Senior Systems Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Systems Engineer with Security Clearance
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. The Systems and Operations Department (L626) within MITRE's Systems Engineering Division in the Center for Engineering and Analysis delivers innovative, mission-focused solutions using a multidisciplinary systems engineering approach to address sponsor challenges critical to national security missions.

We advance engineering rigor, operational relevance, and mission effectiveness across complex systems and enterprises, with core focus areas in Mission Integration, Lifecycle Systems Engineering, and Acquisition Systems Engineering. Our teams develop, assess, and transition engineering solutions, provide strategic technical vision, and deliver data-informed recommendations that enable sponsor mission success from tactical through enterprise levels.

Roles & Responsibilities :
The Systems and Operations Department is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support government customer mission and program needs across complex, evolving technical environments. The selected candidate will help define, design, architect, integrate, test, and transition complex systems using traditional systems engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering methods. This position requires the ability to collaborate across technical, operational, acquisition, and program management organizations.

The Systems Engineer will translate stakeholder needs into executable system concepts, architectures, requirements, technical roadmaps, integration plans, acquisition artifacts, and engineering recommendations.
* Apply systems engineering principles throughout the system development lifecycle, including mission and stakeholder analysis, concept development, system design, architecture definition, requirements development, integration, verification, validation, deployment planning, and technical transition

* Translate customer needs, operational constraints, capability gaps, and program objectives into system concepts, functional designs, technical approaches, and implementation options

* Develop, assess, and refine system architectures, including operational views, functional architectures, logical and physical architectures, interfaces, data flows, dependencies, and integration points

* Apply traditional systems engineering and MBSE methods to capture system behavior, structure, requirements, interfaces, constraints, verification relationships, risks, trade space, and technical decisions

* Facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, technical exchanges, and working groups to elicit, analyze, document, and validate mission, system, product, interface, performance, security, and operational requirements

* Develop clear, testable, traceable, and verifiable requirements and maintain relationships among stakeholder needs, system requirements, design elements, interfaces, and verification methods.

* Conduct engineering studies, trade analyses, alternatives analyses, and gap assessments to evaluate current-state systems, operational processes, technology limitations, interoperability challenges, cost and schedule considerations, and opportunities for improvement

* Support system integration, test, verification, validation, deployment, and technical transition activities

* Develop integration sequencing, test objectives, verification methods, success criteria, interface dependencies, readiness criteria, and transition plans

* Identify and manage technical risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and opportunities throughout the engineering lifecycle

* Support technical reviews, including requirements reviews, architecture reviews, design reviews, test readiness reviews, and deployment readiness reviews

* Advise government customers, program managers, and technical leaders on capability needs, technical priorities, system roadmaps, technology insertion opportunities, acquisition strategies, and engineering approaches

* Support acquisition planning and execution by contributing to Statements of Work, Statements of Objectives, Performance Work Statements, market research, acquisition strategies, evaluation criteria, technical evaluation plans, vendor assessments, and source-selection documentation

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