Principal Cyber Intelligence Engineer

The MITRE Corporation

• $172K — $259K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 10+ years in cyber intelligence or related fields, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong understanding of adversary tradecraft in cyber operations.
  • Experience engaging with U.S. government and intelligence agencies.
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills for mentoring and collaboration.
  • Proficient in applying MITRE ATT&CK framework in operational settings.
  • Knowledgeable in all-source intelligence databases and analytic tools.
  • Requires active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Responsibilities

  • Apply cyber intelligence to tackle complex problems for sponsors.
  • Guide organizations on integrating cyber intelligence into their mission.
  • Develop and enhance cyber intelligence capabilities for sponsors.
  • Assess and improve sponsor tools with best practices and AI integration.
  • Research and advance innovations in cyber intelligence.
  • Contribute to the MITRE ATT&CK framework for global community insights.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for research and innovation in cyber intelligence.
  • Collaborative environment with government, industry, and academia.
  • Roles that shape national and global cybersecurity solutions.
Full Job Description
MITRE's Cyber Threat Intelligence department is seeking a Principal 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 fits into their organization, whether as a core part of their mission or as an important function in their security organization.
  • 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.
  • Use or contribute to MITRE ATT&CK® to help the global cybersecurity community understand threat behaviors.
Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience in cyber intelligence, cybersecurity, and related fields; or the equivalent combination of higher education and/or real-world experience.
  • Knowledge of adversary tradecraft and their utilization of cyber operations as a tool of military force and statecraft.
  • Experience with U.S. government cybersecurity agencies, intelligence agencies, authorities, and relationships.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills to effectively mentor teams and collaborate with diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated application of MITRE ATT&CK® within operational environments and other structured frameworks and analytic techniques (e.g., Diamond Model).
  • Familiarity with all-source intelligence databases and analytic tools.
  • This position requires candidates to possess, at minimum, an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with 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:
  • Experience building and managing CTI teams and overseeing the production of strategic, operational, and tactical products and services.
  • Experience with Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs), including configuring TIPs according to stakeholder requirements.
  • 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: $172,800 - $216,000 - $259,200 Annual Work Location Type: Onsite

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