USAFE Joint Fires Systems Engineer

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The Operational Innovation and Modernization Department (N173) partners with the Mobility Air Forces and Combat Air Forces as well as MITRE’s DoW Mission Driven Integration Center Divisions, to include the EUCOM and AFRICOM Regional Operations Department, to inform warfighter requirements, modernization priorities, and new concepts. The department drives the rapid transformation of current and future USAF warfighter operations through prototyping; digital engineering; mission analysis; innovative concept development, requirements development and application of enabling technologies; and operational and technical assessments through experimentation and field evaluations.

N173 is a dynamic and forward leaning organization that provides direct connections to warfighters. These direct connections allow staff to monitor and participate in current operations and exercises. N173 operational expertise informs technology innovation and capability analysis, as well as development and analysis of Concepts of Operation, mission threads, use cases, and operational requirements.

Roles & Responsibilities:

You will be part of a MITRE team working directly with United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA), US European Command and other joint and combined partners to plan and integrate cutting edge technology and advanced operational concepts to continually enhance the command’s ability to plan, integrate and execute both kinetic and non-kinetic effects and informing the requirements, development, deployment, and assessment of operational capabilities.

The successful candidate will have strong expertise in military doctrine, operations, and systems to provide operational insight, guidance and direction for USAFE-AFAFRICA’s Fight Tonight, Fight Tomorrow, Fight Together problem spaces as well as future concepts experimentation and analysis. A strong understanding of DoW Joint processes and the ability to understand Air Domain problem spaces within BMC2, the Joint Air Tasking Cycle, Joint All Domain Operations, and Tactical and Operational C2 processes will be critical to this position.

The candidate will be able to provide observations, insights and thought leadership in the convergence of all domains supporting operations in contested environments (Joint All Domain Operations). This thought leadership must include the ability to consider variables impacting multiple functional areas such as fires (kinetic and non-kinetic), airspace integration, data standards, systems interoperability, and coalition/alliance operations.

This position requires a broad thinker with the ability to develop realistic as-is scenarios that underpin complex analysis, while also being able to design credible approaches to implement forward-looking next-generation doctrinal concepts. Candidates should be highly collaborative and able to work effectively with a wide range of engineers, mission domain experts, and military personnel. In addition to broad military operations experience, candidates should have deep domain knowledge with one or more of the following areas: Targeting, C2, ISR, Space, Cyber, Special Operations, or other related domains.

Responsibilities include:

Domain / Technical competence.

Demonstrate strong familiarity and skill in one or more of the following areas:

• Provide observations, insights and thought leadership in the convergence of domain effects supporting operations in contested environments and associated operational variables

• Lead operational planning, target development and operational employment of lethal (kinetic) fires.

• Lead operational planning, target development and operational employment of cyberspace effects.

• Integrate Fires capabilities across all phases of Joint and Combined operations, including cross-CCMD and NATO effects coordination.

• Demonstratable technical expertise in cyber effects integration across all phases of Joint operations.

• Apply systems engineering concepts to analyze, design, and improve operational systems and processes.

• Assess current operational capabilities and processes against future Joint operational needs, identify shortfalls in operational plans/requirements, develop capability requirements, evaluate potential solutions and make recommendations to mitigate risks/shortfalls.
• Advise engineering and experimentation leaders on emerging doctrinal concepts and their impact on scenarios, mission threads, effects chains and systems requirements to allow for rapid assessment & acquisition of advanced technologies, AoAs, DT/OT, and training.
• Provide systems engineering analysis for systems and capabilities in areas such as (but not limited to) planning, integration, mission analysis, requirements analysis, command and control requirements, and dependencies.
• Support the planning and employment of cyber and non-kinetic effects to advance operational objectives.

• Advise on Fires processes, the Joint Warfighting Concept, current and emerging Fires systems, and operational planning processes and tools to enhance mission effectiveness.

• Develop and record Business Processes of battle rhythm events, command post functions, and Theater Air Control System (TACS)/Theater Air Ground System (TAGS) events required to enable theater Joint All Domain Operations (JADO) as prescribed by EUCOM

Strategic Leadership. Working with the Task Leader, Project Leader and Department Leadership to:

• Develop and shape MITRE tasks, in close collaboration with sponsors, to focus on mission critical outcomes.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, develop strong collaborative relationships with senior USAFE-AFAFRICA sponsors, and help sponsors create executable approaches to complex problems in support of their objectives.
• Define task level outcomes aligning sponsor challenges and MITRE competencies ensuring FFRDC appropriate impactful tasks are defined to support critical sponsor outcomes
• Actively collaborate with other MITRE projects and sponsor activities, to ensure maximum value and impact across MITRE’s sponsors.
• Collaborate across the MITRE and government enterprise to shape and accelerate capability delivery to USAFE-AFAFRICA.

Interpersonal skills

• Be a proactive team member and partner closely to support team leadership and staff in task execution
• Present information to both senior military leaders and action officers.
• Identify operational and engineering challenges, potential solutions, and communicate project goals and impacts clearly and effectively.

Collaboration

• Work within a team environment that leverages a robust network of MITRE and other professional connections to engage and collaborate with engineers and planners, subject matter experts, international program (foreign military sales) specialists, and defense acquisition professionals.
• Leverage a pipeline of remote and local MITRE technical expertise, capabilities from the MITRE Platforms, and transitioned IR&D into project delivery when appropriate.
• Partner closely with non-MITRE developers, SETA teammates, and acquisition representatives

Flexibility

• Modify and alter course as the environment and sponsor priorities shift. Understand the power of reach-back and be an effective conduit to bring the talent forward to execute at the right time.

Senior Sponsor Experience

• Comfortably and respectfully engage with both US and foreign nations’ senior military leaders and engineers as well as industry leadership.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically 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 year’s experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Demonstrated experience in US joint military operations
• Requires demonstrated systems engineering experience or equivalent experience, to effectively interface with advanced technology engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to establish trust, influence, and consensus across a range of colleagues and leaders and comfortable interfacing with military and government senior leaders
• Strong knowledge of current and future joint and service fires and cyber doctrine and operations
• Strong persuasive and interpersonal communication skills

• Excellent written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and integrate across diverse teams to achieve larger outcomes than any one organization can achieve on their own

• Must have an active Secret U.S. Goverment issued Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintan a TS/SCI clearance

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain SOFA/TESA (Status of Forces Agreement/Technical Expert Status Accreditation) status in the relevant country of assignment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Networking, or similar field
• Active TS/SCI clearance eligibility
• Multiple military domain (air, land, maritime, space, cyber) experience at the operational and tactical levels
• Experience working with multi-national / coalition partners and coalition systems interoperability
• Experience and familiarity with OSW (OSD) R&E Mission Engineering Guide

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:

$146,400 - $183,000 - $219,600 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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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