Cyber New Professionals Program

Why Choose MITRE?

At MITRE, you can have both meaningful work and a fulfilling life. We believe in supporting our employees' long-term well-being while tackling significant challenges for the public good.

Program Overview

The MITRE Cyber New Professionals (CNP) Program is designed for staff at the beginning of their cybersecurity careers. It offers structured onboarding, varied project experience, curated training, mentorship, and networking opportunities.

How the Program Works

CNP is a two-year program where participants work on complex cybersecurity challenges alongside experts. They gain hands-on experience, develop new skills, and build a professional network.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop threat-informed, intelligence-enabled solutions using MITRE ATT&CK®, MITRE Engage™, and MITRE Caldera
• Research novel technical ideas, conduct rigorous analysis, and build proofs of concept
• Apply threat-informed cybersecurity principles to protect critical systems and infrastructure
• Model and analyze cyber-physical, physical, human, and organizational systems
• Analyze binaries, firmware, embedded systems, and industrial protocols; conduct vulnerability research, fuzzing, crash analysis, and mitigation assessments
• Develop tested, documented, reproducible research software that integrates cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, systems engineering, and domain expertise
• Collaborate with sponsors, vendors, and academia to advance cybersecurity practices

Focus Areas

• Threat operations and analysis
• Security architecture, trust, and governance
• Critical and connected systems
• Software and device security
• Systems and emerging technology

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or graduate degree in a relevant field, typically less than 2 years of related experience with a related bachelor’s degree
• Hands-on technical experience through employment, internships or co-ops, research laboratories, independent projects, capture-the-flag competitions, or similar work
• Applied knowledge of cybersecurity principles, tools, and devices
• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Top Secret security clearance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills
• Initiative and sound judgment when addressing novel, complex, or ambiguous problems
• Strong organizational skills, including attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple project components

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in any of the following is helpful, but not required:
• Proficiency in one or more scripting or programming languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, or JavaScript
• Advanced cyber threats, adversary methods, static or dynamic analysis, debugging, disassembly, decompilation, instrumentation, emulation, or symbolic analysis
• Vulnerability research, fuzzing, exploitability assessment, exploit development, or protocol security
• SCADA, distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, industrial protocols, or other industrial control technologies and physical processes
• Applied cryptography, authentication and key flows, implementation security, or side-channel analysis
• Embedded, wireless, RF, or cellular technologies and security
• Systems or mission engineering and model-based systems engineering methods such as SysML, UAF, BPMN, or STPA-Sec

Clearance Requirements

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): A minimum of the following clearance(s) is required within one year from the date of hire: A U.S. government Top Secret security clearance.

Benefits

MITRE offers competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership.