Space Systems Engineer (Air and Space Forces Center)

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Department Summary:

MITRE's Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Protection Department (N112) works with its government sponsors across space warfighting, acquisition and other mission partners to improve actionable warfighter decisions through enhanced battlespace awareness and reduced timelines achieved by improved sensing and protection against threats. Department projects focus on system integration efforts to successfully incorporate new technologies and software applications in support of a resilient Space enterprise infrastructure, sensing, and an integrated command and control (C2) system. N112 also performs numerous sensor system prototyping and analysis activities including modeling, software tool development, and analysis capabilities designed to enable MITRE and sponsor-driven analysis and research across multiple customers, missions, and technology providers. The research, development, and outcomes of these efforts provide high-quality, comprehensive, quantitative insights for senior government decision makers shaping the future of our nation's Space policy, operations, and systems.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Generating, decomposing, and reviewing system requirements for current and future United States Space Force (USSF) and Department of Defense (DoD) systems and systems-of-systems
• Modeling system requirements, behaviors and interfaces through Digital Engineering processes and tools to highlight dependencies, efficiencies, opportunities, and risks
• Perform operational analysis in support of USSF mission capabilities
• Supporting systems development, analysis, and testing
• Developing and evaluating system designs and architectures, including through scenario driven analysis
• Developing technical prototypes to convey opportunities, gaps, and risks to MITRE sponsors, end users, and stakeholders
• Authoring and contributing to technical papers and presentations that can communicate such activities as architecture designs, Analysis of Alternatives, informational presentations, and technical analysis
• Collaborating with other engineers across MITRE's organizations in order to coordinate development efforts, bring the expertise of others to bear on projects, and to ensure common standards of product quality.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field.

• Experience using software languages and tools such as MATLAB, Python, Ansys STK
• Ability to develop and execute physics-based modeling/simulation to support critical analysis of live data and simulation results for recommendations and lessons learned
• Apply knowledge and principles of engineering analysis or data science disciplines to support recommendations to address sponsor challenges
• Self-starter capable of working in a team-based, dynamic environment
• Demonstrated ability to complete tasks, drive projects to closure, and assimilate and correlate project information in a fast-paced environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to reach out to technical experts
• Excellent technical writing and presentation skills
• Strong motivation to expand knowledge and skills
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in operations research and operational assessment methods
• Demonstrated ability to learn and apply knowledge of a technical domain to modeling, simulation, and analysis, particularly in the Space domain
• Experience presenting and/or publishing research and its impact to a wide audience
• Possess an active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
None

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:
$75,500 - $94,500 - $113,500 Annual

Work Location Type:
Hybrid

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