TS/SCI Principal Cyber Intelligence Engineer

About the role

MITRE is a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. MITRE’s Cyber Threat Intelligence department is seeking a Principal Cyber Intelligence Engineer to join our team and apply your skills in support of our government and private sector sponsors. You will advance our research and innovation in cyber intelligence, lead projects and tasks, and collaborate across MITRE to help shape our work and capability. Our staff work with government, industry, and academia, enabling the public and private sector to make better decisions and implement solutions to complex challenges of national and global significance.

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 mission needs 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.
• Demonstrate expertise in technical threat analysis, including intrusion analysis, malware analysis, threat actor profiling, infrastructure analysis, and adversary campaign tracking.
• Evaluate and apply CTI tools, platforms, data sources, automation, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to improve intelligence collection, analysis, correlation, and dissemination.
• Develop innovative approaches to integrating cyber threat intelligence with threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, and cyber risk analysis.

Requirements

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Knowledge of adversary tradecraft and their utilization of cyber operations as a tool of military force and statecraft.
• Experience with U.S. government cybersecurity agencies, intelligence agencies, authorities, and relationships.
• Strong leadership and communication skills to effectively mentor teams and collaborate with diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated application of MITRE ATT&CK® within operational environments and other structured frameworks and analytic techniques (e.g., Diamond Model).
• Familiarity with all-source intelligence databases and analytic tools.
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S