Systems Engineering Methods & Innovation Capability Chief Engineer

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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:

• Mission, Enterprise, and Domain Engineering

• Systems Engineering, Architecting, and Lifecycle Integration

• Digital Engineering, Prototyping, and Modernization

• Architecture, Interfaces, and Open Systems

• Performance Analysis, Test, and Evaluation

• AI-Enabled Systems Engineering

The 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.

The 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.

The 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.

In 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.

The 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…