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Design and develop front-end web applications with strong UX focus for sensitive environments. | Senior front-end developer with UX expertise, security clearance, and experience in user-centered design and collaboration. | 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. Department Summary: MITRE is seeking a Senior UX/UI Engineer to support high-priority IC initiatives requiring front-end web application development. This role requires an active TS/SCI with a polygraph. In this role, you will collaborate with experienced engineers, designers, researchers, and stakeholders to help frame problems, understand mission needs, and translate user insights into intuitive and effective solutions. You will contribute to stakeholder engagement activities—such as discussions, feedback sessions, and iterative design reviews—to ensure solutions align with user and mission objectives. Roles & Responsibilities: The selected candidate will serve as a technical subject matter expert responsible for designing, documenting, developing, and refining interactive, visually engaging, and responsive front-end web applications and interaction designs within highly sensitive Intelligence Community environments. This position supports enterprise-level IC challenges related to technology modernization, data integration, analytic enablement, and secure collaboration. Responsibilities include: • Collaborate directly with IC sponsors and MITRE technical teams to translate complex mission workflows into clear, accessible, and mission-effective user interfaces that support analyst decision-making and reduce cognitive burden. • Ability to work closely with human factors engineers, UX designers, researchers, project leaders, and sponsors to create software prototypes using current front-end technologies and best practices. • Lead or support development of enterprise-grade application front ends for a variety of mission needs including data visualization, workflow automation, analytics and geospatial displays. • Produce and maintain design-system components, interaction specifications, accessibility annotations, and developer-ready handoff documentation as necessary for sponsor engagement. • Ensure performance, usability, and accessibility of application designs. • Present designs and technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Mentor junior developers/designers and contribute to department-wide technical standards. The primary responsibilities of this position must be carried out in person in McLean, Virginia or Bethesda, Maryland. The successful candidate will establish regular presence at MITRE and sponsor locations and may be required to travel within the National Capital Region. Basic Qualifications: • 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. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, HCI, UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field. • Active TS/SCI clearance with a Polygraph (required at time of hire). • Demonstrated experience as a Front-end web application developer with strong experience in UI/UX, interaction design, visual design, and usability. • Proficiency in front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, D3, JavaScript Frameworks such as Angular, Vue, React, and/or similar libraries • Experience with UI-first rapid prototyping and development approaches. • Experience with CSS frameworks such as Tailwind or Material Design-based libraries. • Deep understanding of usability, accessibility, visual hierarchy, and user-centered design principles. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience with geospatial application design (ESRI, open-source geospatial libraries). • Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular and HTMx. • Experience developing web applications with different architectures including server-side rendering (SSR), single page applications (SPAs), and hybrid applications (interactive islands pattern). • Experience working within Linux-based environments, including command line and shell scripting. • Experience using version control systems (Git) and managing code reviews and releases. • Experience developing applications within Intelligence Community environments. • Experience with AWS-managed services and cloud-native architectures. • Experience producing high-quality software documentation and design artifacts. • Familiarity with alternative JavaScript runtimes such as Bun or Deno. This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph 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/Polygraph Salary compensation range and midpoint: $122,400 - $153,000 - $183,600 Annual Work Location Type: Onsite Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org for general support and collegerecruiting@mitre.org for intern positions. 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Lead systems engineering activities to design, integrate, and transition complex mission systems supporting national security. | Requires 5+ years experience in systems engineering, MBSE and TSE methods, strong communication skills, and active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph. | 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 Systems and Operations Department (L626) within MITRE’s Systems Engineering Division in the Center for Engineering and Analysis delivers innovative, mission-focused solutions using a multidisciplinary systems engineering approach to address sponsor challenges critical to national security missions. We advance engineering rigor, operational relevance, and mission effectiveness across complex systems and enterprises, with core focus areas in Domain Systems Engineering, Lifecycle Systems Engineering, and Acquisition Systems Engineering. Our teams develop, assess, and transition engineering solutions, provide strategic technical vision, and deliver data-informed recommendations that enable sponsor mission success from tactical through enterprise levels. Roles & Responsibilities: The Systems and Operations Department is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to support government sponsor mission needs across complex and evolving national security environments. The selected candidate will help define, design, architect, integrate, and transition complex mission systems by applying both Traditional Systems Engineering (TSE) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods. The role requires the ability to work across technical, operational, acquisition, and programmatic stakeholders to translate mission needs into executable system concepts, architectures, requirements, roadmaps, integration plans, acquisition artifacts, and engineering recommendations. The selected candidate will be expected to: • Apply systems engineering principles across the system development lifecycle, including mission analysis, concept development, system design, architecture definition, requirements development, integration, verification, validation, deployment planning, and technical transition • Lead or support system design and architecture activities by translating sponsor mission needs, operational constraints, and capability gaps into system concepts, functional designs, technical approaches, and implementation options • Develop, assess, and refine system architectures for complex mission systems, including operational views, functional architectures, logical and physical architectures, interfaces, data flows, dependencies, and integration points • Apply TSE and MBSE methods to capture system behavior, structure, requirements, interfaces, constraints, verification relationships, trade space, risks, and technical decisions • Conduct stakeholder