Mission Systems Engineer, Intermediate

Intermediate Mission Engineer

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MITRE Technology and Engineering (MTE) System Engineering Technical Division is seeking an Intermediate Mission Engineer to support defense mission engineering, system of systems analysis, experimentation, and decision-support activities for complex operational missions. The candidate will help decompose missions into mission elements, characterize operational scenarios and vignettes, develop mission threads, define mission measures and metrics, analyze baseline and alternative mission approaches, and translate analytic findings into actionable recommendations for government and program stakeholders.

MITRE is seeking an experienced, assertive, highly entrepreneurial, and collaborative Intermediate Systems Engineer to execute our Architectures and Systems Engineering (ASE) Mission Engineering and Analysis Task with the Fighters & Advanced Aircraft Directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. This position offers challenging opportunities to apply integration, innovation, and analysis skills to directly address some of the Air Force's highest priority challenges such as the Next-Generation Air Dominance Family of Systems.

This position is on-site at Wright-Patterson AFB and may require temporary duty travel to support critical sponsor objectives.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Frame mission engineering problems and investigative questions:
  Define the mission problem, analysis purpose, decision context, assumptions, constraints, and investigative questions that guide the mission engineering effort.
• Characterize missions, CONOPS, scenarios, threats, environmental conditions, timelines, stakeholders, and constraints to establish a common understanding of the operational problem.
• Develop Measures of Success, Effectiveness, and Performance, along with key mission indicators, to connect system capabilities and technical performance to measurable mission outcomes.
• Create operational, functional, logical, and system-of-systems architecture products that describe mission activities, actors, systems, interfaces, dependencies, information exchanges, and operational relationships.
• Compare current mission execution with alternative concepts, technologies, capabilities, and architectures, using modeling, simulation, sensitivity analysis, and experimentation to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Evaluate quantitative and qualitative results with stakeholders and subject-matter experts, assess uncertainty, and produce recommended architectures, reports, models, visualizations, datasets, and reusable digital artifacts that support acquisition and capability decisions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, national security, or other mission-critical technical programs.
• Experience with analysis and data tools such as but not limited to Python, MATLAB, R, SQL
• Exposure to architecture/modeling tools: iGrafx, CAMEO, Rhapsody, or equivalent
• Exposure to modeling languages and frameworks:
  SysML, BPMN, UAF/UAFML, or related methods
• Exposure to simulation and mission analysis tools:
  Simulink, AFSIM, ITASE, NGTS, STL/Systems Tool Kit, OneSAF, or similar tools
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex missions, operational scenarios, system dependencies, system of systems interactions, or capability gaps
• Exposure developing or supporting the following: mission threads, operational scenarios, vignettes, CONOPS, use cases, functional flows, system architectures, interface concepts, requirements, measures and metrics, run matrices, trade studies, or analysis reports.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and operational findings clearly through briefings, white papers, visualizations, technical reports, and stakeholder discussions.
• Ability to work with…