Senior Systems Engineer, Mission & Architecture Lead

MITRE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE’s Systems and Operations Department in the Center for Engineering and Analysis seeks a senior systems engineer to apply MBSE and systems engineering across the lifecycle for mission-focused national security programs.

You will translate sponsor needs into architectures, lead multidisciplinary teams, and conduct stakeholder workshops, guiding verification, validation, and deployment readiness with government sponsors and a Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; 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
• Experience with MBSE and traditional systems engineering approaches, including requirements analysis, functional decomposition, interface control, trade studies, risk analysis, and engineering decision support
• Ability to develop or review architecture products, requirements specifications, trade studies, technical plans, acquisition artifacts, and engineering recommendations
• Experience leading technical tasks, facilitating stakeholder workshops, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams, or advising senior technical and program leadership
• Ability to directly 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
• Willingness to work at various sponsor locations in the Northern Virginia area as needed
• 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
• Lead or 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
• Lead and facilitate 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
• Perform engineering studies, trade analyses, and gap assessments to evaluate current-state systems, operational processes, technology limitations, interoperability challenges, and opportunities to improve mission outcomes
• Steer 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
• Perform 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
• Guide 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
• Direct 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
• Serve as a mentor to junior staff by providing guidance, feedback, and knowledge-sharing to support their professional growth and strengthen team capabilities
• Support to Intelligence Community

Skills

MBSE

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Technical briefing

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Written communication

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

SysML

Cameo

MagicDraw

Rhapsody

Sparx EA

Job description

MITRE’s Systems and Operations Department in the Center for Engineering and Analysis seeks a senior systems engineer to apply MBSE and systems engineering across the lifecycle for mission-focused national security programs.

You will translate sponsor needs into architectures, lead multidisciplinary teams, and conduct stakeholder workshops, guiding verification, validation, and deployment readiness with government sponsors and a Top Secret/SCI clearance.