National Intelligence Systems Engineering Task Lead

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 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. The Strategic Technology and Economic Foresight Department seeks a Senior Systems Engineering 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. The primary activities of the team are the development of a research computational framework, user interface and data processing pipelines. Lead MITRE's technical efforts in support of the sponsor: Engage research teams in the use of those products and manage features requests from research teams. Engage T&E partner organizations to support all project needs. 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. 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 with the project leadership team to develop and execute sponsor engagement strategy. Serve as communication conduit between project team and sponsor leadership. Seek internal feedback on project activities and sponsor engagements from project team.