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This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.MITRE’s Mission Engineering and System of Systems Engineering department within the Systems Engineering Technical Division is seeking driven, technically exceptional Lead Mission Systems Engineers to support various sponsor across the national security sector such as Department of War, Intelligence Community as well as the public sector to include DHS, HHS, and more. The candidates will support activities such as mission engineering, system of systems analysis, experimentation, and decision-support activities for complex operational missions.\nRoles and Responsibilities:\nDefine mission problems, analysis objectives, decision contexts, assumptions, constraints, and investigative questions. Collaborate with operators, government customers, engineers, analysts, and subject matter experts to validate mission context, data sources, and analytic approaches.\nDefine operational environments, CONOPS, scenarios, threats, timelines, and mission constraints. Develop operational, functional, logical, and system of systems architectures that capture mission activities, systems, interfaces, dependencies, and information flows.\nEstablish Measures of Success, Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, and supporting metrics. Apply modeling, simulation, experimentation, sensitivity analysis, and comparative assessments to evaluate baseline and alternative mission approaches, system of systems performance, risks, and mission impacts.\nAnalyze quantitative and qualitative results, assess uncertainty and confidence, and validate findings with stakeholders. Deliver actionable recommendations, mission architectures, briefings, reports, visualizations, models, and reusable digital artifacts to inform acquisition, prototyping, experimentation, and capability decisions.\nBasic Qualifications:\nTypically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, national security, or other mission-critical technical programs.\nKnowledge of the DoW R&E Mission Engineering Guide (MEG) v2\nExperience with analysis and data tools such as but not limited to Python, MATLAB, R, SQL\nExperience with architecture/modeling tools: iGrafx, CAMEO, Rhapsody, or equivalent\nExperience with modeling languages and frameworks: SysML 1.7, BPMN, UAF/UAFML, or related methods\nExperience with simulation and mission analysis tools: Simulink, AFSIM, ITASE, NGTS, STL/Systems Tool Kit, OneSAF, or similar tools\nAbility to analyze complex missions, operational scenarios, system dependencies, system of systems interactions, or capability gaps.\nExperience developing or supporting at least several of 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.\nAbility to communicate complex technical and operational findings clearly through briefings, white papers, visualizations, technical reports, and stakeholder discussions.\nAbility to work with cross-functional teams that may include operators, engineers, software developers, modelers, data scientists, test personnel, subject matter experts, and government customers.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nMust have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance and must 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.\nThis position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMaster’s degree in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.\nExperience supporting Joint Staff, Combatant Command, acquisition, science and technology, prototyping, test, or experimentation organizations.\nExperience executing and implementing DoW R&E MEG v2\nExperience developing mission architectures that connects operational mission outcomes to system-level functions, capabilities, interfaces, dependencies, and performance parameters.\nExperience defining and applying MOSs, MOEs, MOPs, key performance parameters, operational measures, technical measures, and mission outcome metrics.\nExperience conducting tradespace analyses, gap analysis, sensitivity analysis, capability assessments, portfolio assessments, campaign analysis, operational analysis, or system of systems performance analysis.\nExperience with live, virtual, and constructive experimentation; test event planning; wargaming; red/blue/green force representations; operational scenario development; or data collection in operationally relevant venues.\nExperience with data pedigree, uncertainty quantification, model verification and validation, configuration management, and curation of reusable mission engineering artifacts.\nActive DoD Top Secret clearance with access to Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).\nThis requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):\nSecretThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):\nTop Secret/SCISalary compensation range and midpoint:\n$146,400 - $183,000 - $219,600 AnnualWork Location Type:\nOnsiteIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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