Distinguished Chief Engineer, Artificial Intelligence & Autonomy

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Effective communication skills, Environmental, Leadership Skill, Presentation skills

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve the technical vision and strategy for the AIA IC and ensure its alignment with FFRDC strategies.
• Develop new, impactful work opportunities for staff in collaboration with MITRE's business units.
• Ensure the technical relevance, quality, and integrity of our AI work program.
• Shape and drive cutting-edge, sponsor-relevant AI research in MITRE’s Internal Research and Development Program.
• Ensure national impact of AI projects in partnership with project leaders, from inception and onset.
• Oversee AI initiatives to assess and continually improve quality and help staff achieve technical excellence.
• Lead MITRE’s AI Assurance and Discovery Laboratory that is currently under development and ensure the impactful execution of sponsor projects through its capabilities.
• Partner with MITRE’s leadership to operationalize MITRE’s good growth strategy and help grow our team in meaningful ways.
• Collaborate with AIA IC leadership to deliberately grow the organization’s core competencies and to support early career workforce development.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key technical leaders across MITRE program divisions, MITRE Labs, and externally to grow new collaboration opportunities.
• Coordinate technical outreach to industry, academia, and other stakeholders, ensuring that best practices and technologies are brought to bear on technical products.

Required Qualifications:

• World-class technical expertise and recognition in a branch of artificial intelligence.
• Bachelor’s degree and 15 years of relevant work experience or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both untrained and expert audiences.
• Can-do attitude and history of entrepreneurial success.
• Ability to exert meaningful influence over strategic decisions in complex, multi-stakeholder, and collaborative environments.
• Demonstrated track record in learning about and rapidly responding to new problems across a variety of domains.
• Experience with planning, executing, and presenting complex trade studies while balancing cost and schedule constraints.
• Comprehensive understanding of state of the art and best practices in AI technologies and key technical communities outside of MITRE.
• Demonstrated proficiency in both virtual and live presentation of complex technical issues.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD TS/SCI clearance within one year of employment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in computer science, artificial intelligence related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 20+ years of relevant work experience, including full time industry experience or as a researcher.
• Ability to create, articulate, and motivate transformative concepts and outcomes and achieve practical outcomes in complex operational environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in broad areas of artificial intelligence spanning across civil sectors and national security missions.
• Deep understanding of the civil sector and the national security mission spaces, major sponsors and programs, and external research landscapes.
• Demonstrated track record in building strong internal and external partnerships.
• Experience with leveraging solutions from leading academic and commercial research groups.

Our culture is a tangible asset that endures through our people and leaders. At MITRE, our leaders must also demonstrate and continually develop a consistent set of shared Leadership Competencies:

• Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.
• Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using a national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.
• Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities, built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE’s impact in solving problems for a safer world.
• Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders—and desired outcomes—in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.
• Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.

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

None

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

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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