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Senior Cyber Intelligence Engineer

The MITRE Corporation
Posted 2 months ago, valid for 13 days
Location

Fort Meade, MD, US

Salary

$129,200 - $193,800 per year

Contract type

Full Time

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  • MITRE is seeking a Senior Cyber Intelligence Engineer to join its Cyber Threat Intelligence department, focusing on addressing complex challenges in cyber intelligence for government and private sector sponsors.
  • Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, as well as knowledge of adversary tradecraft and cyber operations.
  • The position requires excellent communication skills and a Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph clearance, with a commitment to working onsite at least four days a week.
  • Salary compensation ranges from $129,200 to $193,800 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.
  • MITRE offers a unique work environment that emphasizes meaningful contributions while ensuring employee well-being and professional development opportunities.
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.

MITRE’s Cyber Threat Intelligence department is seeking a Senior Cyber Intelligence Engineer to join our team and apply your skills in support of our government and private sector 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 enabling defensive cyber operations, securing weapons systems, assessing threats to critical infrastructure, and analyzing intelligence reporting to enable cyber effects.  
  • Help sponsors understand how cyber intelligence supports their mission requirements, whether as a core part of their mission or as an important function in their security organization.  
  • 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.  

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of relevant experience; or the equivalent combination of higher education and real-world experience 
  • Knowledge of adversary tradecraft and their utilization of cyber operations as a tool of military force and statecraft.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting technical analysis in written products and presentations 
  • This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph
  • Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
  • This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Hands on technical expertise in any of the following additional areas: adversary emulation, defensive cyber operations, cyber analytics & malware analysis, cyber deception and adversary engagement, cyber effects and reverse engineering, and cyber forensics.
  • Familiarity with adversarial C2 hardware and software.
  • Familiarity with supporting basic, intermediate, and advanced target development.
  • Familiarity with vulnerability identification
  • Familiarity with network architecture analysis

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

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

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

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$129,200 - $161,500 - $193,800 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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