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Systems Engineer

MITRE

MITRE

Software Engineering
Bedford, MA, USA
USD 93k-139k / year
Posted on Nov 18, 2025
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The System and Mission Analysis Department is charged with identifying, developing, and applying new technologies that can address the Government's most challenging Systems Engineering problems.

This is an opportunity for a Systems Engineer who is highly motivated, innovative, and proactive. This position provides challenging opportunities to apply and expand one’s systems architecture, modeling and tradespace analysis skills. Specific areas of interest include practical application of AI, Systems of Systems, architecture modeling, modeling and analysis of complex systems, and decision support.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Using your keen understanding of systems and mission engineering and an awareness of sponsor needs to determine areas where MITRE can have an impact
  • Evaluating and comparing alternative architectures using qualitative and quantitative techniques; exploring large tradespaces
  • Articulating major uncertainties associated with systems architectures, defining risks and opportunities associated with the uncertainties
  • Identifying or developing metrics to measure and analyze relevant system properties, such as robustness, resiliency, interoperability, quality, robustness, and maintainability
  • Supporting requirements management, interface management and architecture change management processes
  • Performing System Design and development (such as software development), systems modernization, and architecture
  • Translating analysis results into actionable recommendations for the US Government agencies

Basic Qualifications:

  • Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Systems Engineering, or related field.
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain and maintain DoD clearance
  • Interest in complex multi-disciplinary problems
  • Expertise in systems and enterprise architecture
  • Mastery of modern system engineering methods & tools: MBSE, Cameo, Doors, SysML, UML
  • Experience rendering objective evaluation of vendor products and approaches.
  • Ingenuity in applying a set of technical skills across multiple subject matter domains such as finance, healthcare and defense.
  • Ability to leverage systems analysis— technical and functional skillsets, maintain relationships with internal and external government representatives.
  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site presence.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in related field of study
  • Experience with multi-disciplinary modeling and simulation (physics-level, engineering-level and/or socio-technical-level)
  • Knowledge of methods for assessing the impacts of emerging technologies on socio-technical enterprises
  • Track record of leadership in SE innovation, research, and publishing
  • Ability to transform state-of-the art in research for application to complex SE problems
  • Demonstrated technical management for SE projects that require cross-disciplinary collaboration
  • Active Security 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):

Top Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$93,000 - $116,000 - $139,000 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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