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Period of Work: May-August 2025

Full-Time: 40 hours a week

Location: Huntsville, Alabama

In Office Requirement: 5 days a week onsite

Clearance Requirement: Will be submitted for DOD Secret Clearance

MITRE’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) program division is seeking a Systems Engineering Intern to join the Weapons Systems Department for Summer 2025. The MITRE MDA division focuses on the ground-based sensors, space systems, interceptors, fire control, and advanced development programs within the Missile Defense System. Our primary areas of concentration include defense and space systems, sensors, systems integration, systems engineering, cyber security, modeling and simulation, analysis, and architecture development.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside and learn from a wide range of nationally recognized subject matter experts who work directly with our sponsors as trusted advisors in shaping the Nation’s Missile Defense System.

Our MITRE MDA experts leverage deep technical knowledge to perform modeling and simulation data analysis of aerospace systems, evaluate statistics, characterize performance, identify phenomenology, and support requirement compliance assessment and development. Current MITRE efforts include radiation survivability engineering for across the MDS and product development for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) and the GMD Weapon System (GWS) battle management software.

As an Intern working in Model Based System Engineering, you will work with a team to apply your knowledge and gain experience with one or more of the following:

• Strategic missile defense concepts of operations and game theory

• Aerospace vehicle operations including rocket propulsion, guidance, navigation, and control; communication, and sensors (e.g. radar, telescope, etc.)

• Software modeling and simulation of strategic missile defense systems

• Monte Carlo simulations and performance analysis

• Software and documentation organization to promote team collaboration and user serviceability

• Development of visualization products for effective presentation of complex topics (e.g. charts, images, and videos)

• Briefing slide design and oration narrative techniques to effectively communicate complex topics to an intended audience

Basic Qualifications:

• Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship

• Knowledge of MATLAB/Python

• Sustained excellence in academic performance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience having applied systems engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or similar learning to an internship or research/lab position

• Hard skills/Tools: MATLAB, Python, or complementary programming language

• Hard skills/Advanced Tools: Parallel, distributed, or cloud processing

• Academic/Statistics: Monte Carlo simulation, or statistical and stochastic concepts

• Academic/Mathematics: Calculus, linear algebra, or differential equations

• Academic/Engineering: Newtonian physics (statics, dynamics) or Galilean physics (coordinate transformation, orbital mechanics)

• Understanding of Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) or Object-oriented programming (OOP)

  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

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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