Project Leader, Advanced Systems & Technology Directorate (Intelligence Center)

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Algorithms, Effective communication skills, Machine learning techniques, Presentation skills, Transformer

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

We’re seeking an experienced Project Leader (PL) to take charge of the project supporting our National Space Program (NSP) sponsor’s Advanced Systems and Technology Directorate (AS&T). AS&T’s mission is technology and tradecraft for intelligence dominance. It performs research and development on technology that enables a responsive, problem-centric multi-INT architecture, investing in Advanced Technologies, Applied Technologies, and capability demonstration Pathfinders. The desired candidate will:

• Serves as lead MITRE interface with AS&T leaders and managers, accountable for overall direction, technical quality, resource planning, internal and external coordination, execution, and outcomes of MITRE’s AS&T work
• Build the project team, collaborating with MITRE’s NSP leadership team and Innovation Center leaders to identify and assemble the right talent for the project
• Develop detailed knowledge and insight of the sponsor’s organization, mission, strategic direction and challenges; works with NSP leadership to identify the priorities and objectives of AS&T and helps shape MITRE’s NSP strategy
• Oversee and guide activities of individual contributors on the project
• Serve as an individual contributor residing in AS&T spaces, providing technical and domain expertise to achieve project outcomes
• Accountable as the day‐to‐day interface to the sponsor, developing trusted partner relationships with AS&T seniors and informing MITRE NSP leadership of significant developments
• Work closely and regularly with AS&T to ensure most effective use of MITRE FFRDC resources, advising the government when MITRE FFRDC-appropriate work is approaching completion, developing transition plans (if appropriate) of completed MITRE work, proactively keeping the government informed on staffing and budget delivery, and working with the government on applying MITRE resources against their top challenges, to include changing the project skill mix, as necessary
• Ensure quality, schedule, and delivery of AS&T MITRE products, to include appropriate level of peer review

Basic Qualification:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Due to the lengthy clearance process, candidates without an existing TS/SCI clearance cannot be considered for this opening.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of related experience; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or 5 years and a PhD; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or technical equivalent
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and participate in cross functional teams, build relationships and reach back into corporate expertise, and operate at high level of self-sufficiency
• Excellent written and oral communications skills including presentation and facilitation; ability to succinctly provide courses of action, technical recommendations and products tailored to the sponsor’s mission, senior leader priorities and operating environments
• Ability to work on-site with the sponsor in their secure Chantilly VA government facility as well as secure MITRE facilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Project Leader experience
• Advanced degree of study in a technical field
• Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms and models, especially with Transformer architectures
• Experience with and expertise in national space systems and the national space community
• Experience with the Intelligence Community and DoD

   

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI

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/Polygraph

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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