AEHF Communications Engineer

The MITRE Corporation

$173K — $259K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 10 years related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's; or a PhD with 5 years' experience, or equivalent education/work experience.
  • Active Secret clearance; ability to obtain and maintain DoD TS/SCI clearance.
  • U.S. Citizenship required.
  • Experience in systems engineering across the development lifecycle from concept to verification.
  • Strong communication skills for technical material in presentations and writing.
  • Experience in leading complex trade studies and collaborating across multiple engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

  • Lead systems engineering analysis for requirement and design trades, end-to-end performance analysis, and risk mitigation.
  • Identify and define major uncertainties in systems architectures, managing associated risks and opportunities.
  • Communicate work program risks and opportunities with leadership and sponsors.
  • Develop, decompose, and review system requirements as part of the engineering process.
  • Manage requirements, interface, and architecture change management processes.
  • Translate analysis results into actionable recommendations for U.S. Government agencies.
  • Lead multi-domain working groups to create timely recommendations across stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Challenging opportunities to apply and expand hands-on skills and systems engineering expertise.
  • Opportunity to lead significant projects and influence systems architecture decisions.
  • Collaborative working environment with cross-disciplinary teams.
  • Engagement in high-impact projects within the Military Satellite Communications sector.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a AEHF Communications Systems Engineer with knowledge of Military Satellite Communications, especially familiarity with EHF and AEHF SATCOM and associated Satellite Communications terminals (MILSTAR, FAB-T, FET, SMART-T, GASNT, MMPU, NMT, VPS, SCAMP) to lead the specification development, integration, and test strategies of next generation AEHF Military Satellite Communications systems. This is an opportunity for a Communications Systems Engineer who is highly motivated, innovative and proactive. This position provides challenging opportunities to apply and expand one's hands on skills, systems engineering and trade space analysis skills.

Roles & Responsibilities:
  • Lead systems engineering analysis for requirement trades, design and integration trades, end-to-end performance analysis, and identifying risk mitigation approaches
  • Lead and identify major uncertainties associated with systems architectures, defining risks and opportunities associated with the uncertainties.
  • Communicate work program uncertainties, risks and opportunities with department/division leadership and Sponsors
  • Lead the development, decomposition, and review of system requirements
  • Lead requirements management, interface management and architecture change management processes
  • Translate analysis results into actionable recommendations for the US Government agencies
  • Tasks may include leading working groups or studies covering multiple engineering domains while interfacing and collaborating across multiple stakeholders to create timely and actionable recommendations.


Basic Qualifications:
  • Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
  • Active Secret Clearence with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD TS/SCI clearance.
  • U.S. Citizenship required
  • Lead technical quality efforts and development of technical quality standards within Nuclear Enterprise with technical focus in the Nuclear Enterprise mission area especially in digital communications for AEHF satellite comms, HF, VLF systems
  • Proficient at communicating complex technical material in presentations and in writing
  • Experience leading, planning, executing, and presenting complex trade studies.
  • Experience in systems engineering with expertise across the development lifecycle from concept development, through requirements definition, system development and integration, and verification.
  • Experience working with multiple engineering disciplines to provide solutions to complex problems that require unified software, hardware, mechanical and reliability approaches while balancing cost and schedule constraints.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate across multiple organizations and engineering disciplines.
  • This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Familiarity with ESS SATCOM
  • Experience with leading capabilities trade analysis, mission analysis, information assurance, systems integration, and understanding of the relationships between operational, technical, and system's architecture for AEHF SATCOM
  • Familiarity with evaluation of RF communications
  • Possess a current/active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance are preferred
  • Experience with multi-disciplinary modeling and simulation (physics-level, engineering-level and/or operational-level). Documented success applying modern systems engineering methods including MBSE
  • Experience with leading system integration and testing (HW/SW) of COTS components for prototyping
  • Familiarity with Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) and the nuclear environment.


This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
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:
$173,200 - $216,500 - $259,800 Annual

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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