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Department Summary:

We are currently seeking a Senior Cleared Software Systems Engineer to join the Cross-cutting Urgent Innovation Cell (CUIC), an organization that is unique to MITRE because: 

We are a team of analysts, scientists, innovators, and engineers focused on delivering meaningful solutions to national security challenges. We concentrate on rapid prototyping, mission analysis, experimentation, and research together in a unique environment that is structured to optimize results. We leverage our strong relationships with our customers and their missions to drive innovation that helps solve our nation’s biggest challenges. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

A Senior Cleared Software Systems Engineer is needed who possesses a strong programming capability. This position involves software engineering, database development, data analytics, and geospatial reasoning in classified environments. Successful candidate(s) will learn new techniques and approaches on-the-job, working in collaboration with other team members. 

Basic Qualifications:

Active Top Secret clearance.Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.Typically requires a degree in computer science, data science, applied mathematics/statistics, operation research, artificial intelligence, or other physical science/engineering fields.2+ years of experience working technical challenges. Must meet eligibility requirements for TS/SCI (Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation).Demonstrated problem-solving skills and capable of working in a cross-functional environment that includes scientists, data analysts, technical software developers, and intelligence analysts.Experience with software engineering concepts such as development, debugging, git, code reviews, continuous integration, and testing.Experience developing in python.Experience developing in linux/unix operating systems.Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications: 

Active TS/SCI clearance.Master’s degree in computer science, data science, applied mathematics/statistics, operation research, artificial intelligence, or other physical science/engineering fields. Experience cleaning and wrangling real-world messy data. Data analysis around business intelligence, supply chain, economics, cyber, and/or critical infrastructure topics. Domain knowledge of machine learning and computer vision techniques for classification, detection, key attribute extraction, segmentation, or activity detection.  Proficiency with data science stack(s) within python such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, etc Experience developing applications with Elasticsearch or graph databases like Neo4j Proficiency querying, designing, and optimizing relational database tools such as PostgreSQL. Experience with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Singularity) and container orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift).  Prior experience deploying to cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) 

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

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

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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