Lead Model Based Systems Engineer

at  THE MITRE CORPORATION

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.
MITRE | Australia is Australia’s first national security charity. We aspire to impact the Australian defence industry and science and technology research community by applying our expertise in collaboration with partners to increase the safety of Australia. MITRE | Australia is working on breakthrough approaches to reduce time to market and improve collaboration across discipline and organizational boundaries.

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.

• 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.