Minimum 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 8 years with a Master's, or a PhD with 5 years' experience.
Strong knowledge of adversary tradecraft and cyber operations.
Experience with U.S. government cybersecurity and intelligence agencies.
Proven leadership and communication skills for mentoring and collaboration.
Demonstrated application of MITRE ATT&CK within operational environments.
Familiarity with all-source intelligence databases and analytic tools.
Active Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government issued Security Clearance.
Responsibilities
Apply cyber intelligence expertise to solve complex problems for sponsors.
Help sponsors integrate cyber intelligence into their mission needs.
Guide the development of cyber intelligence capabilities and programs.
Review tools and recommend best practices and methodologies.
Conduct research and development to advance cyber intelligence.
Utilize MITRE ATT&CK to enhance understanding of threat behaviors.
Evaluate and apply CTI tools and emerging technologies for intelligence improvement.
Develop innovative methods to integrate cyber threat intelligence with various security functions.
Benefits
Collaborative work environment with government and private sector sponsors.
Opportunities for research and innovation in cyber intelligence.
Mentorship and leadership development.
Access to advanced tools and technologies in cybersecurity.
Engagement with a diverse range of stakeholders across sectors.
Full Job Description
Department Summary:
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 mission needs 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&CK4 to help the global cybersecurity community understand threat behaviors.
Demonstrate expertise in technical threat analysis, including intrusion analysis, malware analysis, threat actor profiling, infrastructure analysis, and adversary campaign tracking.
Evaluate and apply CTI tools, platforms, data sources, automation, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to improve intelligence collection, analysis, correlation, and dissemination.
Develop innovative approaches to integrating cyber threat intelligence with threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, and cyber risk analysis.
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 a PhD with 5 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work 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&CK4 within operational environments and other structured frameworks and analytic techniques (e.g., Diamond Model).
Familiarity with all-source intelligence databases and analytic tools.
Must have an active Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance. 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
Advanced knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK4 and adversary behavioral analysis
Experience integrating CTI with threat hunting, detection engineering, and incident response.
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI
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
Salary compensation range and midpoint: $172,800 - $216,000 - $259,200 Annual
Work Location Type: Onsite
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