Cyber Intelligence Engineer

The MITRE Corporation

$172K — $259K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in cyber or signals intelligence, cybersecurity, or related fields with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years with a Master’s; or 5 years with a PhD; or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with USCYBERCOM and intelligence agencies, and familiarity with their operations.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills for effective mentoring and collaboration.
  • Familiarity with SIGINT, all-source intelligence databases, and analytic tools.
  • Experience in capability development guidance and integration processes.
  • Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a Polygraph; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

  • Apply cyber intelligence expertise to assist sponsors with critical cyber-related problems.
  • Guide sponsors in enhancing their cyber intelligence capabilities and programs.
  • Review and recommend best practices for cyber tools and methodologies, including AI integration.
  • Conduct research and development to advance cyber intelligence capabilities.
  • Collaborate with government, industry, and academia to address complex national security challenges.

Benefits

  • Work closely with government, industry, and academics to drive impactful solutions.
  • Opportunities for leadership in innovative cyber intelligence initiatives.
  • Collaboration across MITRE to shape cutting-edge cybersecurity capabilities.
  • Support for advancing your skills and knowledge in a national security context.
Full 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.


Basic Qualifications:
  • 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, subordinate JFHQ-Cs, 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, 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:
  • 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


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:
$172,800 - $216,000 - $259,200 Annual

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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