Principal Space Engineer

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Launched in 2025, Space Enterprise Mission Division (SEMD) was established to deliver economies in scope and scale across the MNS sponsor aligned space war fighting enterprise. SEMD supports critical organizations from headquarters through operational commands and acquisition centers including HQ USSPACECOM, Combat Forces Command, Space Forces PACIFIC, Space Training and Readiness Command, HQ USSF, Space Systems Command, SF/S9 Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) and Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP), and other space related agencies and offices.

We deliver impactful technical capabilities with a focus on space warfighter integration, C2 integration, and space futures, partnering across the government and industry space enterprise to bring capabilities to bear to achieve Joint mission objectives, deliver joint space combat power, and enable superiority in all domains.

The Space Warfighting Integration Department brings the space enterprise to bear on the all-domain fight by aligning mission needs, technical capabilities, and sponsor priorities across the national security space enterprise. We provide mission integration, mission engineering, architecture performance and resilience analysis, and advanced modeling, simulation, and operational analysis to inform recommendations and strengthen decision-making. Our work helps the mission partners, operational users, and acquirers close kill chains, strengthen operational readiness, and connect operational needs to future force design, integrated test and evaluation, training, and the operationally relevant infrastructure needed to field combat-credible capabilities.

We address mission-critical challenges across space operations, command and control integration, and future force design.

Roles & Responsibilities :

The Space Operations Program Coordinator is responsible for providing technical solutions to advance mission outcomes for U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM), U.S. Space Forces-PACOM (SFP), Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM), Space Systems Command (SSC) Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI), USSF Combat Forces Command (CFC), and other space agencies and offices. The Program Coordinator aligns sponsor priorities, warfighter needs, and MITRE capabilities across the space operations portfolio to improve mission outcomes and broaden MITRE’s impact in space war fighting.

Responsibilities Develop Space Operations Program short and long-term unified strategies, aligning across operational projects and programs, to support achieving the Division Strategy.

Develop Space Operations Program motivation and enterprise level Outcomes to deliver impact across sponsors. Translate enterprise-level sponsor outcomes into individual, synchronized project technical objectives.

Promote integrated solutions that improve readiness, tactics development, C2, operational acceptance, and the…