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The MITRE Corporation Systems Engineer (Joint and Services Center) in McLean, Virginia

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

Join MITRE’s Soldier Capabilities department and work with engineers, scientists, military experts, and technology providers with a common vision of becoming the industry-leading innovator of combat and training capabilities for optimal sustained Soldier effectiveness, lethality, survivability, and readiness. Generally, project tasks fall beneath the following domains: research and analysis, requirements engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, systems design, proof of concept development, web development, game / simulation development, and test development.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Specific tasks will vary with current project demands, but will likely include some / many of the following: researching and assisting with implementation of software prototypes to demonstrate proof of concept capabilities

  • Develop engineering products, white papers, and briefings, and deliver presentations to sponsors that summarize engineering research and analysis findings/recommendations.

  • Collaborate in a multi-disciplinary environment with MITRE peers, our government sponsor, industry, academia, and research institutions.

  • Apply system engineering skills to drive a holistic approach against Soldier effectiveness and readiness problem sets.

  • Apply cutting edge methods and tools to evaluate training and operations performance, constraints, and gaps (and propose changes).

  • Support the application of emerging technologies across multiple Army domains.

  • Develop proof of concepts to demonstrate best practice software integration patterns.

  • Develop of system and system of systems architectures, leveraging industry standard best practices and principles to iteratively develop architectures.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Typically, requires less than 1 year of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or relevant technical discipline; or combination of equivalent related education and work experience.

  • Knowledge and experience with systems engineering across the development lifecycle from concept inception through requirements definition, system development, integration, and verification test, evaluation, resources, and processes

  • Familiar with multiple Operating Systems including Windows and Linux

  • Experience with software development tools/environments

  • Experience with software planning tools such as Gitlab or Jira

  • Experience with multiple programming languages

  • Familiar with agile methodologies and tools

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, to convey concepts to various technical levels.

  • Ability to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance.

  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Typically requires a Bachelors degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience, or an advanced degree with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

  • Experience working within an agile development team

  • Experience with container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes

  • Experience with continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) technology such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, Travis CI, CircleCI

  • Experience with Configuration Management / Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Terraform)

  • Experience with web development technologies such as HTML5/JavaScript, React, RESTful web service framework (e.g. Node.js, Spring Boot), relational database technology (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL database technology (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra)

  • Experience with game engines such as Unity, Unreal Engine, and CRYENGINE

  • Experience with Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS and Azure)

  • Knowledge of Web applications development using HTML / JavaScript, React, Vue, Angular.

  • Experience using industry standard technologies for defining service interfaces (e.g., REST/Swagger, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers).

  • An active DoD Secret or higher 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):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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