Software Engineer

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Department Summary:

MITRE's Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Protection Department (N112) works with its government sponsors across space warfighting, acquisition and other mission partners to improve actionable warfighter decisions through enhanced battlespace awareness and reduced timelines achieved by improved sensing and protection against threats. Department projects focus on system integration efforts to successfully incorporate new technologies and software applications in support of a resilient Space enterprise infrastructure, sensing, and an integrated command and control (C2) system. N112 also performs numerous sensor system prototyping and analysis activities including modeling, software tool development, and analysis capabilities designed to enable MITRE and sponsor-driven analysis and research across multiple customers, missions, and technology providers. The research, development, and outcomes of these efforts provide high-quality, comprehensive, quantitative insights for senior government decision makers shaping the future of our nation's Space policy, operations, and systems.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Perform engineering duties in a dynamic, fast-paced team environment interacting with technical team members from multiple organizations while completing tasks on projects that solve crucial challenges faced by decision-makers.
• Develop software tools for assessing the utility and performance of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Space Domain Awareness (SDA) enterprise-level architectures, and Space Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) concepts and systems against sponsor requirements.
• Develop software tools for sensing experiments and prototyping activities including class-leading modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities designed to enable MITRE and sponsor-driven analysis and research.
• Perform operational analysis in support of USSF mission capabilities.
• Developing technical prototypes to convey opportunities, gaps, and risks to MITRE sponsors, end users, and stakeholders.
• Authoring and contributing to technical papers and presentations that can communicate activities such as architecture designs, Analysis of Alternatives, informational presentations, and technical analysis.
• Collaborating with other engineers across MITRE's organizations in order to coordinate development efforts, bring the expertise of others to bear on projects, and to ensure common standards of product quality.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Experience using software languages and tools such as Java, Python, MATLAB, C, or C++.
• Ability to develop and execute physics-based modeling/simulation to support critical analysis of live data and simulation results for recommendations and lessons learned.
• Apply knowledge and principles of engineering analysis or data science disciplines to support recommendations to address sponsor challenges.
• Self-starter capable of working in a team-based, dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to complete tasks, drive projects to closure, and assimilate and correlate project information in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to reach out to technical experts.
• Excellent technical writing and presentation skills.
• Strong motivation to expand knowledge and skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Applied experience with Agile and Scaled Agile Framework practices.
• Experience using collaborative software development tools such as GitLab, Jira, and Confluence.
• Experience in cross-platform, multiple environment development.
• Experience in operations research and operational assessment methods.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and apply knowledge of a technical domain to software development or modeling, simulation, and analysis, particularly in the Space domain.
• Experience presenting and/or publishing research and its impact to a wide audience.
• Possess an active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
None

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$82,000 - $102,500 - $123,000 Annual

Work Location Type:
Hybrid

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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