{"id":3246882,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mitre-systems-engineering-methods-innovation-capability-chief-engineer","title":"Systems Engineering Methods & Innovation Capability Chief Engineer","company":{"id":37980,"name":"MITRE","domain":"mitre.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/mitre","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Phenom","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["McLean, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":190000,"max":237500,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":237500},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-19","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T10:36:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. 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 Technology and Engineering’s Systems Engineering Division delivers innovative, multidisciplinary systems engineering solutions that support MITRE and its diverse sponsor base. The division is a leader across government, industry, and academia in advancing next-generation systems engineering and applying best practices to complex national security and public sector challenges. Its technical expertise includes:\nMission, Enterprise, and Domain Engineering\nSystems Engineering, Architecting, and Lifecycle Integration\nDigital Engineering, Prototyping, and Modernization\nArchitecture, Interfaces, and Open Systems\nPerformance Analysis, Test, and Evaluation\nAI-Enabled Systems Engineering\nThe division applies these capabilities across sponsors to address broad national challenges, integrate lessons learned across domains, and continuously strengthen MITRE’s impact and differentiated value in systems engineering.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nThe Systems Engineering Division is seeking a visionary technical leader to serve as Systems Engineering Methods & Innovation Capability Chief Engineer (CCE). The CCE will work with division leadership, department managers, and peer CCEs to define and drive the technical strategy, execution, and application of systems engineering methods and innovation. The role advances how MITRE engineers by developing and applying a coherent portfolio of methods, techniques, tools, model-based and digital approaches, modeling and simulation, experimentation, executable evidence, AI-enabled engineering, automation, and decision support. The successful candidate will ensure that no single method or tool is treated as synonymous with systems engineering and will bring recognized technical expertise, inspirational leadership, creativity, and the flexibility to work across evolving and diverse problem sets.\nThe CCE will collaborate with the Division Chief Engineer, Department Managers, peer CCEs, and technical leaders across MITRE to bring division capabilities to bear on MITRE's FFRDC work programs. In coordination with the Division CE, the CCE will be accountable for the utility and quality of the capabilities supported by the division, including applicable physical and virtual lab infrastructure, shared frameworks, methods, and technical approaches. While this is not a formal people management role, the CCE will contribute to staff development and provide technical mentorship across the division.\nIn addition to direct work within the FFRDCs, the CCE will engage with MITRE's internal research and development program to influence research priorities, shape research programs, and mentor staff from early concept development through proposal and project execution.\nThe CCE will also provide individual, senior principal technical support directly to MITRE's work programs. The CCE's direct sponsor contributions will focus on technical leadership in systems engineering methods and innovation.\nKey Roles & Responsibilities\nTechnical Quality and Impact\nLead technical quality efforts and contribute to the development and adoption of technical quality standards within key work programs and labs or capabilities.\nDrive technical quality across systems engineering methods and innovation by leading capability development, recommending strategic investments, stewarding applicable physical and virtual infrastructure, and curating technical development and mentorship opportunities.\nCollaborate with the Division CE, peer CCEs, and partners in MNS and MPS to strengthen the technical work program by:shaping content through participation in technical product definition and reviews\nsetting expectations for current work and the future work program\nbringing a perspective grounded in systems engineering foundations, evidence-based practice, and the state of the art\n\nStrategy Development & Innovation\nExecute and evolve division technical strategy aligned with MITRE's S&T strategy. Identify opportunities to advance the portfolio of methods, techniques, tools, model-based and digital approaches, modeling and simulation, experimentation, AI-enabled engineering, automation, and decision support.\nIdentify innovation opportunities for work programs and internal research and development. Propose or lead cross-cutting initiatives that convert promising research and technology into usable systems engineering practice.\nDevelop and maintain relationships with key technical leaders across MITRE program divisions, internal research and development, and external partners.\nCoordinate technical outreach to industry, academia, government communities, and other stakeholders so relevant research, standards, tools, and practices inform technical products.\nLead cross-department or cross-division technical initiatives, as needed, with measurable impact, coordinating with enterprise technical leadership when scope or decisions extend beyond the division.\nCapability Stewardship & Governance\nConduct ongoing health and quality evaluations of systems engineering methods and innovation capabilities, including staff skills, reusable methods, modeling and simulation environments, digital infrastructure, toolchains, reference implementations, and evidence of sponsor utility.\nProvide timely recommendations to division leadership on the establishment, sustainment, integration, or retirement of methods, tools, infrastructure, platforms, and frameworks that support effective systems engineering delivery.\n Staff Development (non-supervisory, but accountable for technical mentorship)\nMentor and develop technical staff and cultivate career paths that combine systems engineering judgment with depth in methods, modeling, experimentation, software, data, or AI.\nProvide input to talent assessment and staff development planning.\nDirect Sponsor / Program Contributions\nProvide individual, differentiated technical contributions directly to sponsors and internal customers, focusing on technical leadership with measurable impact in systems engineering methods and innovation.\nBasic Qualifications:\nMinimum of 12 years of systems engineering methods or related technical experience with a bachelor's degree; or 10 years and a master's degree; or a PhD with 7 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of related systems engineering education and work experience.\nDeep technical expertise and recognition in systems engineering methods, analysis, and evidence-driven engineering practice.\nDemonstrated ability to exert meaningful influence over strategic decisions in complex, multi-stakeholder, collaborative environments.\nDemonstrated track record of learning about and rapidly responding to new problems across a variety of domains.\nExperience selecting, adapting, integrating, and evaluating systems engineering methods based on the mission problem, available evidence, lifecycle context, and decision need.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain challenging technical concepts to expert and non-expert audiences.\nMentoring experience in formal or informal roles across a range of staff experience levels and team sizes.\nDemonstrated proficiency in virtual and live presentations of complex technical issues.\nTechnical expertise and influence to improve mission outcomes in alignment with division and department strategies and in coordination with the Systems Engineering Chief Engineer.\nMust have an active Top Secret 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:\nA graduate degree in systems engineering, operations research, computer science, applied mathematics, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\nActive Top Secret/SCI clearance.\nExperience developing, validating, or scaling systems engineering methods and translating research into repeatable sponsor practice.\nExperience with model-based systems engineering, digital engineering, digital threads, systems engineering software, or relevant modeling languages.\nExperience using modeling and simulation, executable models, prototypes, experimentation, or test evidence to evaluate alternatives and support decisions.\nExperience applying AI-enabled engineering, data-driven techniques, automation, software, or computational workflows to systems engineering problems.\nDemonstrated track record of building strong internal and external partnerships and contributing to professional communities through publications, conferences, open-source work, or standards activities.\nExperience designing decision support approaches that connect technical evidence, uncertainty, risk, cost, schedule, and mission outcomes.\nThis requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):\nTop SecretThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):\nTop SecretSalary compensation range and midpoint:\n$190,000 - $237,500 - $285,000 AnnualWork Location Type:\nOnsiteIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.\nCommitment to Non-Discrimination\nAll 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.\nMITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email  for general support and  for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply.\nBenefits information may be found here.\nCopyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. 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