Senior Cyber Intelligence Engineer — National Security & AI Defense

Mitre Corporation; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia is seeking a Senior Cyber Intelligence Engineer to advance research and operations for government and private sponsors. You will apply cyber intelligence expertise, lead projects, and collaborate across MITRE to shape capabilities in threat analytics.

The role requires 5+ years with a Bachelor’s degree, active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph, and on-site work four days a week.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Demonstrated application of MITRE ATT&CK® within operational environments and other structured frameworks and analytic techniques (e.g., Diamond Model).
• Knowledge of adversary tradecraft and their utilization of cyber operations as a tool of military force and statecraft.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting technical analysis in written products and presentations.

Responsibilities

• Apply cyber intelligence expertise to help 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 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.

Skills

5+ years experience with Bachelor’s

MITRE ATT&CK familiarity

Adversary tradecraft knowledge

Excellent written and oral comms

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Diamond Model

Job description

MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia is seeking a Senior Cyber Intelligence Engineer to advance research and operations for government and private sponsors. You will apply cyber intelligence expertise, lead projects, and collaborate across MITRE to shape capabilities in threat analytics.

The role requires 5+ years with a Bachelor’s degree, active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph, and on-site work four days a week.