Systems Engineer, Lead
About the role
MITRE Technology and Engineering (MTE) System Engineering Technical Division is seeking a Lead Integration and Interoperability Systems Engineer with specialization in Ground System Integration. This individual will deliver high-value, high-impact outcomes within a diverse and growing program supporting an evolving strategic space enterprise mission area. The successful candidate will lead and collaborate with technical subject matter experts (SMEs) across a portfolio of projects, as well as other FFRDCs, UARCs, government stakeholders, vendors, and prime contractors, to perform technical program office tasks, analyses, studies, and recommendations that inform current and future space-based capabilities.
This position focuses on the integration of space system ground segment capabilities within the Missile Defense domain, including systems engineering, interface development, integration and test planning, software integration, communications subsystem integration, data management, and operational support across pre-launch and post-launch phases. The role requires deep technical expertise in ground segment development and integration, including coordination across space, ground, network, cloud, and operations center elements to enable resilient, interoperable, and mission-effective capabilities.
Highly competitive candidates must bring a strong technical background and depth of domain knowledge to advance the department’s strategic growth in next-generation missile defense in one or more of the following ways:
- Drive innovation in next-generation defense space enterprise architecture
- Advance space systems integration within future Missile Defense Architectures
- Lead technical efforts to ensure space-based assets and associated ground segments are integrated into broader defense systems frameworks, enabling interoperability across sensors, interceptors, and Command/Control elements
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines
- Experience collaborating with technical interagency government, contractor, and vendor teams in the development, demonstration, and deployment of complex system-of-systems architectures
- Experience with ground segment engineering and delivery, ensuring resilient and reliable ground segment operations and space-to-ground communications
- Experience leading the development of Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Data Management Plans, and related data architectures to enable effective system integration and interoperability
- Experience with pre-launch integration campaigns for space-to-ground (S2G) and space-to-space (S2S) communication subsystems
- Experience integrating communication subsystem(s) with ground-based networks, mission processing environments, and space operations centers
- Experience developing and integrating cloud-based architectures and solutions
- Experience developing and integrating Space System Ground Segments, including core software services with mission-unique software components and external system interfaces
- Experience with post-launch S2S and S2G communication anomaly identification, root cause analysis, and remediation
- Ability to identify and perform technical tasks involving studies, assessments, technical evaluations, and recommendations to inform programmatic and acquisition decisions with data-driven analysis
- Ability to clearly communicate and collaborate to influence design and facilitate implementation of ground segment integration and interoperability with C2BMC and other external systems
- Experience leading the growth and development of new project opportunities that expand the technical work portfolio
- Ability to work closely across sponsor directorates, leveraging knowledge and resources, ensuring consistency of effort, and fostering teamwork and innovation among the sponsor, SETA staff, FFRDCs/UARCs, other government agencies, vendors, and prime contractor(s)
- Ability to communicate complex technical and operational findings clearly through briefings, white papers, visualizations, technical reports, and stakeholder discussions
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams that may include operators, engineers, software developers, modelers, data scientists, test personnel, subject matter experts, and government customers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Active Top Secret U.S. Government-issued Security Clearance and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance (U.S. citizenship required)
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree and 6+ years of experience in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines
- Experience leading technical interagency government, contractor, and vendor teams in the development, demonstration, and deployment of advanced space-based technologies and associated ground segments, including technical planning, execution, and presenting results to government sponsors
- Advanced knowledge of Space System Ground Segment integration strategy development, integration and test planning, architecture maturation, and software development efforts
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI
Pay
Salary compensation range and midpoint: $146,400 – $183,000 – $219,600 annual.
Schedule
Work Location Type: Onsite