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 missions. We advance engineering rigor, operational relevance, and mission effectiveness across complex systems and enterprises, with core focus areas in 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.

Job Description:

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.

Roles and Responsibilities:

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

• Translate mission needs, operational constraints, and capability gaps into system concepts, designs, and technical solutions

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

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

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on technical deliverables, documentation, and presentations

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering or a related degree and applicable internship(s) or academic projects
• 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
• Interest in complex multi-disciplinary problems
• Willingness and ability to learn new tools/concepts in a variable environment of government sponsors
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 3 days per week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance
• Advanced degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering or a related degree
• 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.
• Interest in federal acquisition processes, market research, technical evaluations, and transitioning technologies into operational use.
• Exposure to digital engineering, cloud computing, data platforms, cybersecurity, communications, networking, or artificial intelligence.

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$77,600 - $97,000 - $116,400 Annual

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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