Communications Engineer
Mitre
- Bedford, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Performing systems engineering analysis for requirement trades, design and integration trades, end-to-end performance analysis, and identifying risk mitigation approaches
- Articulating major uncertainties associated with systems architectures, defining risks and opportunities associated with the uncertainties.
- Communicating work program uncertainties, risks and opportunities with department leadership and Sponsors
- Supporting the development, decomposition, and review system requirements
- Supporting requirements management, interface management and architecture change management processes
- Translating analysis results into actionable recommendations for the US Government agencies
- Tasks may include leading working groups or studies covering multiple engineering domains while interfacing and collaborating across multiple stakeholders to create timely and actionable recommendations.
- Tasks may also include hands-on prototyping, integration, and testing activities.
- Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Requires Secret Clearence
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD TS/SCI clearance.
- Proficient communicating complex technical material in presentations and in writing
- Experience planning, executing, and presenting complex trade studies.
- Experience in systems engineering with expertise across the development lifecycle from concept development, through requirements definition, system development and integration, and into verification.
- Experience working with multiple engineering disciplines to provide solutions to complex problems that require unified software, hardware, mechanical and reliability approaches while balancing cost and schedule constraints.
- Strong interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate across multiple organizations and engineering disciplines.
- This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site
- Experience leading the evaluation and testing of complex systems
- Experience with capabilities trade analysis, mission analysis, information assurance, systems integration, and understanding of the relationships between operational, technical, and system’s architecture
- Familiarity with Military Satellite Communications, especially familiarity with EHF and AEHF SATCOM and associated Satellite Communications terminals (MILSTAR, FAB-T, FET, SMART-T, SCAMP)
- Familiarity with evaluation of RF communications (VLF, UHF, and/or HF)
- Candidates that possess a current/active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance are preferred
- Familiarity with acquisition strategy including DODD 5000.01 and Middle Tier Acquisition (Section 804)
- Experience with multi-disciplinary modeling and simulation (physics-level, engineering-level and/or operational-level)Documented success applying modern systems engineering methods including MBSE
- Experience with system integration and testing (HW/SW) of COTS components for prototyping
- Familiarity with Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) and the nuclear environment.
- Possess an active Top Secret level security clearance