The MITRE Corporation's National Space Program operates at the intersection of technological innovation and deep domain expertise. Our mission is to engineer end-to-end solutions for organizations developing, deploying, and operating next-generation space capabilities. By leveraging systems engineering, advanced analytics, and cross-cutting research, we mitigate risk and accelerate modernization across the entire space life cycle. Ultimately, the National Space Program serves as a foundation for global mission assurance. By reinforcing the digital and physical infrastructure underpinning space superiority, we empower operators to execute their objectives with absolute confidence-ensuring the success of critical national security, civil, and defense missions.
Roles & Responsibilities:- Define and develop Space Systems cybersecurity requirements using systems engineering principles
- Develop Space system cybersecurity capabilities to apply into architecture-level constructs accounting for expected system behavior
- Define how cybersecurity capabilities are evaluated and validated within Space systems
- Define measurable outcomes for cybersecurity effectiveness (e.g., containment, detection, mission impact)
- Integrate with MBSE/modeling teams to ensure accurate representation of cybersecurity capabilities, trust boundaries, and enforcement points, with full traceability from capability through architecture to system elements.
Basic Qualifications:- Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or 5 years and a PhD
- Bachelor's or higher degree from an accredited technical program in engineering, computer science or other applicable degree.
- Demonstrated experience applying cybersecurity to embedded, mission-critical, or constrained system environments
- Experience translating cybersecurity into system architecture decisions
- Experience in defining how system solutions are evaluated, including performance under failure or degraded conditions
- Active TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
- U.S. Citizenship required
- This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site
Preferred Qualifications: - Advanced degree in applicable STEM areas
- Experience with space systems or other complex systems
- Experience applying novel cybersecurity approaches to constrained, autonomous, or disconnected systems
- Experience working with MBSE/DE and Modeling/Simulation teams
- Experience with threat-informed engineering, resilience analysis, or mission assurance
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
