Lead Communications Engineer, Tactical Data Networks

Job Responsibilities:

• You will serve as a thought leader in advanced tactical data link messaging and cross-platform messaging concepts engaging with sponsors and within MITRE to analyze operational requirements, address communications challenges, and apply sound technology solutions to benefit sponsor mission outcomes.
• You will apply systems engineering, data science, and data modeling techniques to shape the development of a data centric language and a message schema along with message transformations necessary to enable joint all domain command and control (JADC2) interoperability across disparate platforms/sensors, multiple message domains, and operating environments.
• You will guide the above-described DoD development efforts and provide verification and validation methods for establishing the prototype interoperability solution.
• You will lead and actively collaborate across MITRE and DoD sponsor Working Groups and stakeholders with a diverse team to participate in technical exchange engagements to share knowledge and research and elicit feedback from a diverse set of subject matter experts.
• You will serve as a subject matter expert on government and industry best practices to create timely and actionable recommendations and create optimal interoperability solutions.

• You have familiarity with systems engineering across the development lifecycle from concept inception through requirements definition, system development, integration, and verification.
• You have experience with data modeling and schema development.
• You are familiar with DoD messaging standards such as Link 16, protocols, gateways, message forwarding, and battle management command and control (BMC2) tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• You have strong interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate across multiple organizations and engineering disciplines.
• Familiarity with data science principles.
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, computer engineering, mathematics, or similar field; or 6 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience.
• You must have the ability to document results through technical and non-technical briefings, memos, and formal reports.
• You must have the ability to communicate complex concepts to different audiences; from high-level descriptions to detailed explanations is also required.
• You must be a U.S. citizen with a DoD Secret and the ability to acquire and maintain a Top-Secret clearance.

• You possess an in depth understanding of Joint communications concepts and technologies, as well as familiarity with:
• supporting networking, enterprise applications, and IT architectures.
• one or more DoD messaging standards such as link 16, VMF, UCI, MADL, IFDL, CMF, etc.
• One of more DoD open Standards such as OMS, etc.
• You are familiar with relevant commercial message standards and its application to DoD systems /standards such as ITU-T Rec.
  
  X.667, IETF RFCs, NIEM ISO/IEC 10646, IEEE 754, ANSI, etc.
• You are familiar with tactical data networking and data forwarding, network routing and transport protocols, distributed computing, and/or topology management.
• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a similar field with 10+ years of related experience.
• You have software development experience with one or more software development tools/environments (MATLAB, Java, JavaScript, Scala, Git, XML, JSON, or XSLT).
• Must possess an active Top-Secret clearance.

Onsite

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