Lead Systems Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Lead Systems 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. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is advancing how Special Operations Forces (SOF) integrate with the Joint Force and employ emerging capabilities to maintain decision advantage in complex and contested environments.

The MITRE Special Operations and Joint Staff Department (N552) is partnering with USSOCOM to support this modernization through mission engineering, systems engineering, modeling and simulation, experimentation, and technical integration. Working across government, industry, academia, and the Joint Force, we help translate operational needs into modernization priorities, integrated technical solutions, and informed capability decisions. We are seeking a strategic-minded, technically accomplished, and operationally focused Lead Mission Engineer to help shape and deliver MITRE's support to USSOCOM modernization efforts through Joint Task Force Modernization (JTF MOD).

This individual will operate at the intersection of mission engineering, operational experimentation, modeling and simulation, systems integration, and modernization strategy. In this role, you will bring both strategic perspective and hands-on technical expertise - framing complex mission and engineering problems, developing and executing approaches to address them, and connecting emerging capabilities, architectures, and operational concepts to mission outcomes and modernization decisions.

The successful candidate will work closely with senior Government stakeholders, operators, engineers, analysts, acquisition organizations, and Joint and theater partners to frame mission challenges, develop mission and mission-engineering threads, shape experimentation and exercise objectives, and translate technical and operational findings into actionable modernization recommendations. The N552 Department operates as a globally integrated team supporting USSOCOM Headquarters, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Service Component Special Operations Commands (SOCs), and Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOCs).

Our engineers work side-by-side with operators and mission partners to identify emerging challenges, evaluate operational and technical alternatives, and inform investments, architectures, and capability decisions that improve SOF effectiveness within the broader Joint Force.

Roles and Responsibilities:

You will serve as a mission and systems engineering technical integration leader supporting JTF MOD modernization, experimentation, modeling and simulation, and exercise activities. Working directly with JTF MOD and USSOCOM stakeholders, you will help frame strategic and operational challenges, identify the critical mission and engineering questions that must be answered, and shape and execute analytical, modeling, and experimental approaches to inform modernization priorities and decisions.

You will lead the development and analysis of mission and mission-engineering threads that connect operational objectives, capabilities, architectures, systems, and mission effects. You will help shape modeling, simulation, experimentation, and exercise activities - including faster-than-real-time and Joint Live, Virtual, and Constructive (JLVC) environments - to ensure SOF requirements, capabilities, constraints, and dependencies are appropriately represented within broader Joint and…