Distinguished Chief Engineer

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Department Summary:

The Agile and Resilient Battle Management (ARBM) Division is a new organization within the Air and Space Forces Center (A&SFC) and manages a work program interconnected across MITRE's National Security Sector (MNS). The work program focuses on integrating requirements development with MAJCOM, future Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management capabilities and the underlying defensive cyber needs within the Department of the Air Force (DAF) and Joint warfighters. A key objective is creating the systems-of-systems technical architecture and prototyping across the A&SFC that will enable a resilient decision advantage.

ARBM Air Force sponsors span USAF major commands (e.g., PACAF, USAFE, AFCENT, ACC, AMC, AFSOC, etc.), PEO C3BM (ASE, ABMS, ORT, Kessel Run, Mission Planning, etc.) and other sponsors focused on communications and defensive cyber. The division strives to deliver world class technical expertise and capabilities in support of a set of the most challenging national security objectives. ARBM leads the development and implementation of advanced capabilities that will be critical to deter or defeat highly capable adversaries and where integration across the joint force is paramount. The chief engineer is accountable for ensuring MITRE's technical deliveries are beyond reproach given the importance of the missions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Chief Engineer of ARBM will be responsible for work with stakeholders across MNS to align and shape activities that have shared equities within other services and the IC. The Chief Engineer is accountable for ensuring close coordination with other Center and Division Chief Engineer's to ensure the requisite level of technical quality standards is met on interconnected efforts while ensuring the relevance and impact of our products.

The Chief Engineer responsibilities include:

Technical Quality

• Define, adapt, and implement technical quality program across ARBM's projects to ensure products and recommendations delivered to MITRE's sponsors are independent, data driven, and properly reviewed
• Provide assessment of FFRDC appropriateness of projects activities within ARBM's work program and provide recommendations to ensure impactful use of FFRDC staff and resources
• Collaborate with Chief Engineers across MNS, MPS, and MITRE Labs to identify opportunities to define technical quality norms across The MITRE Corporation

Technical Impact

• Ability to lead key technical areas across A&SFC and manage connections across MNS
• Represent ARBM's requirements to internal research and development community to assist with defining investments to address sponsor's pressing operational challenges
• Develop overall ARBM lab infrastructure and tools/training strategy
• Driven by shaping technical contributions from the perspective of impacting mission effectiveness

Strategy Development

• Partner in developing and refining ARBM division strategy
• Identification of new technical areas where MITRE is either uniquely positioned or has an opportunity to provide innovative capabilities
• Works to align ARBM work program to MITRE's Mission Critical Programs (MCP) when appropriate
• Identification of technical capability areas of focus for division aligned to current and future sponsor needs.
• Provide continuous assessment of ARBM division's technical capabilities to inform hiring activities and investment opportunities

Staff Development

• Demonstrates and promotes MITRE's cultural attributes (speed, risk-taking, adaptability, collaboration, grace and respect)
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship across teams delivering one-of-a-kind capabilities to the warfighter focused on operating within the highly contested environment
• Sets technical culture across an accomplished and senior set of technical
• Instills a culture of collaboration across all staff experience levels to improve MITRE's value to sponsor

Partnerships and Initiatives

• Coordinate technical outreach to industry, academia, and other stakeholders, ensuring that best practices and technologies are brought to bear on technical products
• Collaborate with Chief Engineers across MITRE (MPS, MNS, and MITRE Labs) to identify opportunities to align efforts and increase impact to sponsors
• ARBM Divisions representative to MITRE's internal research and development program
• Leads key technical area across A&SFC and manage connections across MNS (i.e. classified space capabilities that have stakeholders across Department of the Air Force, IC, and other services)
• Represents MITRE at conferences on relevant technologies or missions to ARBM's sponsor challenges

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 12 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 10 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• A strong leadership presence and demonstrated thought leadership.
• Proven track record in making technical contributions including work shaping to meet sponsor needs.
• Experience creating and leading technical strategies to increase the impact of outcomes.
• Experience driving innovation into the work program by leveraging R&D, facilitating engagement between researchers and relevant sponsors, and overseeing the transition of research results to sponsors to address mission outcomes.
• Proven Track record of partnering with organization (e.g., internal, academia, industry) to ensure capabilities and platforms are strategically leveraged in the execution of programs.
• Experience in shaping the workforce and skill mix to develop the technical capabilities of the staff to include high quality hires capable of technical impact and growth.
• Excellent communication skills in articulating complex topics to sponsors and staff.
• Active Top Secret Security Clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in multiple advanced technical domains, including Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management, Networking, Tactical COMMs, SATCOM, Mission Engineering, Operational Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, Complex Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Software Engineering, Defensive Cyber, Zero Trust
• TS/SCI, SAP

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

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

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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