engagements, workshops, interviews, and technical working groups to elicit, analyze, document, and validate clear, testable, and traceable mission, system, product, interface, performance, security, and operational requirements • Conduct engineering studies, trade analyses, and gap assessments to evaluate current-state systems, operational processes, technology limitations, interoperability challenges, and opportunities to improve mission outcomes • Support integration, test, verification, validation, deployment planning, and technical transition activities for complex systems, including integration sequencing, test objectives, success criteria, interface dependencies, and deployment readiness considerations • Advise government sponsors and program managers on mission context, capability needs, technical priorities, system roadmaps, technology insertion opportunities, acquisition strategies, and engineering approaches that support program objectives • Support acquisition planning and execution by contributing to Statements of Work, Statements of Objectives, Performance Work Statements, market research, acquisition strategies, evaluation criteria, technical evaluation plans, source selection documentation, and vendor assessments • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop and present technical artifacts, architecture briefings, decision papers, trade study results, requirements packages, interface documentation, and engineering recommendations for sponsor and leadership review Basic Qualifications: • 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 • Experience applying systems engineering practices to complex technical, operational, or mission-focused systems • Experience with system design, system architecture modeling, requirements development, interface analysis, integration planning, verification and validation, and technical documentation • Familiarity with both MBSE and traditional systems engineering approaches, including requirements analysis, functional decomposition, interface control, trade studies, risk analysis, technical reviews, and engineering decision support • Ability to develop or review architecture products, requirements specifications, trade studies, technical plans, acquisition artifacts, and engineering recommendations • Ability to work directly with government sponsors, program managers, technical teams, acquisition stakeholders, and mission users • Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to define ambiguous problems, structure technical options, and brief technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences • Ability to work both collaboratively and independently in a dynamic sponsor environment • Willingness to work at various sponsor locations in the Northern Virginia area as needed • Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph • Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance. • This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site Preferred Qualifications: • Knowledge of intelligence operations, the intelligence lifecycle, and intelligence systems • Experience applying MBSE methods using modeling languages and tools, such as SysML, Cameo, MagicDraw, Rhapsody, Sparx EA, or similar platforms • Experience developing SysML diagrams, including block definition diagrams, internal block diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state machine diagrams, requirement diagrams, and parametric models • Experience developing or applying systems architecture frameworks, architecture views, interface models, operational models, or enterprise architecture products • Experience advising the federal government on acquisition lifecycle activities, including SOW/SOO development, market research, acquisition planning, technical evaluations, source selection support, or adoption of innovative acquisition approaches • Experience supporting system integration, test planning, verification and validation, deployment readiness planning, or technical transition of mission systems • Experience with digital engineering, mission engineering, enterprise architecture, software-intensive systems, cloud-based systems, data platforms, cybersecurity, or command-and-control systems • Experience leading technical tasks, facilitating stakeholder workshops, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams, or advising senior technical and program leadership • Experience researching, assessing, prototyping, integrating, or supporting the transition of mission technologies such as secure communication protocols, mobile devices, terrestrial and space-based networking, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, or related technologies This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph 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/Polygraph Salary compensation range and midpoint: $121,200 - $151,500 - $181,800 Annual Work Location Type: Onsite Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org for general support and collegerecruiting@mitre.org for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply. Benefits information may be found here. Copyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.

Design and develop user-centered software solutions collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to improve user experience and mission outcomes. | Requires 4+ years experience with modern front-end technologies, UX design, accessibility standards, and strong communication skills. | 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. Department Summary: The department is seeking a Senior UX/UI Engineer who is passionate about designing and developing user-centered software solutions to address our sponsors' unique challenges. In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of engineers, designers, researchers, and stakeholders to frame complex problems, understand mission needs, and translate user insights into intuitive, scalable, and effective solutions. You will engage directly with sponsors and stakeholders through workshops, design reviews, and iterative feedback sessions to ensure solutions align with user needs and mission objectives. As a Senior UX/UI Engineer at MITRE, you will apply and expand your expertise across UX, UI, front-end engineering, and human-machine teaming while contributing to meaningful projects supporting critical national missions. Our department fosters a collaborative environment that values technical excellence, curiosity, continuous learning, creativity, and a strong commitment to both end users and stakeholders. Our mission is to improve the overall user experience of government-facing technologies while promoting accessibility, safety, and operational efficiency across the system lifecycle. As part of the Software Engineering Innovation Center, you will strengthen your software architecture and engineering skills while designing human-centered, user-focused computing capabilities that address the challenges of our sponsors and deliver meaningful, effective user experiences. Roles & Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be expected to: • Collaborate with human factors engineers, UX designers, researchers, project leaders, and sponsors to design and develop user-centered software solutions using modern front-end technologies and engineering best practices. • Advocate for the end-user, ensuring user-centered design principles are consistently applied throughout the software development cycle. • Provide technical guidance to MITRE teams and sponsors, analyzing software implementation, architecture, and application performance. • Design and develop user interfaces for software and web applications, incorporating user research, usability testing, and stakeholder