MITRE is seeking a Principal level Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Engineer to join MITRE Technology and Engineering (L652). This individual will serve as a technical leader, task leader, and trusted advisor across a portfolio of national security and public sector sponsors. The successful candidate will lead and manage complex technical efforts, engage directly with warfighting and defense sponsors, and help identify and cultivate new business opportunities aligned with emerging mission needs.
This role requires deep technical understanding of PNT systems and technologies, combined with strong sponsor engagement, program development, and cross-organizational collaboration skills. The candidate will work within L652 while partnering closely with leaders across MITRE National Security (MNS) and MITRE Public Sector (MPS) to shape, execute, and grow impactful work.
Roles & Responsibilities:- Lead and manage technical projects focused on PNT, resilient navigation, and timing for defense and government sponsors.
- Serve as a senior technical advisor to sponsors, helping them assess operational needs, technology options, system tradeoffs, and transition pathways.
- Apply expertise in PNT technologies, including GPS/GNSS, alternative and complementary RF navigation systems, inertial navigation, precision timing, atomic clocks, and emerging resilient PNT approaches.
- Evaluate the suitability of existing and emerging technologies for specific agency missions, operational environments, platforms, and threat conditions.
- Engage directly with national security sponsors to understand mission challenges, shape technical strategies, and deliver high-value mission outcomes.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, government stakeholders, and MITRE collaborators across departments and centers.
- Identify, develop, and help capture new work opportunities by aligning MITRE capabilities with evolving sponsor priorities and mission gaps.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate technical contributions across systems engineering, modeling and simulation, prototyping, experimentation, and operational analysis.
- Contribute to strategic planning for PNT-related work across MITRE, helping grow MITRE's impact in navigation warfare, assured PNT, and platform/system modernization.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical, operational, and executive audiences through briefings, white papers, technical reviews, and sponsor engagements.
Basic Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science, or a related technical field with 10+ years of relevant professional experience; or a Master's degree with 8+ years of experience; or a PhD with 5+ years of experience.
- Significant professional experience in positioning, navigation, and timing, navigation systems, timing systems, or closely related mission/system domains.
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing complex technical projects, programs, or task portfolios.
- Experience interacting directly with government sponsors and stakeholders, particularly within the defense, national security, or warfighting community.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical solutions in the context of sponsor missions, operational concepts, platforms, constraints, and threats.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief senior government and technical leadership.
- Ability to work collaboratively across organizational boundaries and lead multidisciplinary teams.
- Active security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one.
- 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 50% hybrid on-site
Preferred Qualifications: - Master's degree or PhD in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, physics, applied mathematics, or a related field.
- Deep familiarity with one or more of the following: GPS/GNSS, RF navigation, signals of opportunity, inertial navigation systems, timing distribution, atomic clocks, assured/resilient PNT, EW impacts on PNT, navigation warfare, or contested/degraded environments.
- Domain experience supporting multiple Department of Defense agencies, military services, combatant commands, or related mission organizations.
- Understanding of defense missions, concepts of operation, and platform domains such as air, land, maritime, space, missile, or dismounted systems.
- Experience helping shape strategy, develop new business, and grow sponsor portfolios.
- Experience with technology assessment, system architecture, mission engineering, experimentation, modeling and simulation, requirements analysis, or transition planning.
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):Secret
Salary compensation range and midpoint:$173,200 - $216,500 - $259,800 Annual
Work Location Type:Hybrid
