Software Engineering, Associate (Center for Integrated Transportation)

at  THE MITRE CORPORATION

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DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:

Our team architects, implements, and operates enterprise data systems, software products, and enabling engineering platforms. We have a diverse, highly technical, and motivated team that embraces self-direction and empowerment toward our goal of delivering powerful and sustainable software for the enterprise. Having experts in a wide variety of domains (software architecture, big data & cloud computing, aviation domain, etc.), we rely on cross-functional collaboration to promote organizational learning and quality.

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 in Computer Science, Data Science, or other engineering fields.
• US citizen capable of obtaining & maintaining a US government clearance
• Experience with high level programming languages such as Java or Python
• Experience with software version control, continuous integration and delivery, and Agile and DevOps methodologies and tools.
• Comfortable learning new languages and ideas, embracing continuous, on-the-job learning
• Creative problem solvers and risk takers
• Ability to collaborate effectively with teammates, technical partners, and stakeholders
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Familiarity with web technologies and frameworks such as Typescript, JSON, React, and Vue
• Familiarity with data science, analysis, modeling, and visualization using Python, R, and/or Clojure
• Familiarity with distributed data systems and cloud platforms (Hadoop, AWS, Spark, Kafka, etc.)

• Design and implement scalable software systems with quality and rigor
• Continuously improve our codebases and our development/deployment processes
• Collaborate with peers during planning, technical discussions, and code reviews
• Write clean and testable code that works consistently locally and in virtual & cloud environments
• Partner with domain experts to apply our software products to our diverse Mission space
• Share your experiences with other MITRE teams and external audiences