Job Abstract

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

Department Summary:

Roles & Responsibilities:

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret clearance.
• 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.
• Typically requires a degree in computer science, data science, applied mathematics/statistics, operation research, artificial intelligence, or other physical science/engineering fields.
• 2+ years of experience working technical challenges. 
• Must meet eligibility requirements for TS/SCI (Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation).
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and capable of working in a cross-functional environment that includes scientists, data analysts, technical software developers, and intelligence analysts.
• Experience with software engineering concepts such as development, debugging, git, code reviews, continuous integration, and testing.
• Experience developing in python.
• Experience developing in linux/unix operating systems.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Master’s degree in computer science, data science, applied mathematics/statistics, operation research, artificial intelligence, or other physical science/engineering fields.
• Experience cleaning and wrangling real-world messy data.
• Data analysis around business intelligence, supply chain, economics, cyber, and/or critical infrastructure topics.
• Domain knowledge of machine learning and computer vision techniques for classification, detection, key attribute extraction, segmentation, or activity detection.
• Proficiency with data science stack(s) within python such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, etc
• Experience developing applications with Elasticsearch or graph databases like Neo4j
• Proficiency querying, designing, and optimizing relational database tools such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Singularity) and container orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Prior experience deploying to cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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