Cyber Intelligence Engineer

MITRE Corporation
McLean, VA, United States
5 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Starter
Compensation
$172,800.0 - $216,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Business Analytics Applications Signals Intelligence Databases Network Architecture Reverse Engineering Cyber Threat Analysis Cyber Warfare

Job description

MITRE’s Strategic Non-Kinetic Effects Mission Division is seeking a Principal Cyber Intelligence Engineer to join our team and apply your skills in support of our government sponsors. You will advance our research and innovation in cyber intelligence, lead projects and tasks, and collaborate across MITRE to help shape our work and capability. Our staff work with government, industry, and academia, enabling the public and private sector to make better decisions and implement solutions to complex challenges of national and global significance.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Apply cyber intelligence expertise to help our sponsors solve their hardest problems, ranging from supporting cyber acquisition decisions, assessing threats to weapons systems and critical infrastructure, and analyzing intelligence reporting to enable cyber effects.
  • Guide sponsors in building and advancing cyber intelligence capabilities and programs.
  • Review sponsor tools and recommend best practices, analytic methodologies, and opportunities to integrate AI.
  • Propose and perform research and development to advance the state of the art in cyber intelligence.

Requirements

  • Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience in cyber or signals intelligence, cybersecurity, and related fields with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or PhD with 5 years’ experience; or the equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
  • Experience with USCYBERCOM, intelligence agencies, authorities, and relationships.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills to effectively mentor teams and collaborate with diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with SIGINT and all-source intelligence databases and analytic tools.
  • Experience with capability development guidance, acceptance, and integration
  • Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
  • Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements for a clearance, U.S Citizenship is required.
  • This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site., * Experience with intelligence gain loss and equity analysis
  • Hands on technical expertise in any of the following additional areas: offensive cyber operations, cyber effects and reverse engineering, and associated staffing and budgeting processes.
  • Familiarity with C2 hardware and software.
  • Familiarity with supporting basic, intermediate, and advanced target development.
  • Familiarity with vulnerability identification
  • Familiarity with network architecture analysis

About the company

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.

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