National Intelligence Systems Engineering Task Lead
MITRE
Summary
The Strategic Technology and Economic Foresight Department strengthens the IC's ability to anticipate, assess, and respond to global technological and economic competition. The department delivers analytic rigor, foresight, and strategic assessments that help the sponsor understand emerging technologies, geopolitical dependencies, economic risk, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
Job description
Department Overview
The Strategic Technology and Economic Foresight Department strengthens the IC's ability to anticipate, assess, and respond to global technological and economic competition. The department delivers analytic rigor, foresight, and strategic assessments that help the sponsor understand emerging technologies, geopolitical dependencies, economic risk, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
Roles & Responsibilities
The Strategic Technology and Economic Foresight Department seeks a Senior Systems Engineering Task Leader. As a Senior Task Leader, you will be accountable for the overall direction, work shaping, programmatic support, internal and external coordination, execution, and outcomes of MITRE work for the sponsor's evolving research objectives. The primary activities of the team are the development of a research computational framework, user interface and data processing pipelines.
- Direct and oversee the development of all technical work products
- Engage research teams in the use of those products and manage feature requests from research teams
- Engage T&E partner organizations to support all project needs
- Communicate across program efforts on best practices
- Leverage MITRE expertise, research, approaches, frameworks, and technical solutions to help achieve the sponsor's mission outcomes
- Serve as the Task's primary point of contact across the program
- Build and nurture a high-performing team that meets sponsor's desired outcomes
Sponsor/Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as the lead MITRE point of contact for technical needs
- Provide appropriate technical support and reach back to the Sponsor, T&E partners and research teams
- Engage transition partners to understand their requirements and provide training as necessary
Work Program Definition and Execution
- Understand the sponsor's desired mission outcomes and participate in future work-shaping
- Work with the project leadership team to develop and execute sponsor engagement strategy
- Develop and maintain an executable support plan and execute the plan within allocation
- Ensure the right staffing skill mix and resources are in place
Communication
- Ensure that program area knowledge is shared openly to all task leaders and team members
- Serve as communication conduit between project team and sponsor leadership
- Seek internal feedback on project activities and sponsor engagements from project team
- Recognize team accomplishments and achievement appropriately
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
- Demonstrated ability to deliver clear and concise deliverables to Government sponsors
- Demonstrated ability to manage a staff in the production of deliverables for Government sponsors
- Demonstrated ability to work with staff on other tasks to share applicable information to improve MITRE support to Government sponsors
- Demonstrated leadership of project activities
- Must have an active Top Secret/SCI w/Poly U.S. Government issued Security Clearance
- Must be a U.S. Citizen to be considered for a security clearance
- On-site requirement of 3 days a week on-site
- Preferred: Degree in Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field
Benefits
- Competitive Benefits
- Career Development
Company overview
MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation that operates federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) for various U.S. government agencies. Founded in 1958, MITRE serves as a critical bridge between government requirements and technological innovation, providing objective analysis and solutions to complex national security and public interest challenges. The organization's work spans multiple domains including cybersecurity, aviation, healthcare, defense systems, and critical infrastructure protection. MITRE operates two primary FFRDCs: one for the Department of Defense and another for the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Homeland Security. The corporation is renowned for developing technical standards and frameworks, most notably the MITRE ATT&CK framework for cybersecurity threat modeling. With a workforce of engineers, scientists, and technical specialists, MITRE focuses on solving problems of national importance through applied research, systems engineering, and advanced technology development, maintaining strict objectivity by not manufacturing products or competing with private industry.