Electrical Engineer—Power Systems and Energy Resilience

Department Summary

MITRE seeks a senior engineer with expertise in electrical engineering to work in a dynamic analytical environment focused on solving our customers energy technology and resilience challenges. The Quantum, Energy, Earth Sciences and Technology Department serves as a vanguard for MITRE to meet the future needs of our customers, requiring technical excellence while encouraging creativity and fostering interests in current and emerging technologies across its diverse membership.

MITRE’s advanced energy program provides innovative solutions to strengthen energy resilience and readiness to improve national energy security. We are expanding our program to address key challenges and opportunities such as critical energy infrastructure, battery storage, microgrids, and operational energy exercises.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Evaluate electrical power generation, distribution, conversion, and storage systems supporting mission-critical facilities, ground vehicles, aircraft, and operational equipment.
• Develop and validate electrical system models to assess power demand, available capacity, distribution constraints, and performance under normal, degraded, and contingency operating conditions.
• Assess power system resilience, including backup generation, transfer equipment, protection and controls, critical load prioritization, and restoration sequencing.
• Plan and support field evaluations of electrical infrastructure, coordinating with facility personnel, utilities, equipment operators, and other stakeholders to develop test procedures, collect performance data, and identify improvements.
• Design and conduct laboratory experiments to characterize power sources, electrical loads, and interconnected equipment using appropriate instrumentation and data acquisition systems.
• Evaluate equipment interoperability, power quality, conversion efficiency, and transient behavior; investigate anomalies and recommend corrective actions.
• Use measured data to refine engineering models and evaluate system performance across representative operating conditions and mission profiles.
• Translate customer needs into measurable technical requirements, evaluation criteria, and recommendations that account for performance, reliability, safety, and cost.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across MITRE, government, industry, and research organizations, and communicate findings through technical reports and customer briefings.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.
• Deep technical expertise in one or more power electronics areas, including: embedded to utility scale designs, micro and smart grid integration, performance testing and prediction, safety analysis and management, packaging and ruggedization, manufacturing processes and quality control, and system/application integration challenges.
• Strong technical writing and oral presentation skills.
• The ability to conduct research and development of new energy and power technologies to meet customer requirements in a collaborative environment with both internal and external researchers.
• The ability to think critically and be proactive in pursuing research and problem-solving with minimal supervision.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a 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 3 days per week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in one of the following areas: Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and/or Physics.
• Extensive experience and expertise, including recent publications, in the design and evaluation of power electronics and/or their integration into applications.
• Basic understanding of a broad range of energy storage, energy conversion, energy harvesting technologies, power distribution, and power management systems.