USPACOM Lead Experimentation Engineer

MITRE; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE is seeking a Lead Experimentation Engineer to support USPACOM in Honolulu, Hawaii. The role focuses on accelerating technical innovation and delivering operational impact for warfighters across theater and services.

You will shape campaigns, build stakeholder relationships, and drive distributed experimentation between MITRE’s McLean campus and USPACOM. The position requires a strong background in systems engineering, DoD acquisition, and operational experimentation, with Top Secret/SCI

Qualifications

• BS in a technical discipline with 8 years related experience, or master's with 6 years
• Familiarity with the Pacific theater and DoD missions
• Experience working in DoD government spaces
• Demonstrated knowledge of operational and developmental experimentation
• Active TS/SCI clearance eligibility

Responsibilities

• Shaping, creating, and facilitating cohesive experimentation campaign plans for USPACOM that demonstrate how operational capabilities are incrementally adapted and matured
• Building and managing sponsor, MITRE, and stakeholder relationships pertaining to USPACOM experimentation
• Increasing collaboration and coordination on experimentation between USPACOM, theater Service Components, and priority theater partners
• Developing, with stakeholders, the resourcing strategy to rapidly develop, acquire, maintain, and transition capability into the Pacific Theater
• Designing plans and infrastructure to enable distributed experimentation between MITRE’s McLean campus and USPACOM
• Developing eventual transition plans/strategies for MITRE experimentation to USPACOM
• Identifying opportunities to leverage Service unique experimentation to advance USPACOM priorities
• Defining key metrics to quantify improvements in operational capability
• Collaborating with government, FFRDC, and MITRE experimentation leads to integrate new technology

Skills

Operational experimentation

Systems engineering

DoD acquisition knowledge

Oral communication

Written communication

Top Secret clearance

Education

BS in technical field

MS/PhD preferred

Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

Department Summary

The Pacific Regional Operations Department (N554) works with the U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) and the Military Service Components on-island to inform warfighter requirements and Concepts of Operation (CONOPS), and provides Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) systems acquisition, engineering, and integration support to the Department of War (DOW) and U.S. Allies in the Pacific Theater. N554 is a dynamic and forward leaning organization that provides direct connections to warfighters. These direct connections allow staff to monitor and participate in current operations and exercises. A key output of this access is the ability to inform technology innovation and capability analysis with operational domain expertise. N554 operational depth and warfighter access has generated considerable expertise in the development and analysis of CONOPS, mission threads, use cases, and operational requirements. The Department establishes links between DoW sponsors and Coalition Partner development activities. N554 is on the cutting edge of current operations and is a major thought leader in force modernization.

Roles and Responsibilities

The Department is seeking to fill a Lead Experimentation Engineer position supporting MITRE’s project with USPACOM in Honolulu, Hawaii. MITRE aims to deliver quantifiable mission value and operational impact to the warfighter – primarily by accelerating technical innovation of new ideas and solutions to emerging operational problems. In general, we collaborate with acquisition stakeholders, technology innovators, operational analysts, and other mission partners to help accelerate the delivery of needed capabilities to operational and tactical level warfighters across the naval, joint, and combined force.

• Shaping, creating, and facilitating cohesive experimentation campaign plans for USPACOM that demonstrate how operational capabilities and plans are being incrementally adapted and matured.
• Building and managing sponsor, MITRE, and stakeholder relationships pertaining to USPACOM experimentation.
• Increasing collaboration and coordination on experimentation between USPACOM, theater Service Components, and priority theater partners.
• Developing, with stakeholders, the resourcing strategy to rapidly develop, acquire, maintain, and transition capability into the Pacific Theater.
• Designing plans and infrastructure to enable distributed experimentation between MITRE’s McLean campus and USPACOM.
• Developing eventual transition plans/strategies for MITRE experimentation to USPACOM.
• Identifying opportunities to leverage Service unique experimentation to advance USPACOM priorities.
• Defining key metrics that can/should be utilized and measured through experimentation to quantify improvements in operational capability.
• Collaborating with other government, FFRDC, and MITRE experimentation leads and organizations to rapidly identify and integrate new technology into theater.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically, BS in a technical discipline, such as Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Computer), Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields; or a BA in International Relations, International Security, or similar fields and 8 years of experience, or a master’s degree and 6 years of experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Familiarity of the Pacific theater and applicable DoW missions and problem sets.
• Prior experience working day-to-day in government-controlled DoD spaces.
• Demonstratable knowledge of operational and developmental experimentation.
• Strong system-of-systems engineering experience across weapon systems and mission sets.
• Familiar with various DoD acquisition approaches.
• Prior experience with US Department of Defense systems of systems integration.
• Effective and influential oral communications skills.
• Strong written and oral communications skills.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI

PreferredQualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years of related experience; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Working knowledge of model-based systems engineering, operational analysis, and modeling & simulation.
• Current knowledge of emerging technology being adopted into acquisition programs and/or the USPACOM theater.
• Familiarity with MITRE project management processes, capabilities, and associated tools.
• Demonstrated capability for strategic planning and ability to provide actionable plans to government sponsors.
• Experience with and/or future interest in project and department leadership roles including project leader, task leader, and group leader
• Active TS/SCI

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s)

Top Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s)

Top Secret/SCI

Salary compensation range and midpoint

$146,400 - $183,000 - $219,600 Annual

Work Location Type

Hybrid

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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