Chief Engineer, Signals and Electronics

Division Chief Engineer

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MITRE Technology and Engineering's (MTE) Signals and Electronics Division rapidly designs, builds, and transitions innovative cross-domain solutions and prototypes that integrate sensing, spectrum, and embedded technologies to deliver secure, high-performance mission capabilities. The division is known for strategic perspective, workforce development, and collaborative leadership.

The Signals & Electronics Division is seeking a senior technical leader with exceptional technical judgment to serve as Division Chief Engineer. The Division Chief Engineer is the division's senior technical leader, responsible for shaping technical direction, assuring technical quality and rigor, and advancing the health, relevance, and application of the technical Capabilities resident in the Signals & Electronics Division.

Key technical areas include embedded security, trusted hardware, reverse engineering, signal processing, estimation, waveform and signal analysis, electronic warfare, radar systems analysis, RF and optical sensors, antenna design, advanced manufacturing, mechanical design, reliability, underwater acoustics, underwater communications, and underwater sensors.

The Division Chief Engineer will partner with MITRE Public Sector (MPS) and MITRE National Security Sector (MNS), and MTE Directors, Chief Engineers, Project Leaders, Capability Stewards, and other key stakeholders to connect sponsor and mission demand with differentiated division and MITRE Capabilities across the FFRDCs. In coordination with MPS and MNS leadership, the Division Chief Engineer (CE) will help shape work and sponsor engagement, connecting emerging mission challenges with the division's technical capabilities and expertise.

The CE will establish strong feedback loops with MNS and MPS so that sponsor demand, emerging mission needs, lessons from direct work, and identified capability gaps inform division technical strategy, workforce development, research priorities, and investment recommendations.

The CE is also expected to provide individual technical contributions directly to sponsors, with a focus on technical leadership and measurable mission impact. The CE will remain technically engaged in consequential sponsor work through direct technical leadership, independent technical judgment, work shaping, technical reviews, or substantive technical contributions sufficient to remain grounded in current mission needs and technical practice.

The Division CE will be accountable for the technical quality, relevance, and evolution of the technical work, capabilities, and Capability components resident in or managed by the division. These include corporate core Capabilities homed within Signals & Electronics, capabilities maintained within the division and its departments, physical and virtual laboratory infrastructure, and shared technical frameworks, methods, tools, reusable assets, reference architectures, and approaches.

For Capabilities for which Signals & Electronics serves as a Responsible or Accountable Division, the CE will partner with the designated Capability Steward and core stewardship team to translate Capability roadmaps, health assessments, mission-demand signals, and investment priorities into division technical strategy and execution. The CE will contribute…