Lead Systems Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop new approaches to modernizing T&E that enable practical approaches to connect T&E activities to acquisition, technical, programmatic, and operational decisions.
• Work closely with key government stakeholders, cross-functional working groups, and partner organizations across OSW and Service Developmental and Operational organizations and industry to develop new policy and guidance, strategies, and frameworks for fast and iterative T&E.
• Work across mission engineering, systems engineering, and T&E disciplines to develop and pilot new tools and methodologies in collaboration with MITRE Technology and Engineering talent.
• Actively engage in new research, tool development, and methodological studies to identify new approaches to agile, iterative, and decision-focused T&E, including early campaigns of learning, continuous evaluation, integrated testing, and data reuse and management.
• Provide objective, technical contributions engaging with senior government leaders and multi-organization working groups (including government, FFRDC/UARC, and industry stakeholders) in the development, revision, and coordination of T&E policy, guidance, and implementation products.
• Co-author policy language, guidebook content, decision-support frameworks, briefing materials, issue papers, and implementation recommendations.
• Collaborate across multi-disciplinary fields, including developmental test, operational test, cyber, digital engineering, artificial intelligence, and modeling and simulation communities.
• Translate emerging T&E best practices, digital engineering concepts, agile acquisition methods, data strategies, and modeling and simulation approaches into continuous evaluation techniques.

Basic Qualifications

• Requires a technical degree in engineering, science, math, cybersecurity or related field and a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience and knowledge of adaptive acquisition frameworks, Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs) or T&E strategy development, developmental or operational test, integrated test, and decision-support planning.
• Familiarity with DoW policy and guidance, including the DoDI 5000.89 and associated specialized topic manuals.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an interdisciplinary team environment, working with government stakeholders, cross-functional teams and working groups, and integrate contributions from a variety of resources (people, tools, organizations).
• Strong critical thinking, analytic, and problem-solving skills – comfortable working in dynamic settings where task objectives may evolve or need to be shaped, or creative solutions to task impediments must be identified.
• Excellent interpersonal and technical communication skills, with the ability to write technical reports, present briefings, and persuasively speak to audiences of all backgrounds, including executives or senior customers.
• Ability to travel to sponsor sites at Pentagon and Mark Center bi-weekly.
• Candidate must possess an active DoD Secret clearance, with the capability to be cleared at the Top Secret//SCI level.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical experience with agile acquisition, software pathway, middle-tier acquisition, digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, modeling and simulation, mission engineering, data strategies, multi-domain operations, or automated test approaches.
• Active TS//SCI.