Job Abstract

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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversary Emulation department is seeking a Principal Cyber Threat 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 threat intelligence (CTI), lead projects and tasks, and collaborate across MITRE to help shape our CTI work and capability. Our CTI 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.

As a MITRE employee, you’ll get the satisfaction of knowing your work is part of something bigger than yourself. Our work is driven by one mission: solving problems for a safer world. Every day is an opportunity to work towards this.

MITRE is a choose-your-own-adventure organization, where you'll support a diverse array of projects, collaborating with sponsors from the U.S. government, private sector, and international governments.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Apply cyber threat intelligence expertise to help our sponsors solve their hardest problems, ranging from enabling defensive cyber operations to securing weapons systems to enabling cyber effects.
• Help sponsors understand how cyber threat intelligence fits into 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 threat intelligence capabilities and programs.
• Propose and perform research and development to advance the state of the art in cyber threat intelligence.
• Use or contribute to MITRE ATT&CK® to help the global cybersecurity community understand threat behaviors.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of relevant experience in cyber threat intelligence, cybersecurity, and related fields; or the equivalent combination of higher education and/or real-world experience.
• Must have an active TS / SCI with poly for consideration
• 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, authorities, and relationships.
• Strong leadership and communication skills to effectively mentor teams and collaborate with diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK® and other structured frameworks and analysis techniques (e.g., Diamond Model).
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building and managing CTI teams and overseeing the production of strategic, operational, and tactical products and services.
• Experience with Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs), including configuring TIPs according to stakeholder requirements.
• Hands on technical expertise in any of the following additional areas: adversary emulation, defensive cyber operations, cyber analytics & malware analysis, cyber deception and adversary engagement, cyber effects and reverse engineering, and cyber forensic

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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