Space Cybersecurity Engineer (Intelligence Center)

About the role

At MITRE, you can contribute to tackling our nation's toughest challenges while maintaining a fulfilling life. MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts. The National Space Program operates at the intersection of technological innovation and deep domain expertise, engineering end-to-end solutions for next-generation space capabilities. By leveraging systems engineering, advanced analytics, and cross-cutting research, we mitigate risk and accelerate modernization across the entire space life cycle, ensuring global mission assurance and space superiority.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop Space Systems cybersecurity requirements using systems engineering principles.
• Develop Space system cybersecurity capabilities to apply into architecture-level constructs accounting for expected system behavior.
• Define how cybersecurity capabilities are evaluated and validated within Space systems.
• Define measurable outcomes for cybersecurity effectiveness (e.g., containment, detection, mission impact).
• Integrate with MBSE/modeling teams to ensure accurate representation of cybersecurity capabilities, trust boundaries, and enforcement points, with full traceability from capability through architecture to system elements.

Requirements

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years with a Master’s degree; or 3 years with a PhD; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s or higher degree from an accredited technical program in engineering, computer science, or other applicable degree.
• Demonstrated experience applying cybersecurity to embedded, mission-critical, or constrained system environments.
• Experience translating cybersecurity into system architecture decisions.
• Experience in defining how system solutions are evaluated, including performance under failure or degraded conditions.
• Active Top Secret/SCI w/ Polygraph U.S. Government-issued Security Clearance (U.S. citizenship required for clearance eligibility).
• On-site requirement: 5 days a week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in applicable STEM areas.
• Experience with space systems or other complex systems.
• Experience applying novel cybersecurity approaches to constrained, autonomous, or disconnected systems.
• Experience working with MBSE/DE and Modeling/Simulation teams.
• Experience with threat-informed engineering, resilience analysis, or mission assurance.

Pay

Salary compensation range: $158,800 – $238,200 (midpoint: $198,500) annually.

Schedule

Work location type: Onsite.