System Engineer, CPE Ground Combat Platforms

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The Army Soldier and Weapon Systems Department (N214) mission is to provide world class engineering workforce for combat, testing, and training capabilities to provide the U.S. Army an asymmetric advantage. Key sponsors of the Department work program include CPE Simulation, Training, Test, & Threat (Orlando, FL), CPE Ground - Soldier Systems (Fort Belvoir, VA), CPE Ground - Combat Platforms and DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (Ann Arbor, MI), DEVCOM Soldier System Center (Natick, MA), PAE Fires and CPE Aviation (Huntsville, AL), Army Test and Evaluation Command (Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD) and CPE Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (Edgewood, MD).

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 the Army's toughest modernization challenges in the areas of systems engineering, agile software development, test and evaluation, digital engineering, autonomous systems, and training.

Job Description:

The Army Soldier and Weapons Systems Department is seeking a technical oriented, system engineer to supporting the digital engineering and software development for CPE Ground - Combat Platforms 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 Digital Engineering (DE), Model Based System Engineering (MBSE), and/or Mission Engineering (ME) to support integration for hardware and software into Combat Platforms for CPE Ground.

* 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 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

* Technical background in disciplines of relevance in one or more of the following:
Digital Engineering (DE), Model Based System Engineering (MBSE), and/or Mission Engineering (ME).

* Knowledge of diagramming & modeling knowledge with tools such as Magic Draw/Cameo and/or Visio

* Knowledge of system architecture and system of system architecture such as networks, servers, and applications

* Demonstrated ability and desire to quickly learn and apply new technologies.

* Experience and proven results utilizing systems engineering and modern software best practices.

* Ability to identify gaps and shortfalls in operational performance and propose effective mitigations.

* Demonstrated experience with software development efforts and yielding impactful results at high levels of government and/or industry.

* Proven experience engaging sponsors with successful impacts and outcomes, and establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships

* Established track record in leading the delivery of data-driven technical products with the military war fighting domain, resulting in positive mission impact.

* Demonstrated ability to take risks and lead work with partial insights, and operate effectively autonomously

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