feedback to improve user effectiveness and mission outcomes. • Lead portions of UX and front-end development efforts, ensuring solutions are maintainable, accessible, scalable, and aligned with project objectives. • Mentor and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers on UX engineering, front-end development, and user-centered design best practices. • Develop wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas, while collaborating with cross-functional teams, including software engineers and product managers, to ensure our products meet user needs. • Develop and maintain design systems, UI standards, and reusable front-end components that promote consistency, accessibility, and scalability across applications. • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend approaches that improve user experience and mission effectiveness. • Present design recommendations and technical solutions to project teams, sponsors, and leadership. Basic Qualifications: • Requires 4+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. • Experience applying modern software engineering practices including Git-based source control, peer code reviews, Agile development methodologies, automated testing, and CI/CD workflows. • Experience developing modern web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and contemporary frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, or similar technologies. • Experience developing accessible web applications that align with WCAG and Section 508 accessibility standards. • Demonstrated experience using UX design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or equivalent platforms. • Demonstrated portfolio or the ability to showcase your UX design work, demonstrating your creativity and problem-solving skills. • Demonstrated ability to evaluate, learn, and apply new technologies to solve complex technical challenges. • Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts, design rationale, and implementation approaches to multidisciplinary teams, sponsors, and stakeholders. • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with colleagues. • High level desire to help our nation solve its most critical challenges. • This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site. Preferred Qualifications: • Preference given to candidates who have completed an advanced degree in technical discipline; including but not limited to Computer Science, Human Centered Engineering, UX/UI. • Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance. • Experience conducting usability studies, contextual inquiry, interviews, or human-centered design activities. • Experience applying human-centered design principles to AI-enabled, decision-support, or mission-critical systems. • Experience developing and maintaining design systems or component libraries. • Strong interpersonal skills, coupled with excellent verbal and written communication abilities. • Entrepreneurial and innovative spirit and the curiosity to explore and push the boundaries of software development and software solutions. This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): None Salary compensation range and midpoint: $129,200 - $161,500 - $193,800 Annual Work Location Type: Onsite It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org for general support and collegerecruiting@mitre.org for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply. Benefits information may be found here. Copyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.

Lead cross-functional teams to prototype and deploy generative AI solutions for government sponsors. | 5+ years experience, Bachelor's degree, proficiency in Python or Java, experience with LLM technology, and ability to obtain DOD Secret clearance. | Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. The Generative and Agentic AI Engineering Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to develop, engineer, and deploy advanced AI capabilities that address complex mission needs for our sponsors. Our department applies generative AI, agentic AI, and AI/ML research and engineering to operational challenges while researching, prototyping, and transitioning innovative technologies to support critical mission objectives for our sponsors. Our work spans generative AI applications, agentic AI system design, AI model fine-tuning and adaptation, knowledge representation and extraction, AI architectures, MLOps/LLMOps, and human language technology (HLT). The department maintains deep expertise in large language models, agentic AI, autonomous AI workflows and data processing pipelines, computational linguistics, knowledge graph construction, identity resolution and AI/GenAI evaluation. Roles & Responsibilities: The position involves researching, developing, evaluating, and integrating generative AI and agentic AI capabilities. Specific responsibilities will include: Work in and provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams to develop and implement AI solutions, including prototype implementation of capabilities that leverage generative AI, large language model technology and agentic AI capabilities Analyze data and language processing needs and recommend innovative solutions that solve mission-critical problems Prototype AI/GenAI systems or components based on analysis of workflow and operational mission needs and deliver prototype solutions into operational spaces/systems using real mission-relevant data Evaluate technology solutions in the context of mission data and workflow needs, and provide actionable recommendations towards workable solutions for critical problems Convey complex ideas to non-technical audiences through briefings and/or white papers Lead or contribute to small technical teams to solve technical challenges by applying GenAI capabilities Leverage MITRE’s Federal AI Sandbox (NVIDIA DGX SuperPod hardware) and AI Platform to support research, development and evaluation of generative AI capabilities Basic Qualifications: Requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, computational linguistics, or related disciplines; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. Demonstrated recent experience with large language model (LLM) technology applications in R&D or operational settings Demonstrated experience in prototyping/developing AI components/systems that align with department capabilities (as described above) Ability to apply state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to data and natural language processing challenges Experience with programming languages such as Java or Python Ability to work independently to learn new technologies, methods, processes, frameworks/platforms, and systems Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret clearance within 12 months from the date of hire Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site Preferred Qualifications: Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, computational linguistics, or related disciplines Track-record of successful deployment of agentic, generative, and HLT systems or components that have been used by customers or stakeholders outside of a lab/experimental setting Experience leading small to medium sized teams to solve practical technical challenges Active DOD security clearance This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret Salary compensation range and midpoint: $143,600 - $179,500 - $215,400 Annual Work Location Type: Hybrid It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org for general support and collegerecruiting@mitre.org for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply. Benefits information may be found here. Copyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.