Senior Systems Engineer, Digital Engineering & Security

The MITRE Corporation; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE Corporation in Chantilly, Virginia, seeks a Systems Engineer to support sponsor missions within a digital engineering environment, applying systems engineering rigor to define, manage, and verify requirements across architecture, implementation, testing, and security controls.

Collaborate with sponsors and cross-functional teams to ensure delivered capabilities meet mission and security needs; maintain artifacts such as CONOPS, architecture products, interface control documents, and

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years with a Master’s degree; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience applying systems engineering principles to software-intensive, cloud-hosted, or enterprise systems.
• Experience eliciting, documenting, decomposing, prioritizing, and managing stakeholder requirements.
• Experience developing and maintaining systems engineering artifacts such as CONOPS, architecture products, interface control documents, verification plans, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability artifacts.
• Experience conducting capability and gap analyses between existing systems and target operational environments.
• Familiarity with configuration management, technical baseline management, and change-control processes.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to facilitate discussions across technical and operational stakeholders.
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI/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 requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Responsibilities

• Define, document, decompose, prioritize, and manage sponsor-specific requirements for the digital engineering environment.
• Maintain requirements traceability from mission needs through system architecture, implementation, verification, security controls, and operational acceptance.
• Develop and maintain key systems engineering artifacts, including CONOPS, architecture products, interface control documents, verification plans, acceptance criteria, and traceability products.
• Conduct capability, gap, and dependency analyses between current capabilities and sponsor-specific target environments.
• Collaborate with sponsors, architects, developers, cybersecurity personnel, and operational stakeholders to ensure delivered capabilities meet mission, technical, security, and sustainment needs.
• Support technical baseline management, configuration management, and change-control activities across the system lifecycle.
• Contribute to systems engineering assessments, technical planning, and integration activities that improve sponsor decision-making and operational outcomes.
• Communicate technical issues, risks, dependencies, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Job description

MITRE Corporation in Chantilly, Virginia, seeks a Systems Engineer to support sponsor missions within a digital engineering environment, applying systems engineering rigor to define, manage, and verify requirements across architecture, implementation, testing, and security controls.

Collaborate with sponsors and cross-functional teams to ensure delivered capabilities meet mission and security needs; maintain artifacts such as CONOPS, architecture products, interface control documents, and