N156 Chief Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Technical Quality
• Ensure the strength of the Department’s work by shaping its content and bringing a perspective that reflects knowledge of the Department’s domain and technical capability areas.
• Provide technical direction and oversight to the project and other Department efforts.
• Implement the technical quality program across the analytical domain to ensure products and recommendations delivered to MITRE’s sponsors are independent, data-driven, technically sound, and properly reviewed.
• Technical Impact
• Lead key technical areas across the Department and manage the Department’s connections across MNS and MITRE in concert with the Department Manager.
• Represent the Department’s requirements to the MITRE internal research and development community to assist with defining investments to address sponsors’ pressing operational challenges.
• Drive technical contributions to impact mission.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance at the project, task, and individual levels.
• Strategy Development
• Partner in developing, refining, and driving the Department’s contributions to the Center and Division strategies and help ensure our contributions satisfy its goals, objectives, and initiatives.
• Identify new areas where MITRE is either uniquely positioned, or has an opportunity to provide, innovative capabilities to existing and emerging sponsors.
• Identify capability areas of focus for the Department that are aligned to current and future sponsor needs.
• Continuous assessment of the Department’s capabilities to inform hiring activities and investment opportunities.
• Staff Development
• Demonstrate and promote MITRE’s cultural attributes (speed, risk-taking, adaptability, collaboration, grace and respect).
• Mentor and develop staff and promote career path development and succession planning.
• Promote a culture of collaboration across all staff experience levels to improve MITRE’s value to sponsor.
• Partnerships and Initiatives
• Coordinate technical outreach to industry, academia, and other stakeholders, ensuring that best practices and technologies are brought to bear on products/deliverables.
• Collaborate with Chief Engineers across MITRE including MPS, MNS, and MTE to identify opportunities to align efforts and increase impact to sponsors.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience developing strategies to increase the impact of deliverables.
• Strong writing and editing skills including demonstrated ability to articulate complex topics to sponsors and staff.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Detailed understanding of the International Security Environment and how it relates to MITRE’s capabilities.

Annual Work Location Type

Onsite