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Summary:

The Sr. Principal Chief Engineer is responsible for partnering with leadership to deliver high impact outcomes within a mission function or technical specialty. The Sr. Principal Chief Engineer will drive the technical quality of the work program and lead the ongoing evolution of technical capabilities, experimentation capabilities, and exploration within the mission function or technical specialty.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Plans, develops, and oversees a portion of the Division’s sponsor strategic outcomes

• Supports the Director by providing specific sponsor/program knowledge and expertise

• In partnership with the Director, Department Managers and PLs, develops close working relationships with sponsor counterparts

• In partnership with Director and Department Managers, develops and shapes a work program to achieve specific sponsor strategic outcomes

• Develops and shapes a work program to achieve specific sponsor strategic outcomes

• Accountable for strategic work‐shaping opportunities consistent with work program strategy

• Collaborates with Divisions and Centers to leverage related activities, use of shared resources, and re‐use of existing products

• Ensures the hiring, development, and shaping of the required skills, capabilities, and diversity of the department’s workforce through effective hiring, ongoing coaching and staff development, and monitoring of staff engagement

• Effectively engages staff who fall short of expectations & initiates appropriate and timely actions to address poor performance

• Ensures product technical quality for all work assigned to their department as identified in the work plan

• Works with project leaders to ensure that all staff are appropriately assigned to projects and fully planned

• Represents the needs and perspectives of staff to Division leadership

• Advocates for Division competencies and establishes new work within the Division

• Provide technical domain-specific knowledge, leadership, and influence internally and externally across multiple stakeholders to move the mission outcome forward.

Key Responsibilities:

• MITRE’s Good Growth Strategy, Vision and Mission: Effectively executes the strategy, vision, and mission

• Work Program Definition and Oversight: Internalizes and execution of strategic outcomes

• Multi-level Sponsor Engagement: Sponsor/stakeholder engagements or enterprise-wide engagements

• Develop Our People: Acquires, develops, coaches, leads, and enables an inclusive and diverse workforce

• Collaboration and Communications: Effectively collaborates and communicates with sponsors and stakeholders or with internal stakeholders’ enterprise wide

• The MITRE Brand: Ensures product or program quality and is aligned to MITRE Brand

• Good Steward of Resources: Effectively manages the operations of a department (revenue, costs, people, etc.)

Key Accountabilities:

• Day‐to‐day interface with sponsors or internal customers to develop trusted working relationships

• All aspects of project or department performance, including staff selection, technical quality, programmatic support, and budgetary development/execution and are supported by their management

• High technical quality of products or programs

• Ensures delivery of regular, constructive feedback and developmental support to Project Leaders or to staff

• Development of future MITRE leaders

• People have clear expectations and goals that contribute to important sponsor or enterprise strategic outcomes as well as project level outcomes

Key Cultural/Behavior Attributes:

• Speed

• Risk-taking

• Adaptability

• Grace and respect

• Collaboration

Key Leadership Effectiveness Attributes:

• Innovative

• Strategic

• Persuasive

• Excitement

• Communication

• Delegation

• Feedback

• Management focus

Key Organizational Criteria:

• Leads a department or function that has significant impact for sponsors, partners, and/or MITRE enterprise

• Division or function provides multiple services or complex products/ solutions

• Has multiple direct reports or leads a function

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• History of successful ML production operations including, but not limited to, industry-standard tools, scaling, ethics/fairness, governance, automation, testing, monitoring

• Experience in one or more areas of computer science, such as Natural Language Processing/Understanding, Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Privacy, Trust & Safety, Software Engineering or similar

• Proficiency with typical data science tools/technologies such as R, Python, Java, SQL, and Git

• Familiarity with data architecture and data management concepts and strategies, such as the data lifecycle, data stewardship and governance

• An interest in deeply understanding government sponsors’ business needs and challenges

• Experience working with or leading multidisciplinary teams

• History of participating in or managing robust research programs

• Ability to tailor communications to provide the appropriate level of detail to the audience, whether technical or executive

• Must have an IRS Moderate Suitability (US government clearance)

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert-level proficiency in at least one major programming language (C++, Java, Python) and one Deep Learning Framework (MXNet, Tensor Flow, etc.).

• Familiarity with Big Data systems such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, etc.

• Familiarity with DevOps/MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., Autoscaling, containers, performance tuning and optimization) Familiarity with agile software development processes (e.g., scrum, user stories)

Our culture is a tangible asset that endures through our people and leaders. At MITRE, our leaders must also demonstrate and continually develop a consistent set of shared Leadership Competencies:

• Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.

• Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using a national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.

• Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities, built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE’s impact in solving problems for a safer world.

• Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders—and desired outcomes—in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.

• Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Suitability - IRS

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Suitability - IRS

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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