Principal Cyber Intelligence Engineer

MITRE; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 173,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE in Fort Meade, MD, seeks a Principal Cyber Intelligence Engineer to advance cyber threat intelligence across government and private sponsors. You will lead projects, shape analysis programs, and guide teams in applying state-of-the-art CTI methods.

Join MITRE’s Cyber Threat Intelligence department to drive research, collaboration across MITRE, and practical threat insights. This role requires Top Secret clearance and on-site presence four days a week.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Knowledge of adversary tradecraft and cyber operations as a tool of statecraft.
• Experience with U.S. government cybersecurity agencies and intelligence relationships.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities with diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated MITRE ATT&CK usage in operational environments.
• Familiarity with all-source intelligence databases and analytic tools.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain Top Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship required.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Responsibilities

• Apply cyber intelligence expertise to sponsor problems, from defensive cyber ops to critical infrastructure.
• Explain how cyber intelligence fits mission needs and key security functions.
• Guide sponsors in building cyber intelligence capabilities and programs.
• Review sponsor tools and recommend best practices and AI integrations.
• Propose R&D to advance CTI state of the art.
• Contribute to MITRE ATT&CK to help the cybersecurity community.
• Demonstrate expertise in intrusion, malware, threat actor profiling, infrastructure, and campaigns.
• Evaluate CTI tools, data sources, automation, AI/ML to improve collection and analysis.
• Develop approaches to integrating CTI with threat hunting, detection, incident response, and risk analysis.

Skills

Adversary tradecraft

MITRE ATT&CK expertise

Leadership & mentoring

Threat intelligence analysis

Stakeholder communication

Research & development

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs)

AI/ML in CTI

CTI tools & data sources

Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.

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&CK 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&CK within operational environments and other structured frameworks and analytic techniques (e.g., Diamond Model).
• Familiarity with all-source intelligence databases and analytic tools.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret 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&CK 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)

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s)

Top Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint

$172,800 - $216,000 - $259,200 Annual

Work Location Type

Onsite

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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