Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. The Strategic Technology and Economic Foresight Department strengthens the sponsor’s ability to anticipate, assess, and respond to global technological and economic competition. The department delivers analytic rigor, foresight, and strategic assessments that help the sponsor understand emerging technologies, geopolitical dependencies, economic risk, and supply chain vulnerabilities. It ensures MITRE provides clear, actionable insights that enable senior leaders to protect national advantage, strengthen resilience, and shape whole-of-government responses to global shifts. Roles & Responsibilities: The Strategic Technology and Economic Foresight Department seeks a Lead Software Engineer Task Leader. We are seeking a motivated and creative candidate with proven experience in project management, technical and thought leadership in the mission space, sponsor relations, and team development. As a Lead Task Leader, you will be accountable for the overall direction, work shaping, programmatic support, internal and external coordination, execution, and outcomes of MITRE work for the sponsor’s evolving research objectives. The primary activities of the team are the development of a research computational framework, user interface and data processing pipelines. • Lead MITRE’s software development efforts in support of the sponsor: • Direct and oversee the development of all software work products. • Engage research teams in the use of those products and manage features requests from research teams. • Engage T&E partner organizations to support all T&E needs. • Communication across program efforts on best practices and reusable software. • Leverage MITRE expertise, research, approaches, frameworks, and technical solutions as appropriate to help achieve the sponsor’s mission outcomes. • Serve as the Task’s primary point of contact across the program. • Build and nurture a high-performing team that meets sponsor’s desired outcomes. • Subject matter expertise in software development, artificial intelligence, on-prem & cloud architecture, and DevSecOps. Sponsor/Stakeholder Engagement • Serve as the lead MITRE point of contact for all software-related materials. • Provide appropriate technical support and reach back to the Sponsor, T&E partners and research teams. • Engage transition partners to understand their requirements and provide training as necessary. Work Program Definition and Execution • Understand the sponsor’s desired mission outcomes and participate in future work-shaping. • Work with the project leadership team to develop and execute sponsor engagement strategy. • Develop and maintain an executable support plan, and execute the plan within allocation. • Ensure the right staffing skill mix and resources are in place. Communication • Ensure that program area knowledge is shared openly to all task leaders and team members. • Serve as communication conduit between project team and sponsor leadership. • Seek internal feedback on project activities and sponsor engagements from project team. • Recognize team accomplishments and achievement appropriately. Basic Qualifications: • Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. • Demonstrated ability to deliver clear and concise deliverables to Government sponsors. • Demonstrated ability to manage a staff in the production of deliverables for Government sponsors. • Demonstrated ability to work with staff on other tasks to share applicable information to improve MITRE support to Government sponsors. • Demonstrated leadership of software activities. • Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance. • This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site. Preferred Qualifications: • Degree in Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field. This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): 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: $156,800 - $196,000 - $235,200 Annual Work Location Type: Onsite It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. 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Requirements

Must-haves

Lead MITRE’s software development efforts in support of the sponsor:
Direct and oversee the development of all software work products.
Engage research teams in the use of those products and manage features requests from research teams.
Engage T&E partner organizations to support all T&E needs.
Communication across program efforts on best practices and reusable software.
Leverage MITRE expertise, research, approaches, frameworks, and technical solutions as appropriate to help achieve the sponsor’s mission outcomes.
Serve as the Task’s primary point of contact across the program.
Build and nurture a high-performing team that meets sponsor’s desired outcomes.
Subject matter expertise in software development, artificial intelligence, on-prem & cloud architecture, and DevSecOps.
Sponsor/Stakeholder Engagement
Serve as the lead MITRE point of contact for all software-related materials.
Provide appropriate technical support and reach back to the Sponsor, T&E partners and research teams.
Engage transition partners to understand their requirements and provide training as necessary.
Work Program Definition and Execution
Understand the sponsor’s desired mission outcomes and participate in future work-shaping.
Work with the project leadership team to develop and execute sponsor engagement strategy.
Develop and maintain an executable support plan, and execute the plan within allocation.
Ensure the right staffing skill mix and resources are in place.
Communication
Ensure that program area knowledge is shared openly to all task leaders and team members.
Serve as communication conduit between project team and sponsor leadership.

Nice-to-haves

Degree in Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field.
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

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