Senior Mission Engineer - Defense Systems & Analysis

Mitre Corporation

Bedford (MA)

On-site

USD 121,000 - 182,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA is seeking a Senior Mission Engineer to support defense mission engineering, system-of-systems analysis, and decision-support activities for complex operational missions. You will decompose missions, define measures, and translate analytic findings into actionable recommendations for government stakeholders.

The role requires DoD Secret clearance and Top Secret/SCI eligibility, with on-site work at least four days per week.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
Experience with defense, aerospace, intelligence, national security, or mission-critical technical programs.
Experience with analysis and data tools such as Python, MATLAB, R, SQL
Exposure to architecture/modeling tools: iGrafx, CAMEO, Rhapsody, or equivalent
Exposure to modeling languages and frameworks: SysML, BPMN, UAF/UAFML, or related methods
Exposure to simulation and mission analysis tools: Simulink, AFSIM, ITASE, NGTS, STL/Systems Tool Kit, OneSAF, or similar tools
Demonstrated ability to analyze complex missions, operational scenarios, system dependencies, system of systems interactions, or capability gaps.
Experience developing or supporting mission threads, operational scenarios, vignettes, CONOPS, use cases, functional flows, system architectures, interface concepts, requirements, measures and metrics, run matrices, trade studies, or analysis reports.
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 DoD Secret clearance.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret SCI clearance.
U.S Citizen per government eligibility requirements for security clearance.
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Responsibilities

Frame mission engineering problems and investigative questions: Define the mission problem, analysis purpose, decision context, assumptions, constraints, and investigative questions that guide the mission engineering effort.
Engage stakeholders and subject matter experts: Coordinate with operators, government customers, engineers, modelers, intelligence analysts, test teams, and program leadership to validate mission context, assumptions, data sources, and analytic findings.
Characterize missions, scenarios, and operational environments: Develop mission context descriptions, CONOPS, scenarios, vignettes, threat representations, environmental conditions, operational timelines, and relevant mission constraints.
Develop mission measures and analytic metrics: Define and apply Measures of Success, Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, key mission indicators, and supporting metrics to evaluate mission outcomes and system contributions.
Create and assess mission architectures: Develop operational, functional, logical, and system of systems architecture products that capture mission activities, actors, systems, interfaces, dependencies, information flows, and operational relationships.
Analyze baseline and alternative mission approaches: Compare current-state mission execution against alternative architectures, concepts, capabilities, technologies, or operational approaches to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
Conduct mission analysis using modeling and simulation capabilities: Develop run matrices, excursions, sensitivity cases, experiment objectives, data collection plans, and analysis methods to evaluate system of systems performance in mission context.
Evaluate results and assess mission impacts: Analyze quantitative and qualitative results, validate findings with stakeholders and SMEs, assess uncertainty and confidence, and determine how systems, capabilities, or changes affect mission success.
Deliver decision-ready recommendations and reusable mission engineering artifacts: Produce briefings, reports, visualizations, models, datasets, assumptions, findings, recommended mission architectures, and curated digital artifacts that support acquisition, prototyping, experimentation, and capability decisions.