Associate Communications Engineer

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MITRE's Nuclear Weapons and C2 Platforms Department is seeking an Associate Communications Engineer to provide expertise and support to the most critical challenges our sponsors and their missions face. We provide technical guidance through rigorous modeling, simulation, and analytical methods to enhance program decision making and risk management. Our main sponsors possess the policy, warfighting, organizational, and program responsibilities within the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise.

Job Description:

• Understand our Air Force sponsors' communications and networking needs
• Perform modeling, simulations, and analysis of communications and network systems
• Contribute to technical product and assessments that ensure delivery of safe, reliable, and effective weapon system communications and networking capabilities

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar field or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Significant college courses in digital and wireless communications
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, and/or STK
• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to acquire and maintain a Top-Secret clearance
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience applying digital and wireless communications knowledge and skills outside of the classroom in an internship, co-op or research work
• Experience or training in communications system design and configuration
• Experience with Riverbed Modeler, C++, and DevOps principals
• U.S. military, DoD civilian, or DoD contractor work experience.
• Desire to grow communications engineering technical expertise
• Active DoD Top-Secret clearance.

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

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$89,200 - $111,500 - $133,800 Annual

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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