Modeling and Simulation Engineer

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MITRE's Immersive Experimentation Department (L645) builds extensible, scalable, and distributed simulation capabilities used primarily for immersive experimentation and rapid prototyping to address our sponsors' mission challenges. We provide world class engineering workforce that focuses on simulation, experimentation, and wargaming, to advance the technical capabilities within MITRE needed to address our mission needs. The work programs leverage a diverse set of technical disciplines from within the department and across the corporation to maximize our impact in solving some of our sponsors' toughest modernization challenges in the areas of systems engineering, agile software development, test and evaluation, digital engineering, autonomous systems, and training.

Job Description:

The Immersive Experimentation Department in conjunction with the Army Soldier and Weapons Systems Department is seeking a technical oriented, system engineer to supporting the modernization for Modeling and Simulation capabilities around Wargaming, Combat Effects, and Campaign Analysis for CPE ST3, DEVCOM Soldier Center, and other government organizations. Successful candidates will work closely with senior government civilian and military leaders to define and execute MITRE's work.

The candidate must work within a multiple disciplinary development team and work with industry to integrate capabilities, both software and hardware into the platform.

Roles and Responsibilities:

* Leverage a technical understanding of System Engineering, Modeling, Simulation, and Live Virtual, Constructive (LVC) training to develop, integration, assess, and analyze a modern training capability.

* Work within multiple disciplinary development team:

* Deliver strategy and recommendations to deliver optimal Technical Performance through the application of software engineering principles and best practices

* Recognize technical challenges and lead engineering activities to deliver appropriate solutions

* Identify and articulate program risks and associated opportunities

* Establish goals and communicate clear expectations and guidance that contribute to highest priority sponsor outcomes

* Establishing strong relationships within the sponsor organization.

* Defining opportunities to collaborate with organizations outside of the sponsor to create a greater mission outcome.

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 and 3 years of experience

* Active Secret Clearance

* Technical background in disciplines of relevance in one or more of the following: requirements development, engineering, and analysis; system decomposition and design; analysis planning and performance; test/verification planning and performance, system integration.

* Knowledge of related mission domains (LVC training, Modeling and Simulation, Multi-Domain Integration and Operations)

* Knowledge of game engines such as Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot Engine, etc.

* Technical background in disciplines of relevance in one or more of the…