The MITRE Corporation Lead Experimentation Systems Engineer (Joint and Services Center)
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
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The Indo-Pacific Regional Operations Department (N254) works with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) and the Military Service Components on-island to inform warfighter requirements and Concepts of Operation (CONOPS), and provides Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) systems acquisition, engineering, and integration support to the Department of Defense (DOD) and U.S. Allies in the Pacific Theater.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Build and manage sponsor, MITRE, and stakeholder relationships pertaining to INDOPACOM experimentation.
- Shape/create cohesive experimentation campaign plan(s) for INDOPACOM that demonstrates how operational capability is being incrementally demonstrated and matured.
- Increase collaboration and coordination on experimentation between INDOPACOM, the Service Components and the Services through this strategy.
- Develop, with stakeholders, the resourcing strategy to rapidly develop, acquire, maintain, and transition capability into the Indo-Pacific Theater.
- Identify opportunities to leverage Service unique experimentation to advance INDOPACOM priorities.
- Define key metrics that can/should be utilized and measured through experimentation to quantify improvements in operational capability.
- Collaborate with other government, FFRDC, and MITRE experimentation leads and organizations to rapidly identify and integrate new technology into theater.
Basic Qualifications:
- Typically BS in a technical discipline, such as Engineering, Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields; or a BA in International Relations, International Security, or similar fields and 8 years of experience, or a master’s degree and 6 years of experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Familiarity with DoD military missions.
- Prior experience working day-to-day in government-controlled DoD spaces.
- Demonstrated expert level knowledge of operational and developmental experimentation.
- Strong system-of-systems engineering experience across weapon systems and mission sets.
- Familiarity with various DoD acquisition approaches.
- Prior experience with US Department of Defense systems of systems integration.
- Effective and influential oral communications skills.
- Strong written and oral communications skills.
- Active Top Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI.
This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years of related experience; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Working knowledge of model-based systems engineering, operational analysis, and modeling & simulation.
- Current knowledge of emerging technology being adopted into acquisition programs and/or the INDOPACOM theater.
- Familiarity with MITRE project management processes, capabilities, and associated tools.
- Demonstrated capability for strategic planning and ability to provide actionable plans to government sponsors.
- Experience with and/or future interest in project and department leadership roles including project leader, task leader, and group leader.
- Active TS/SCI.
Salary compensation range and midpoint: $138,500 - $173,000 - $207,500 Annual
Work Location Type: Hybrid
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