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The MITRE Corporation EDGE Lab Manager (Active Secret Clearance) in McLean, Virginia
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MITRE’s Law Enforcement (LE) and U.S. Coast Guard and Department focuses on operational support across a broad range of mission outcome areas for Homeland Security sponsors. We strive to provide excellence in systems engineering, operational modeling, cybersecurity, intelligence analysis, AI/ML data analytics, sensor systems, and terrestrial & satellite communications with an emphasis on both analytical and lab-based experimentation.
Within the LE & USCG Department, the Edge Lab supports MITRE’s public sector sponsors throughout the program development life cycle, working to create, evaluate, and test innovative and pragmatic solutions that enable seamless technology transitions and inform acquisition decisions. The EDGE Lab develops advanced prototypes and validates hardware and software applications across public safety command, control, communication, computers, cyber and intelligence (C5I) systems. This includes design, testing, and evaluation of the solutions we deliver.
MITRE is seeking a Lab Manager who can leverage their technical and leadership experience manage the Edge Lab’s ongoing projects and enhance the lab capability to meet new challenges. The Lab Manager should have a technical degree in Electrical Engineer, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related STEM field and practical experience running an electronic systems (or similar) laboratory. The ideal candidate will have experience in shaping work to meet sponsor challenges, recognizing potential solutions, and assembling teams and project plans that can deliver those solutions on time and within budget.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Develop and execute a CSH Lab strategy that:
Aligns to Sponsor and MITRE strategies (Division, Center, and Corporate)
Identifies and assembles requisite laboratory capabilities
Works with Managing Directors and Project Leads to develop lab focused work
Tracks all work across CSH Labs
Engage regularly with Managing Directors and Project Leads to understand their critical mission challenges and priorities and to shape work towards the lab
Develop Annual business plan with prioritized investments (Lab and Capital) requests
Maintain awareness of current capabilities, skills, facilities, & tools
Initiate, review, and/or strengthen center wide innovation proposals
Champion and recommend internal proposals
Maintain active work pipelines
Maintain active working relationship with Department Managers, Program Managers, and Project Leads across the center
Champion for a broad set of related technical and operational areas - infrastructure, capability development, best execution practices (methods, tools, reviews)
Shape project work to address our sponsor’s most critical mission challenges and alignment with the center wide strategy
Independently bring new innovative solutions to sponsor challenges and strategically advocate for new approaches that could impact future acquisitions
Effective communicator and collaborator across internal and external organizations (industry, academia, FFRDC, and government).
Lead efforts to shape Center for Securing the Homeland (CSH) investments
Actively participate in identifying equipment needed across the lab
Make and monitor schedules, budgets, work plans, and contingency plans
Provide guidance and mentorship to junior staff members to facilitate their understanding of projects and develop their technical proficiency
Develop a thorough understanding of the sponsors’ mission, environment, and critical challenges
Conduct technical work, including project leadership and management
Operate autonomously and accept high level tasking
Willingness to travel (up to 20%)
Basic Qualifications:
Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
The ideal candidate should have a wide range of experience in systems integration, software development, signal and image processing, machine learning or artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, analytics, networking, RF communications, and cloud technologies
Proven experience running and building a systems integration lab
Engineering, Applied Math, IT, Computer Science, or related STEM degree
5 years of leadership experience
Must have an active Secret Clearance
A technical background in one or more of the following:
Data Analytics
Cyber Investigative Technologies
Surveillance Systems
Operational Research, Modeling and Simulation, or related discipline
C4ISR Systems Engineering, Test and Evaluation, Communication Systems, or related discipline
Systems integration
Software development
Signal and image processing
RF communications
Cloud technologies
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.
Preferred Qualifications:
Current active DoD Top Secret / SCI Clearance or DHS Fitness
Knowledge of current MITRE work programs
Experience in digital communications theory, detection and estimation theory, RF modulation techniques, error correction coding, spread spectrum techniques, multiple access techniques, and signal processing
Demonstrated success in the area of workforce development, hiring, and management
Proven experience engaging senior sponsors with successful impacts and outcomes, and establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships
Demonstrated success in the area of work development, shaping, and execution
Work experience with DHS, specifically USSS, ICE, and USCG
Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills to support individual, team, and customer-related interaction
Demonstrated success in developing and delivering high-quality technical products under direct projects that result in accomplishment of sponsor outcomes
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
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
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