Senior Systems Engineer, MBSE & Mission Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Top Secret/SCI clearance support

Job summary

MITRE Corporation in Chantilly, VA seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to define, design, architect, integrate, and transition complex mission systems. You will apply MBSE and traditional systems engineering across the lifecycle, collaborating with sponsors and stakeholders to deliver testable, traceable requirements and robust architectures.

You will engage in stakeholder workshops, trade analyses, and acquisition-related activities, supporting mission success across national security domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related experience, or Master’s with 3+ years, or PhD with relevant experience.
• Experience with MBSE and traditional systems engineering approaches.
• Ability to develop or review architecture products and technical plans.
• Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Experience collaborating with sponsors, program managers, and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Apply systems engineering principles across the system development lifecycle.
• Translate mission needs into system concepts, architectures, and requirements.
• Develop, assess, and refine system architectures with interfaces and data flows.
• Apply MBSE and traditional methods to capture requirements and decisions.
• Conduct stakeholder engagements to elicit and validate requirements.
• Conduct studies and analyses to evaluate current-state systems and gaps.
• Support integration, test, verification, and deployment planning.
• Participate in acquisition planning and evaluation activities.
• Collaborate to develop technical artifacts and briefing materials.
• Support to Intelligence Community.

Skills

Systems engineering

MBSE

Communication skills

Collaboration

Independent work

System design

Architecture modeling

Requirements development

Interface analysis

Verification & validation

Technical documentation

Architecture reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree

PhD

Tools

SysML

Cameo

MagicDraw

Rhapsody

Sparx EA

Job description

MITRE Corporation in Chantilly, VA seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to define, design, architect, integrate, and transition complex mission systems. You will apply MBSE and traditional systems engineering across the lifecycle, collaborating with sponsors and stakeholders to deliver testable, traceable requirements and robust architectures.

You will engage in stakeholder workshops, trade analyses, and acquisition-related activities, supporting mission success across national security domains.