Senior Offensive Security Engineer - Top Secret/SCI

Mitre Corporation; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE Corporation is seeking an offensive security engineer to advance adversary emulation, threat emulation, and red teaming. The role focuses on building cutting-edge capabilities and guiding government sponsors in applying offensive security to improve cyber defense.

You will contribute to ATT&CK Evaluations and Caldera, leveraging AI to push the state of the art in cyber operations and threat intelligence. This onsite role requires top-level clearance and deep collaboration across teams.

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.
• Experience creating and using offensive security tools, malware implants, and other red team capabilities in one or more programming languages.
• Demonstrated ability to independently deliver adversary emulation capabilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting technical analysis in written products and presentations.
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph 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.

Responsibilities

• Use your skills as an offensive security engineer and knowledge of adversary behaviors to build and emulate the cutting-edge capabilities of real-world threats
• Use AI to advance the state of the art in cyber operations, purple teaming, and cyber threat intelligence
• Use your understanding of cyber intelligence to build products, perform R&D, and help sponsors solve their hardest CTI problems
• Propose and lead research to improve the state of the art of cyber operations
• Participate in, define, or lead offensive security engagements to show blue teams how to respond to real-world adversaries
• Use your knowledge of adversary behavior to advance ATT&CK, Caldera, and other MITRE efforts

Skills

Offensive security tools

Malware implants

Programming languages

Adversary emulation

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ATT&CK

Caldera

MITRE CTI tooling

Job description

MITRE Corporation is seeking an offensive security engineer to advance adversary emulation, threat emulation, and red teaming. The role focuses on building cutting-edge capabilities and guiding government sponsors in applying offensive security to improve cyber defense.

You will contribute to ATT&CK Evaluations and Caldera, leveraging AI to push the state of the art in cyber operations and threat intelligence. This onsite role requires top-level clearance and deep collaboration across teams.