Associate Systems Engineering

Associate Systems Engineer

At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we are committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. MITRE's Systems Performance and Evaluation Department is charged to solve some of our nation's most critical challenges in delivering services to citizens throughout defense and intelligence, aviation, homeland security, the judiciary, healthcare, and cybersecurity domains.

This is an opportunity for an Associate Systems Engineer with an interest in advancing and applying innovative systems engineering techniques to help solve some of our nation's most critical challenges. We are looking for highly motivated, adaptive, and self-directed candidates with motivation to join our technical workforce, expand their technical skills and capabilities, and grow our work supporting the development and deployment of nationally important solutions through Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Systems Architecture and Requirements Engineering, System-of-Systems, Systems Thinking and practices.

As an Associate Systems Engineer, you will leverage and grow your systems engineering expertise to support the design, implementation, and integration of enterprise systems and systems-of-systems and analysis of missions for federal agencies.

Using your understanding of systems and mission engineering and an awareness of sponsor needs to determine areas where MITRE can have an impact

Applying modern methods and tools such as Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Mission Engineering, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics to assess capability needs, requirements, architecture, designs, performance constraints and gaps, proposed changes, and verification and test approaches

Identifying and developing metrics to measure and analyze relevant system properties, such as robustness, resiliency, interoperability, quality, and maintainability

Performing System Design and development (such as software development), systems modernization, and architecture

Supporting multiple tasks across several government sponsored projects in a small to large team environment

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related engineering field.

Familiarity with programming languages such as Python and MATLAB

Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Engineering (DE) concepts

Experience with statistical analysis and modeling

S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.

This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Advanced degree in related field of study

Experience with multi-disciplinary modeling and simulation (physics-level, engineering-level and/or socio-technical-level)

Experience with Digital Engineering integration through internship, research, or academic projects

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.