Provide senior technical leadership and guidance for avionics and electronics development for advanced aerospace systems, serving as a technical advisor to government sponsors and guiding multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Compensation
$105,000 Annually
Maximum Rate
$290,000 Annually
Responsibilities
Provide senior technical leadership and guidance for multiple avionics and electronics development efforts supporting prototype reentry vehicles and advanced aerospace systems.
Serve as a technical advisor to government sponsors, helping evaluate development approaches, identify capability gaps, assess technical risks, and inform investment and acquisition decisions.
Guide and assess the development of flight electronics, embedded systems, instrumentation, sensors, power systems, and related avionics technologies.
Evaluate hardware architectures, subsystem designs, development plans, and test approaches to identify technical challenges and recommend solutions.
Provide technical oversight of prototype development activities conducted by APL teams, industry partners, and other organizations, including design, fabrication, integration, and testing.
Requirements
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline
Nice to have: M.S. or Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or another relevant technical field
Nice to have: experience developing avionics and electronics for reentry vehicles, ballistic missile systems, hypersonic vehicles, spacecraft, or other advanced aerospace platforms
Nice to have: specialized expertise in flight computers, embedded electronics, power distribution, inertial navigation systems, telemetry, instrumentation, or flight data acquisition
Nice to have: experience with Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC), Department of Energy national laboratories, or other strategic weapon system organizations
Lead Space System Engineer supporting the National Reconnaissance Office’s Advanced Systems & Technology Directorate Accelerate System Program Office.
Compensation
$146,400 - $183,000 - $219,600 Annual
Responsibilities
Provide strategic and technical guidance as a trusted advisor to the XSPO Technical Director and help shape the full scope of work supporting AS&T’s publicly recognized mission of advancing next-generation overhead intelligence capabilities through research, prototyping, experimentation, and technology transition
Define and execute technical objectives based on sponsor priorities and mission outcomes, with emphasis on areas where MITRE can provide high-value support to future architecture development, advanced concept evaluation, risk reduction, acquisition, and the maturation of emerging technologies for operational transition
Translate overall project strategy into clear, actionable outcomes, deliverables, technical assessments, architecture products, and engineering recommendations that support AS&T’s role in shaping future space, ground, communications, and data capabilities
Identify and integrate relevant research, innovation, and experimentation from across MITRE, including internal research and development programs, to strengthen sponsor decision-making in areas such as advanced sensors, resilient architectures, autonomy, AI/ML-enabled mission applications, data exploitation, and other mission-enabling technologies associated with XSPO’s innovation portfolio
System Software Engineer Intern - Autonomous Vehicles – 2027
Contribute to in-vehicle system software for autonomous vehicles, including data collection, software updates, diagnostics, connectivity, and cybersecurity.
Responsibilities
Implement and test in-vehicle system software in C/C++
Help improve reliability, performance, and security of vehicle software
Contribute to tools for development, debugging, validation, and operation
Integrate software on vehicle platforms and debug issues
Document designs, test results, and findings
Requirements
BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field
Manage portfolio risk, oversee trade execution, supervise research and development team, design and develop quantitative investment strategies, conduct research and expand trading universe.
Responsibilities
Dynamically managing portfolio risk by evaluating historical and real-time strategy performance.
Overseeing automated trade execution and monitoring transaction costs.
Supervising a small team of researchers and developers on a daily basis.
Designing, researching, and managing sophisticated investment strategies by creating and engineering advanced quantitative financial computer modeling systems.
Performing research to acquire historical and production data sources needed to build investment models.
Requirements
Advance degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in a computational or analytical field.
Support the assessment of emerging technologies and mission concepts by leading studies, trade analyses, technical evaluations, and prototype-informed recommendations that help determine feasibility, mission utility, architectural compatibility, and transition potential