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Systems Engineer Intern

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
United States, Virginia, Alexandria
5285 Shawnee Road (Show on map)
Jun 11, 2025
Overview

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MTSI is actively searching for a Systems Engineering Intern to join its Systems Engineering Team in the Defense Services Division, leading the design and integration effort for its USAF programs and Research and Development project.

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is a 100% employee-owned engineering services and solutions company that provides high-demand technical expertise in Digital Transformation, Modeling and Simulation, Rapid Capability Development, Test and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, Cybersecurity and Mission Assurance.

MTSI delivers capabilities to solve problems of global importance. Founded in 1993, MTSI today has employees at over 20 offices and field sites worldwide.

For more information about MTSI, please visit www.mtsi-va.com.


Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Duties to be independently executed include but are not limited to:

  • Provide engineering support for program management execution of a United Stated Air Force (USAF) program. Work with program teams to develop program objectives, integrated roadmaps, detailed schedules, and program budgets.
  • Support the development of technical documentation including, but not limited to, statements of work and specifications, leadership briefs, specific engineering briefs related to the subject matter.
  • Assist in milestone planning, tracking, scheduling, briefing preparations, staff coordination, and decision documentation preparation.
  • Gather data, conduct analyses, evaluation, and validations of acquisition programmatic documentation.
  • Help with the development of integration plans and procedures and organize resources to facilitate program transition activities.
  • Help with the development of and communication of roadmaps for programs and associated technologies and product lines.

In this role, you'll be bringing exceptional communication and influencing skills to a dynamic team by:

  • Being well-versed in the V-lifecycle development process and have the ability to apply it to both military system and commercial systems.
  • Using your visionary skills to develop operational concepts for high tech systems for the Department of Defense. Defining the system objectives including use cases and operational requirements.
  • Translating requirements to logical, physical, and digital architectures.
  • Crafting functional flow diagrams, requirements specification, interface control documents and presentations to various stakeholders.
  • Taking initiative on relevant tasks for a given program.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Junior or Senior year in your collegiate academic studies.
  • Working towards degree in Systems Engineering or another Engineering degree.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools.
  • Be a self-starter, thrive in a dynamic environment, can accomplish high-level tasks independently, is skilled in problem definition, and work well with other team members.
  • Basic working knowledge of engineering tools such as Cameo, DOORS would be beneficial.
  • Ability to learn new tools and adopt digital engineering business practices.
  • Some experience with collaboration tools including but not limited to: Confluence and/or Jira would be helpful.
  • Must have excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to clearly translate client technical needs and assimilate project information.

Clearance Requirements:

Ability to obtain/maintain a government security clearance.

Please Note: U.S. Citizenship is required for most MTSI positions.

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