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If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us. Department Summary: The Performance and Solutions Engineering Department, within the MITRE Center for Securing the Homeland (CSH), applies broad homeland security, intelligence, public safety, and resilience expertise, a deep understanding of risk, and a deep understanding of our sponsors' challenges to develop and advance innovative solutions which enable current and future homeland security operations from the tactical to the enterprise levels. The CSH provides systems engineering and integration support to planning, programming, acquisition (including concept exploration and early prototyping), and evaluation of capabilities for homeland security as well as modeling and analysis of intersections across public safety, public health, and One Health-relevant supply chains including those critical to food and agriculture resilience. Job Description: The candidate will work in multidisciplinary project teams comprising engineers, economists, operations researchers, computational social scientists, data scientists, and domain experts to provide an analytic basis for decision-making. The ideal candidate will have a background in one or more of the following: agriculture and resource economics, environmental economics, supply chains, production analysis, critical infrastructure, or transportation. Typical products for project teams include global-to-local supply chain models, commodity or regional risk assessments, and risk reduction or resilience alternatives analysis. 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 at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience + Mathematical modeling + Economic analysis + Development and analysis of large data sets + Knowledge of economic data sets such as but not limited to: Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Census, IHS Markit, FRED, UN Comtrade, Bureau of Labor Statistics + Strong attention and accountability to detail; strong oral and written communication skills + The ability to work across diverse teams, departments, and other organizations with varied backgrounds in a collaborative environment + Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance – DHS Fitness + This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site Preferred Qualifications: + Experience in agriculture and resource economics, environmental economics, supply chains, production analysis, critical infrastructure, or transportation + Experience working with government sponsors and agencies + PhD, PhD Candidate in Economics This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Fitness - DHS This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): None Work Location Type: Hybrid MITRE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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