Associate Systems Engineer

MITRE Corporation; Hampton (VA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work location

Job summary

MITRE Corporation in the Hampton, Virginia area seeks an entry-level Systems Engineer to generate, decompose, and review system requirements and model them using digital engineering tools. You will support development, analysis, and testing while contributing to architecture design and technical analyses.

The role requires a DoD SECRET clearance eligibility, collaboration across MITRE teams, and a commitment to continuous learning and engineering excellence in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, CS, Mathematics, or similar field with less than 1 year of related experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD SECRET security clearance.
• Understanding of principles of systems engineering or ability to learn, and approaches for evidence-driven decision making.
• Apply knowledge and principles of engineering analysis or data science to support recommendations to address customer challenges.
• Committed to continuous learning, innovation and engineering excellence.
• Strong collaboration and communications skills

Responsibilities

• Generating, decomposing, and reviewing system requirements.
• Modeling system requirements, behaviors and interfaces through Digital Engineering processes and tools.
• Supporting systems development, analysis, and testing.
• Developing and evaluating system designs and architectures.
• Developing technical solutions and communicating these solutions in support of MITRE’s defense sponsors.
• Developing technical papers and presentations that communicate architecture designs, analyses, and recommendations.
• Collaborating with other engineers across MITRE’s organizations to coordinate development efforts and ensure product quality.

Skills

Systems engineering

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering/CS/Math

Tools

Cameo

Rhapsody

IBM DOORS

MSoSA

Job description

The selected individual will be responsible for:

• Generating, decomposing, and reviewing system requirements.
• Modeling system requirements, behaviors and interfaces through Digital Engineering processes and tools.
• Supporting systems development, analysis, and testing.
• Developing and evaluating system designs and architectures.
• Developing technical solutions and communicating these solutions in support of MITRE’s defense sponsors.
• Developing technical papers and presentations that can communicate such activities as architecture designs, Analysis of Alternatives, informational presentations, and technical analysis.
• Collaborating with other engineers across MITRE’s organizations in order to coordinate development efforts, bring the expertise of others to bear on projects, and to ensure common standards of product quality.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar field with less than 1 year of related experience
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) SECRET security clearance.
• Understanding of principles of systems engineering (or ability to learn) and approaches for evidence-driven decision making.
• Apply knowledge and principles of engineering analysis or data science disciplines to support recommendations to address customer challenges.
• Committed to continuous learning, innovation and engineering excellence.
• Strong collaboration and communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active DoD SECRET Security Clearance.
• At least one year of industry experience with exposure to range of systems engineering lifecycle activities (requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, sustainment).
• Academic or industry experience with Digital engineering modeling tools such as Cameo, MSoSA or Rhapsody.
• Requirements management tools such as IBM rational DOORS.
• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar field with less than 1 year of related experience

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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