Mission-Driven Senior Systems Engineer

MITRE; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE seeks a seasoned Systems Engineer in the Northern Virginia area to advance mission-focused engineering across lifecycle stages, including design, analysis, and deployment planning. The role requires Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph clearance and willingness to work onsite five days a week.

You will translate sponsor needs into architecture concepts, perform trade studies, and collaborate with diverse teams to deliver traceable requirements and technical recommendations for sponsor review.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• Experience applying systems engineering practices to complex technical, operational, or mission-focused systems
• Experience with system design, system architecture modeling, requirements development, interface analysis, integration planning, verification and validation, and technical documentation
• Familiarity with MBSE and traditional systems engineering approaches, including requirements analysis, functional decomposition, interface control, trade studies, risk analysis, technical reviews, and engineering decision support
• Ability to develop or review architecture products, requirements specifications, trade studies, technical plans, acquisition artifacts, and engineering recommendations
• Ability to collaborate with government sponsors, program managers, technical teams, acquisition stakeholders, and mission users
• Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to define ambiguous problems, structure technical options, and brief technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently in a dynamic sponsor environment
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

Responsibilities

• Apply systems engineering principles across the system development lifecycle, including mission analysis, concept development, system design, architecture definition, requirements development, integration, verification, validation, deployment planning, and technical transition
• Support system design and architecture activities by translating sponsor mission needs, operational constraints, and capability gaps into system concepts, functional designs, technical approaches, and implementation options
• Develop, assess, and refine system architectures for complex mission systems, including operational views, functional architectures, logical and physical architectures, interfaces, data flows, dependencies, and integration points
• Apply TSE and MBSE methods to capture system behavior, structure, requirements, interfaces, constraints, verification relationships, trade space, risks, and technical decisions
• Conduct stakeholder engagements, workshops, interviews, and technical working groups to elicit, analyze, document, and validate clear, testable, and traceable mission, system, product, interface, performance, security, and operational requirements
• Conduct engineering studies, trade analyses, and gap assessments to evaluate current-state systems, operational processes, technology limitations, interoperability challenges, and opportunities to improve mission outcomes
• Support integration, test, verification, validation, deployment planning, and technical transition activities for complex systems, including integration sequencing, test objectives, success criteria, interface dependencies, and deployment readiness considerations
• Participate in alternative analysis for government sponsors and program managers on mission context, capability needs, technical priorities, system roadmaps, technology insertion opportunities, acquisition strategies, and engineering approaches that support program objectives
• Support acquisition planning and execution by contributing to Statements of Work, Statements of Objectives, Performance Work Statements, market research, acquisition strategies, evaluation criteria, technical evaluation plans, source selection documentation, and vendor assessments
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop and present technical artifacts, architecture briefings, decision papers, trade study results, requirements packages, interface documentation, and engineering recommendations for sponsor and leadership review
• Support to Intelligence Community

Skills

Systems engineering

MBSE

Requirements analysis

Architecture modeling

Stakeholder engagement

Acquisition planning

Technical documentation

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SysML

Cameo

MagicDraw

Rhapsody

Sparx EA

Job description

MITRE seeks a seasoned Systems Engineer in the Northern Virginia area to advance mission-focused engineering across lifecycle stages, including design, analysis, and deployment planning. The role requires Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph clearance and willingness to work onsite five days a week.

You will translate sponsor needs into architecture concepts, perform trade studies, and collaborate with diverse teams to deliver traceable requirements and technical recommendations for sponsor review.