Nuclear Enterprise Mission Division Chief Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Nuclear Enterprise Mission Division Chief Engineer with Security Clearance
At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We're a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation's health, security, and prosperity.

Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future. The Nuclear Enterprise Mission Division (NEMD) is seeking a Chief Engineer to join our team. NEMD, in collaboration with MITRE's divisions supporting Navy, OSW, Joint Staff, and Combatant Commands, leads a dynamic work program focused on accelerating the evolution of the United States' nuclear deterrent capabilities.

NEMD is collaborative and team focused, willing to take risks to deliver innovative technical work that impacts our sponsors and the enterprise  NEMD work program provides threat-informed, data-driven modernization recommendations, prototypes, and analyses that accelerate the fielding of warfighter capabilities and allows for the cost-effective and rapid modernization of Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3), Weapon Systems, and NC2 Platforms and Mission Systems.

NEMD's work program is centered in Bedford, MA with teams in McLean, VA;
Colorado Springs, CO;
Omaha, NE;
Hill AFB, Utah;
Eglin AFB, Florida, San Diego, CA, and other locations. The Chief Engineer (CE) is a strategic partner to the Division Director (DD) and works collaboratively with other leaders across MITRE National Security (MNS) and MITRE Technology & Engineering (MTE) to shape NEMD's strategy, ensure the rigor of the work program, collaborate on integrated capability development, and ensure the development of our team to create a strong pipeline of talent for the work program.

The scope of the assignment spans across the entire Nuclear Enterprise work program at MITRE, including execution of our NEMD strategy and collaboration across ~30 work programs as well as with external partners including sponsors, industry, and academia. NEMD sponsor organizations include but are not limited to USSTRATCOM, NC3 Enterprise Center (NEC), Joint Staff, OUSW(A&S), OUSW(R&E), Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center (AFNWC), Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), and PMA-271.

Roles & Responsibilities :
Strategy Development
* Lead NEMD program development and special initiative (PDSI) investment decisions in collaboration with the Division Director and division leaders to achieve the objectives of Division/Center/MNS/MITRE strategies

* Drive innovative and disruptive solutions through the generation of a strong demand signal centered on identifying and sharing mission challenges with partners across MITRE, shaping proposals for MITRE Innovation Program (MIP), DAF Firefly, and NSEC IR. Ensure transitions of high impact research results to NEMD sponsors. Foster a culture of innovation within the division.

* Drive development of technical and program capabilities, including identifying new areas to develop and areas to shape out of, and help determine NEMD's technical and program strengths and weaknesses. Includes strategic planning around the technical and program strategy such as guiding investments or input into labs, platforms, and infrastructure across MITRE.

* Develop and manage a division lab strategy, which includes investments in new capabilities and the sustainment of lab resources. Technical Quality and Execution
* Create, implement, and execute a division-wide technical quality and learning culture that continually strengthens technical quality in partnership with other counterparts across MITRE including partner MNS divisions.

* Drive technical quality and lead the development of…