Senior Systems Engineer: MBSE & Mission Architect (Secret)

Mitre Corporation; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE Corporation is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support government mission needs across complex environments. You will define, design, and integrate systems using MBSE and traditional approaches, translating stakeholder requirements into architectures and technical roadmaps.

You will collaborate with sponsors and multidisciplinary teams to plan verification, validation, deployment, and technical transition activities, ensuring risk is managed and requirements are traceable.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a 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.

Responsibilities

• Apply systems engineering principles throughout the system development lifecycle, including mission and stakeholder analysis, concept development, system design, architecture definition, requirements development, integration, verification, validation, deployment planning, and technical transition
• Translate customer needs, operational constraints, capability gaps, and program objectives into system concepts, functional designs, technical approaches, and implementation options
• Develop, assess, and refine system architectures, including operational views, functional architectures, logical and physical architectures, interfaces, data flows, dependencies, and integration points
• Apply traditional systems engineering and MBSE methods to capture system behavior, structure, requirements, interfaces, constraints, verification relationships, risks, trade space, and technical decisions
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, technical exchanges, and working groups to elicit, analyze, document, and validate mission, system, product, interface, performance, security, and operational requirements
• Develop clear, testable, traceable, and verifiable requirements and maintain relationships among stakeholder needs, system requirements, design elements, interfaces, and verification methods.
• Conduct engineering studies, trade analyses, alternatives analyses, and gap assessments to evaluate current-state systems, operational processes, technology limitations, interoperability challenges, cost and schedule considerations, and opportunities for improvement
• Support system integration, test, verification, validation, deployment, and technical transition activities
• Develop integration sequencing, test objectives, verification methods, success criteria, interface dependencies, readiness criteria, and transition plans
• Identify and manage technical risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and opportunities throughout the engineering lifecycle
• Support technical reviews, including requirements reviews, architecture reviews, design reviews, test readiness reviews, and deployment readiness reviews
• Advise government customers, program managers, and technical leaders on capability needs, technical priorities, system roadmaps, technology insertion opportunities, acquisition strategies, and engineering approaches
• 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, vendor assessments, and source-selection documentation
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including software, hardware, cybersecurity, cloud, data, network, test, operations, and program management personnel
• Develop and present architecture products, technical briefings, decision papers, trade-study results, requirements packages, interface documentation, engineering plans, and technical recommendations
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Systems engineering

MBSE

Architecture modeling

Requirements development

Interface analysis

Integration planning

Verification & validation

Technical documentation

Stakeholder engagement

Security clearance

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

SysML

Cameo

MagicDraw

Rhapsody

Sparx EA

Job description

MITRE Corporation is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support government mission needs across complex environments. You will define, design, and integrate systems using MBSE and traditional approaches, translating stakeholder requirements into architectures and technical roadmaps.

You will collaborate with sponsors and multidisciplinary teams to plan verification, validation, deployment, and technical transition activities, ensuring risk is managed and requirements are traceable.