Systems of Systems Integration Engineering Capability Chief Engineer

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MITRE Technology and Engineering's Systems Engineering Division delivers innovative, multidisciplinary systems engineering solutions that support MITRE and its diverse sponsor base. The division is a leader across government, industry, and academia in advancing next-generation systems engineering and applying best practices to complex national security and public sector challenges. Its technical expertise includes:

• Mission, Enterprise, and Domain Engineering
• Systems Engineering, Architecting, and Lifecycle Integration
• Digital Engineering, Prototyping, and Modernization
• Architecture, Interfaces, and Open Systems
• Performance Analysis, Test, and Evaluation
• AI-Enabled Systems Engineering

The division applies these capabilities across sponsors to address broad national challenges, integrate lessons learned across domains, and continuously strengthen MITRE's impact and differentiated value in systems engineering.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Systems Engineering Division is seeking a visionary technical leader to serve as Systems of Systems (SoS) Integration Engineering Capability Chief Engineer (CCE).

The CCE will work with division leadership, department managers, and peer CCEs to define and drive the technical strategy, execution, and application of SoS integration. The role advances approaches that enable independently developed systems to work together to achieve mission outcomes, including architecture, interfaces, interoperability, technology insertion, and operational integration. The successful candidate brings recognized technical expertise, inspirational leadership, creativity, and flexibility across diverse problem sets.

The CCE will collaborate with the Division Chief Engineer, Department Managers, and peer CCEs to bring division capabilities to bear on MITRE's FFRDC work programs. In coordination with the Division CE, the CCE will be accountable for the utility and quality of supported capabilities, including applicable physical and virtual lab infrastructure, shared frameworks, and technical approaches. While not a formal people-management role, the CCE will contribute to staff development and provide technical mentorship across the division.

In addition to direct FFRDC work, the CCE will engage with MITRE's internal research and development program to shape research priorities and mentor staff from ideation through proposal and project execution.

The CCE will also provide individual, senior principal technical support directly to MITRE's work programs. Direct sponsor contributions should focus on technical leadership within SoS integration.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Technical Quality and Impact

• Lead technical quality efforts and contribute to development and adoption of technical quality standards within key work programs and labs/capabilities.

• Drive technical quality across SoS integration engineering through capability development, strategic investment recommendations, stewardship of applicable physical and virtual infrastructure, and technical development and mentorship opportunities.

• Collaborate with the Division CE, peer CCEs, and partners in MNS and MPS to strengthen the technical work program by:

• shaping content through participation in technical product definition and reviews

• setting expectations for current work and the future work program

• bringing a perspective grounded in systems of systems integration and the state of the art

• Strategy Development & Innovation

• Execute and evolve division technical strategy aligned with MITRE's S&T strategy; identify opportunities in systems of systems engineering, interoperability, technology insertion, architecture, interfaces, and operational integration.

• Identify innovation opportunities for work programs and internal research and development; propose or lead cross-cutting initiatives that improve integration under mission conditions.

• Develop and maintain relationships with key technical leaders across MITRE program divisions, internal research and development, and external partners.

• Coordinate technical outreach to industry, academia, government communities, and other stakeholders to incorporate relevant integration practices and technologies into technical products.

• Lead cross-department or cross-division technical initiatives, as needed, with measurable impact.

• Capability Stewardship & Governance

• Evaluate the health and quality of systems of systems integration engineering capabilities, including staff skills, facilities, integration environments, reusable frameworks, and mission-ready technology.

• Provide timely recommendations to division leadership on establishing, sustaining, or retiring labs, infrastructure, tools, platforms, and frameworks supporting systems of systems integration engineering.

• Staff Development (non-supervisory, but accountable for technical mentorship)

• Mentor and develop technical staff, including cultivating career paths in systems of systems and systems of systems integration engineering across the division.

• Provide input to talent assessment and staff development planning.

• Direct Sponsor / Program Contributions

• Provide individual, differentiated technical contributions directly to sponsors and internal customers, focusing on technical leadership with measurable impact in systems of systems integration engineering.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of systems of systems integration or related systems engineering experience with a bachelor's degree; or 10 years and a master's degree; or a PhD with 7 years' experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Deep technical expertise and recognition in systems of systems and systems of systems integration engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to exert meaningful influence over strategic decisions in complex, multi-stakeholder, collaborative environments.
• Demonstrated track record of learning about and rapidly responding to new problems across a variety of domains.
• Experience planning and leading integration analyses, trade studies, experimentation, or technical reviews while balancing mission outcomes, cost, schedule, and risk.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain challenging technical concepts to expert and non-expert audiences.
• Mentoring experience in formal or informal roles across a range of staff experience levels and team sizes.
• Demonstrated proficiency in virtual and live presentations of complex technical issues.
• Technical expertise and influence to improve mission outcomes in alignment with division strategy and in coordination with the Systems Engineering Chief Engineer.
• Must have an active Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• A graduate degree in systems engineering, systems integration, operations research, computer science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Experience integrating independently developed systems into complex operational capabilities or systems of systems.
• Demonstrated success with technology insertion, interoperability, open systems, architecture, interfaces, or integration verification.
• Experience addressing human, organizational, process, data, and technology dependencies in operational integration.
• Experience using modeling, simulation, digital engineering, prototyping, or experimentation to reduce integration risk.
• Track record of building internal and external partnerships and contributing to publications, conferences, or standards activities.
• Experience applying AI or automation to integration engineering, test, analysis, or decision support.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret

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:

$190,000 - $237,500 - $285,000 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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