Mission Systems Engineer, Intermediate

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MITRE Technology and Engineering (MTE) System Engineering Technical Division is seeking an Intermediate Mission Engineer to support defense mission engineering, system of systems analysis, experimentation, and decision-support activities for complex operational missions. The candidate will help decompose missions into mission elements, characterize operational scenarios and vignettes, develop mission threads, define mission measures and metrics, analyze baseline and alternative mission approaches, and translate analytic findings into actionable recommendations for government and program stakeholders.

MITRE is seeking an experienced, assertive, highly entrepreneurial, and collaborative Intermediate Systems Engineer to execute our Architectures and Systems Engineering (ASE) Mission Engineering and Analysis Task with the Fighters & Advanced Aircraft Directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. This position offers challenging opportunities to apply integration, innovation, and analysis skills to directly address some of the Air Force's highest priority challenges such as the Next-Generation Air Dominance Family of Systems. This position is on-site at Wright-Patterson AFB and may require temporary duty travel to support critical sponsor objectives.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The ASE Mission Engineering and Analysis Engineer is responsible for executing a defined body of work in support of the sponsor's mission. This includes translating sponsor objectives into clear technical tasks and delivering products by working with a multidisciplinary team.

• Frame mission engineering problems and investigative questions: Define the mission problem, analysis purpose, decision context, assumptions, constraints, and investigative questions that guide the mission engineering effort.
• Characterize missions, CONOPS, scenarios, threats, environmental conditions, timelines, stakeholders, and constraints to establish a common understanding of the operational problem.
• Develop Measures of Success, Effectiveness, and Performance, along with key mission indicators, to connect system capabilities and technical performance to measurable mission outcomes.
• Create operational, functional, logical, and system-of-systems architecture products that describe mission activities, actors, systems, interfaces, dependencies, information exchanges, and operational relationships.
• Compare current mission execution with alternative concepts, technologies, capabilities, and architectures, using modeling, simulation, sensitivity analysis, and experimentation to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Evaluate quantitative and qualitative results with stakeholders and subject-matter experts, assess uncertainty, and produce recommended architectures, reports, models, visualizations, datasets, and reusable digital artifacts that support acquisition and capability decisions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, national security, or other mission-critical technical programs.
• Experience with analysis and data tools such as but not limited to Python, MATLAB, R, SQL
• Exposure to architecture/modeling tools: iGrafx, CAMEO, Rhapsody, or equivalent
• Exposure to modeling languages and frameworks: SysML, BPMN, UAF/UAFML, or related methods
• Exposure to simulation and mission analysis tools: Simulink, AFSIM, ITASE, NGTS, STL/Systems Tool Kit, OneSAF, or similar tools
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex missions, operational scenarios, system dependencies, system of systems interactions, or capability gaps
• Exposure developing or supporting the following: mission threads, operational scenarios, vignettes, CONOPS, use cases, functional flows, system architectures, interface concepts, requirements, measures and metrics, run matrices, trade studies, or analysis reports.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and operational findings clearly through briefings, white papers, visualizations, technical reports, and stakeholder discussions.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams that may include operators, engineers, software developers, modelers, data scientists, test personnel, subject matter experts, and government customers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance and m ust be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 5 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using architecture/modeling tools: iGrafx, CAMEO, Rhapsody, or equivalent
• Experience using modeling languages and frameworks: SysML, BPMN, UAF/UAFML, or related methods
• Experience using simulation and mission analysis tools: Simulink, AFSIM, ITASE, NGTS, STL/Systems Tool Kit, OneSAF, or similar tools
• Experience with mission engineering workstreams and leading small technical teams.
• Experience supporting Joint, Service, Combatant Command, acquisition, science and technology, prototyping, test, or experimentation organizations.
• Experience developing mission architectures that connect operational mission outcomes to system-level functions, capabilities, interfaces, dependencies, and performance parameters.
• Experience defining and applying MOSs, MOEs, MOPs, key performance parameters, operational measures, technical measures, and mission outcome metrics.
• Experience conducting tradespace analysis, gap analysis, sensitivity analysis, capability assessments, portfolio assessments, campaign analysis, operational analysis, or system of systems performance analysis.
• Experience evaluating kinetic and non-kinetic mission operations, including one or more of the following domains: air, maritime, land, space, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum operations, communications, command and control, fires, logistics, ISR, autonomy, or integrated air and missile defense.
• Experience with data pedigree, uncertainty quantification, model verification and validation, configuration management, and curation of reusable mission engineering artifacts.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with access to Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$95,200 - $119,000 - $142,800 Annual

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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