Systems Integration Engineering Intern

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The Systems and Operations Department (L626) within MITRE’s Systems Engineering Division in the Center for Engineering and Analysis delivers innovative, mission-focused solutions using a multidisciplinary systems engineering approach to address sponsor challenges critical to national security and public sector missions. Our core focus areas include mission integration, lifecycle systems engineering, and acquisition systems engineering. Our teams develop, assess, and transition engineering solutions, provide strategic technical vision, and deliver data-informed recommendations that enable sponsor mission success from tactical through enterprise levels.

Apply Traditional Systems Engineering (TSE) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) across the system development lifecycle

Develop and refine system architectures, requirements, interfaces, data flows, and integration dependencies

Support integration, testing, verification, validation, deployment planning, and technical transition

Sustained excellence in academic performance

Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship

Experience with system design, system architecture modeling, requirements development, interface analysis, integration planning, verification and validation, and technical documentation

Familiarity with both MBSE and traditional systems engineering approaches, including requirements analysis, functional decomposition, interface control, trade studies, risk analysis, technical reviews, and engineering decision support

S. government security clearance

Familiarity with model-based systems engineering (MBSE), SysML, or tools such as Cameo, MagicDraw, Rhapsody, or Sparx EA through coursework or projects.

Exposure to system architectures, interface modeling, or diagrams describing system structure, behavior, and requirements.

Coursework or project experience related to system integration, testing, verification and validation, or deployment planning.

Coursework or project exposure to digital engineering, cloud computing, data platforms, cybersecurity, communications, networking, or artificial intelligence.

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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