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Principal Resiliency Analyst (Air and Space Force Center)
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Department Summary:
The N111 Department’s mission is to provide thought leadership and data driven analysis to enable the Department of the Air Force and the USSF to design, develop, acquire, and integrate future warfighting space force designs, including space system-of-systems architectures and space programs, in time to outpace accelerating threats. Our focus is to create, integrate, and assess space concepts, technologies, enterprise architectures, and wargaming to fight and win.
Roles & Responsibilities:
As a Principal Resiliency Analyst, you will serve as the Space Warfighting Analysis Center's (SWAC) Missile Warning and Tracking Division (MWTD) Task Lead and primary technical contributor. The SWAC is the organization tasked with developing the USSF’s future force designs, recommended architectures, and mission capabilities necessary for success in future military conflicts. You will leverage your extensive knowledge of remote sensing and resiliency analysis to guide the SWAC MWTD Division's force design studies and evaluations, influencing billions of dollars in future investments and acquisitions. This role demands deep technical expertise in the resiliency field, the readiness to apply this expertise to new architectural designs, and the ability to manage diverse, fast-paced teams. Your skills will be instrumental to the success of both the Space Systems Command (SSC) and the SWAC.
Job Responsibilities include:
Top Secret
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Top Secret/SCI
Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$165,000 - $206,000 - $247,000 Annual
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
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Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.
Department Summary:
The N111 Department’s mission is to provide thought leadership and data driven analysis to enable the Department of the Air Force and the USSF to design, develop, acquire, and integrate future warfighting space force designs, including space system-of-systems architectures and space programs, in time to outpace accelerating threats. Our focus is to create, integrate, and assess space concepts, technologies, enterprise architectures, and wargaming to fight and win.
Roles & Responsibilities:
As a Principal Resiliency Analyst, you will serve as the Space Warfighting Analysis Center's (SWAC) Missile Warning and Tracking Division (MWTD) Task Lead and primary technical contributor. The SWAC is the organization tasked with developing the USSF’s future force designs, recommended architectures, and mission capabilities necessary for success in future military conflicts. You will leverage your extensive knowledge of remote sensing and resiliency analysis to guide the SWAC MWTD Division's force design studies and evaluations, influencing billions of dollars in future investments and acquisitions. This role demands deep technical expertise in the resiliency field, the readiness to apply this expertise to new architectural designs, and the ability to manage diverse, fast-paced teams. Your skills will be instrumental to the success of both the Space Systems Command (SSC) and the SWAC.
Job Responsibilities include:
- Engineer future MWTD architectures using experience, focused study, and analysis
- Evaluate architecture performance against agreed upon figures of merit
- Provide technical expertise and guidance to the MWTD Program Offices, assisting in their acquisition and sustainment activities for current and future programs of record
- Recommend solutions to acquisition requirements through focused analysis and study
- Providing technical insight to a diverse group of individuals comprised of government, FFRDC, UARC, and SETA employees.
- Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Ability to possess/maintain a DoD Top-Secret Clearance
- Understanding of USSF organizations, space operations, and space systems
- Demonstrated expertise in resiliency analysis, remote sensing, and/or environmental effects therein
- Detailed knowledge of the MW enterprise (both current and future capabilities)
- Ability to work with highly dynamic, fast-paced teams comprised of numerous companies and organizations
- Understanding of threats to the MW mission (electronic, kinetic, cyber attack, etc.)
- Knowledge and/or experience with current MW modernization or sustainment programs
- Understanding of astrodynamics principles and their impact to the MW mission
- This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site
- Doctorate degree in the identified or a related field and 10 years of related experience
- Experience in nuclear effects analysis
- Experience working with general space and astrodynamics tools (STK, etc.)
- Systems Engineering experience
- Experience working on programs with allied foreign nations
- Ability to code using C++, Python, or MATLAB
- TS/SCI Clearance
Top Secret
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Top Secret/SCI
Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$165,000 - $206,000 - $247,000 Annual
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
MITRE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. MITRE recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age; ancestry; color; family medical or genetic information; gender identity and expression; marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics. For further information please visit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website EEO is the Law Poster and Pay Transparency.
MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org.
Copyright © 2024, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.
Benefits information may be found here