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MITRE
Full time
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USA
11/11/2026
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McLean, VA

Responsibilities

Lead substantial engineering efforts across MITRE’s Enterprise Capabilities, including their design, development, evolution, and sustainable operation.
Partner with CIT teams to adopt, extend, and maximize the value of enterprise capabilities for mission work.
Apply aviation data, models, and operational expertise to technical approaches and sponsor outcomes.
Review technical work products and artifacts as a subject-matter expert supporting continuous quality improvement.
Partner with management and technical leadership to shape and execute the Enterprise Capabilities strategy.
Mentor engineers on software engineering practices, aviation concepts, and responsible AI-assisted development tooling.

Requirements

Typically requires 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 3 years with a master’s degree, or a PhD with relevant experience; equivalent combinations of education and work experience may qualify.
Proficiency in Java, Python, Go, and TypeScript.
Experience with software engineering, big data analytics, cloud computing, and continuous integration/continuous delivery technologies, including AWS, GitHub, Gradle, Spark, or Kubernetes.
Experience delivering and supporting production software applications using Agile and DevOps methodologies and tools.
Demonstrated aviation-domain expertise and a record of delivering mission outcomes against complex sponsor challenges.
Strong verbal and written communication, creative problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government clearance.
Preferred qualifications include broad aviation-domain exposure, agentic AI tooling experience, distributed data and cloud-platform experience, and geospatial or scientific computation experience.

Benefits

Competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence are offered.
The work location is onsite.
The hired candidate must obtain FAA Suitability clearance within one year of hire.

Salary: $173k - $260k/yr

MITRE

MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defe...

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