AI-Driven Defensive Cyber Engineer (Blue Team)

The MITRE Corporation; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE is seeking a highly experienced cybersecurity professional to join the Defensive Cyber Operations team in McLean, VA. The role blends hands-on defense with AI-enabled research to design, implement, and evaluate next-generation capabilities using ML, large language models, autonomous systems, and advanced analytics to protect national infrastructure.

The position requires active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph clearance, five days on-site, and collaboration with government sponsors to advance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• Significant experience with Splunk and cloud computing.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity operations and principles.
• Experience in at least one: SOCs, threat hunting, detection engineering, malware analysis, or cyber deception.
• Must have active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Combining cybersecurity domain expertise and contemporary data science skills to enhance adversary detection, network defense, and Security Operations Center (SOC) process improvement.
• Developing AI-enabled cybersecurity tools for anomaly detection, behavioral analytics, malware analysis, and adversary emulation.
• Researching emerging AI techniques (e.g., machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, reinforcement learning) and assessing their applicability to defensive cyber missions.
• Using MITRE ATT&CK to hunt the adversary and build TTP-based defenses.
• Using detection engineering to create security analytics and dashboards in Splunk or Elastic and integrating new data feeds
• Automating container environments via CI/CD
• Acting as a trusted advisor to the Federal Government

Skills

SOC operations

Threat hunting

Detection engineering

Malware analysis

Cyber deception

Cybersecurity principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related field

Tools

Splunk

Cloud computing

MITRE ATTACK

Job description

MITRE is seeking a highly experienced cybersecurity professional to join the Defensive Cyber Operations team in McLean, VA. The role blends hands-on defense with AI-enabled research to design, implement, and evaluate next-generation capabilities using ML, large language models, autonomous systems, and advanced analytics to protect national infrastructure.

The position requires active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph clearance, five days on-site, and collaboration with government sponsors to advance