Systems Engineer Intern
MITRE
Summary
The department researches, develops, and applies engineering approaches in the following Systems Engineering Areas: Mission Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Systems-of-Systems Engineering, Enterprise Systems Engineering. The department helps sponsors understand mission needs, translate them into clear and traceable requirements, and design solutions that connect people, processes, technologies, and systems. The department evaluates alternatives, interfaces, dependencies, performance, and risk to support informed design, integration, and investment decisions that improve mission outcomes.
Job description
Job Description
The department researches, develops, and applies engineering approaches in the following Systems Engineering Areas: Mission Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Systems-of-Systems Engineering, Enterprise Systems Engineering. The department helps sponsors understand mission needs, translate them into clear and traceable requirements, and design solutions that connect people, processes, technologies, and systems. The department evaluates alternatives, interfaces, dependencies, performance, and risk to support informed design, integration, and investment decisions that improve mission outcomes.
Job Responsibilities
- Support Mission Engineering activities, such as, mission-thread development, operational scenario modeling and trade studies
- Assist in requirements engineering to elicit, analyze document and maintain needed stakeholder requirements.
- Apply or gain experience in Systems of Systems Engineering to contribute to the architecture, integration, interface definition and interoperability analysis of independent systems
- Apply or gain experience in Enterprise systems engineering to support enterprise architecture, capability planning, portfolio analysis and roadmap development to align mission objectives, organizational processes, technology, data and investments.
Basic Qualifications
- Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
- Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering or related systems modeling and architecture concepts
- Familiarity with Requirements Engineering or an understanding of how needs can be verified, traced and made actionable
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively on multidisciplinary teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.
- U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain the required U.S. government security clearance
- This position has an on-site requirement of 4 days a week minimum
Preferred Qualifications
- Academic, project, or internship experience with systems engineering, analysis, modeling and simulation, software development, or a related technical area.
- Coursework or project experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Digital Engineering, mission engineering, or systems architecture.
- Experience using Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for data analysis, modeling, simulation, or automation.
Requirements
- Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
- Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering or related systems modeling and architecture concepts
- Familiarity with Requirements Engineering or an understanding of how needs can be verified, traced and made actionable
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively on multidisciplinary teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.
- U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain the required U.S. government security clearance
- This position has an on-site requirement of 4 days a week minimum
- Academic, project, or internship experience with systems engineering, analysis, modeling and simulation, software development, or a related technical area.
- Coursework or project experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Digital Engineering, mission engineering, or systems architecture.
- Experience using Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for data analysis, modeling, simulation, or automation.
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.