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This position is within the Defense Systems Engineering Department (N222) to support the implementation of the Universal Command & Control (UC2) language as part of the Integrated Network System of Systems (INSS) capability. This work is sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) for Research and Engineering (R&E), Test Resource Management Center. INSS is an OUSD(R&E) Critical Technology Area that encompasses the capability to communicate, provide real-time dissemination of information across the Department, and effective command and control in a contested electromagnetic environment. The MITRE UC2 work program is collaborating with the United States Air Force (USAF) Common Tactical Edge Networking (CTEN) program to develop and integrate a transformation service that will enable reliable interoperability of disparate platforms and systems across all the Services, multiple message domains, and operating environments. MITRE’s CTEN and TRMC’s UC2 efforts are enhancing the resulting data model foundations for both Government programs. MITRE is developing inbound and outbound message transformation services that leverage the CTEN Project schema and the UC2 schema value propositions. The SME will serve as a team lead for the software engineering team that encompasses early career engineers.

Responsibilities include:

• Writing transformation services software for the UC2 program

• Planning and incorporating middleware for connectivity to customer sites and test and evaluation events

• Developing software testing strategies to cover the integration, system, and unit testing.

• Providing task management support to the MITRE task leader, to include scoping larger tasks into manageable milestones with intermediate steps to achieve the milestones, and helping junior staff scope their work into manageable tasks.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically, 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, physics, computer engineering, mathematics, or similar field; or 6 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience.

• Knowledge and experience with systems engineering across the development lifecycle from concept inception through requirements definition, system development, integration, and verification test, evaluation, resources, and processes.

• Experience with ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) on various platforms from XML, JSON, or test transform to various technologies

• Experience/knowledge with software development tools/environments, to include Matlab, Java, JavaScript, Scala, Git, XML, and JSON

• Experience with software planning tools Gitlab or Jira

• Familiar with multiple Operating Systems including Unix based scripting

• Familiar with message standards such as Link 16, Variable Message Format (VMF), Common Mapping Format (CMF), or Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI)

• Excellent communication skills to convey software concepts to various technical levels. This includes communicating potential risks to schedule concerns versus the benefits of new features

• An active DoD Secret clearance

• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site presence.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with military data standard and/or experience with Command-and-Control protocols

  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):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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