Senior Systems Engineer — Mission-Critical & Security

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

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite work

Job summary

MITRE in Chantilly, Virginia seeks a Systems Engineer in the Systems and Operations Department to apply rigorous systems engineering to define sponsor requirements and ensure traceability from mission needs to architecture, implementation, testing, and security controls.

You will collaborate with government sponsors, architects, developers, cybersecurity personnel, and operational stakeholders to deliver secure, operational capabilities while contributing to configuration management and

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years with a Master’s degree.
• 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 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 and verbal communication skills across technical and operational stakeholders.
• Active Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph clearance; US citizenship required.

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 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.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements elicitation

Requirements management

Technical communication

Stakeholder coordination

Traceability

Configuration management

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

Model-based systems engineering tools

Requirements-management tools

Job description

MITRE in Chantilly, Virginia seeks a Systems Engineer in the Systems and Operations Department to apply rigorous systems engineering to define sponsor requirements and ensure traceability from mission needs to architecture, implementation, testing, and security controls.

You will collaborate with government sponsors, architects, developers, cybersecurity personnel, and operational stakeholders to deliver secure, operational capabilities while contributing to configuration management and