Systems Engineer / Data Science

MITRE Corporation
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Job Description

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.

This is the intersection of Systems Engineering and Data Science!

MITRE’s Systems Engineering Analytics department seeks highly motivated Systems Engineers who are passionate about identifying, developing and applying new technologies that can address the Government's most challenging technical problems.

As our new engineer you will have the opportunity to leverage and grow your engineering expertise by :

  • Working with users to design and build prototypes to explore solutions to complex problems.
  • Evaluating / comparing alternative architectures using qualitative and quantitative techniques; exploring large tradespaces.
  • Hands on technical skills will be used to cleanse / scrub data in advance of using it for statistical analysis and data visualization products.
  • Use the custom developed data visualization products to illustrate cost – benefit analysis of various options for our sponsors.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
  • Must be a US citizen capable of obtaining and maintaining a US government clearance.
  • Fluent in one or more high-level languages (e.g., Python Java, C#/.NET)
  • Experience with modern software methodologies (e.g., Agile/Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
  • Strong working knowledge of modern development tools (Ansible, Git, Gitlab, Jira, Bitbucket, etc)

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in applicable major.
  • Preference given to qualified candidates w/ active clearance.
  • Familiarity with data mining, neural networks & IoT.

Company Info.

MITRE Corporation

The Mitre Corporation is an American not-for-profit organization with dual headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. It manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) supporting various U.S. government agencies in the aviation, defense, healthcare, homeland security, and cybersecurity fields, among others.

  • Industry
    Public Services
  • No. of Employees
    8,425
  • Location
    Bedford, Massachusetts and McLean, Virginia, United States
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