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. Participants gain hands-on experience, develop new skills, and build their professional network while working on complex cybersecurity challenges.

How the Program Works

• Structured onboarding to MITRE's culture and organizational structure
• Variety of project experiences that build broad cybersecurity expertise
• Curated technical and professional training
• Mentorship from MITRE cybersecurity experts
• Cohort of early-career peers and networking opportunities

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop threat-informed, intelligence-enabled solutions
• Conduct rigorous analysis and build proofs of concept
• Model and analyze cyber-physical, physical, human, and organizational systems
• Analyze binaries, firmware, embedded systems, and industrial protocols
• Develop tested, documented, reproducible research software
• Collaborate with sponsors, vendors, and academia

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 areas is helpful, but not required:
• Proficiency in one or more scripting or programming languages
• 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