we leverage our deep multi-disciplinary engineering expertise to create and integrate abstract models of complex mission scenarios and systems to understand, analyze, and predict operational and functional behaviors under various conditions.

These models can then be used to highlight critical gaps between mission needs and system performance, improving our sponsor decision making process.

We advocate for and use a digital engineering approach to educate our sponsors about the benefits and importance of digital adoption to enhance the access, management, analysis, and distribution of critical engineering information from a common set of digital engineering artifacts over the course of the mission and / or systems life cycle.

Job Description :

• Working with MITRE experts to develop and analyze systems engineering design and execution using MBE methodologies.
• Supporting project teams creating deliverables for MITRE sponsors.
• Generating artifacts, models, and visualizations for use internal to MITRE and sponsors.
• Assist our MITRE experts with MBE knowledge management, research and other efforts to grow our body of knowledge in the MBE capability disciplines.

Basic Qualifications :

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree;

or a PhD without experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Experience in early lifecycle engineering eliciting, tracing, and managing use cases, requirements, systems architectures, and using these products to conduct trade studies.
• Ability to build and assess systems engineering and architecture models in SysML, UML, and / or UAPF to conduct technical assessments that inform key technical decisions made by a sponsor or organization.
• Experience using DOORs, iGrafix, Cameo / MSOSA, Rhapsody, Simulink, or other MBSE tools.
• Proficiency in MS Office including Outlook, Excel, and Word.
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills for engagements with sponsors, MITRE staff and other stakeholders.
• Must have current and active SECRET clearance.
• Willingness and ability to obtain and maintain a TS / SCI Poly level security clearance; if necessary

Preferred Qualifications :

• 8 or more years of experience in systems engineering, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
• Expert use of iGrafix, Cameo / MSOSA, Rhapsody, or another architecture tool.
• Expert use of SysML.
• Ability to work in MatLab, STK, AFSIM, and / or Simulink, and integrate outputs into Cameo / MSOSA or other MBSE tools.
• Expert use of UAF, UPDM, and other architecture frameworks.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s) :

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s) :

Salary compensation range and midpoint :

$111,000 - $138,500 - $166,000 Annual

Work Location Type : Hybrid

Hybrid

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