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Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead MITRE teams that are assisting government leaders in implementing and adopting Digital Engineering (DE) and Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) practices and tools.

• Direct development of systems engineering models that enable government customers to make informed decisions about acquisitions, requirements, design, and execution of a program and/or systems.

• Oversee analysis of current government implementations of DE/MBSE efforts and identifying improvements in digital engineering adoption, execution, and sustainment.

• Apply strategic systems engineering, model-based engineering, and digital engineering methods to solve current and emerging digital engineering challenges.

• Provide thought leadership to further mature and develop revolutionary digital engineering solutions consisting of people, process, and tools to advance the state-of-the art digital and mission engineering solutions to complex programs for Australia.

Basic Qualifications:

• Australian citizen.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or relevant technical discipline.

• A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 4 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 2 years of relevant experience who can immediately contribute; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Demonstrated ability to exercise systems thinking, knowledge of systems architecture and systems design and development.

• Demonstrated ability to execute technical work in complex, muti-disciplinary and ambiguous situations.

• Basic computer programming skills

• Eligible for Australian Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1) clearance.

• Strong written, communication, and presentation skills.

• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s or Doctoral degree in engineering, physics, mathematics or relevant technical discipline.

• Knowledge of Mission Engineering, Analysis of Alternatives, Verification and Validation, Design of Experiments, simulation design and/or data analytics.

• In-depth experience designing, developing, and deploying complex government systems.

• Experience with multi-disciplinary modelling and simulation (physics-level, engineering-level and operational-level) and working across an enterprise at multiple levels of abstraction.

• Understanding and demonstrated application of modern systems engineering and systems of systems engineering methods, including proficiency with SysML or other modeling languages.

• Experience using modern model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools (e.g., CATIA, MagicDraw, DOORS, Rhapsody).

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, as required.

• Eligible for Australian Positive Vetting (PV) clearance.

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, as required.

  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):

None

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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