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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, 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, U.S Citizenship is required.
- 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
Commitment to Non-DiscriminationAll 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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