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Lead cyber intelligence targeting strategy, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor staff. | 10+ years experience, bachelor's degree, active Top Secret/SCI clearance, proficiency in cyber intelligence analysis and communication. | 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 for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. Department Summary: The Cyber Operations Division (L510) is seeking a Capability Area Lead (CAL) for the Cyber Intelligence Targeting Capability Area. The CAL is responsible for developing and executing the strategy for this capability. This is a leadership role that requires close collaboration with department and division leadership, other CALs, staff across the company working in the domain, relevant Research Program Leads, and portfolio, and program division staff with sponsor opportunities related to the capability area. Roles & Responsibilities: Key functions of this role include: Guiding capability area strategy and coordination: The CAL builds and executes the capability strategy in coordination with the Tier 2 Cyber Intelligence Capability Chief Engineer (CCE), prioritizing research, identifying and promoting re-usable analytic tools and tradecraft, and ensuring the quality of work done in this area across MTE. The CAL also collaborates with the CAL for Threat Emulation and Exercises on shared tools, frameworks, and tradecraft, and builds working relationships with Tier 1 and Tier 2 capabilities that draw on target and adversary understanding, including Hard Targets and Technical Tradecraft, Critical Infrastructure Resilience, and Cryptography, Identity, and Data Protection. Driving impact across the work program: The CAL represents the capability area and, more broadly, the division's work in that area to partner divisions, programs, and sponsors. It requires developing and delivering sponsor briefings, shaping and helping to staff work to meet the needs of the sponsor, and promoting external publication and sponsor presentations. Fostering a community of excellence and innovation: The CAL is the focal point and thought leader for the capability’s work in the division. The CAL organizes TEMs, trainings, and grows the division's skillset across both operational functions, and engages with the internal R&D program to help shape research priorities and mentor staff from ideation through proposal and execution, with a focus on improving analytic tools and workflows that raise individual analyst throughput. The CAL participates in hiring activities related to the capability area and advocates for the capability and the team through direct work, conference presentations, and open-source development. Basic Qualifications: 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. Understanding of the missions, domains, and challenges of cybersecurity work with MITRE sponsors. Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills and a keen desire to learn. An open attitude to promoting the work of others. Knowledge of Target System Analysis, established targeting doctrine, and MITRE's work in offensive cyber operations. Experience conducting and scoping cyber target intelligence and systems analysis, including centers of gravity assessment. Experience with collection management and access-oriented support, including intelligence requirements and target network access conditions. Active Top Secret/SCI clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements for a clearance, U.S Citizenship is required. This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site. Preferred Qualifications: Experience improving analytic tools, tradecraft, or workflows against target intelligence and systems analysis problems. Demonstrated track record building strong internal and external partnerships, including across interagency technical cyber intelligence roles, responsibilities, and authorities. This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI Salary compensation range and midpoint: $172,800 - $216,000 - $259,200 Annual Work Location Type: Hybrid It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org for general support and collegerecruiting@mitre.org for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply. Benefits information may be found here. Copyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.

Lead research and innovation in cyber intelligence to solve complex security challenges and guide capability development. | Bachelor's degree, 8+ years cyber intelligence experience, active TS/SCI clearance, US citizenship, expertise in MITRE ATT&CK and adversary tradecraft. | 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 for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. Department Summary: 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. Roles & Responsibilities: Apply cyber intelligence expertise to help our 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 needstheir 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. Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience in cyber intelligence, cybersecurity, and related fields; or the equivalent combination of higher education and/or real-world 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. Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to pass polygraph Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements for a clearance, U.S Citizenship is required Ability to work onsite minimum of 4 days per week 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 forensics. Familiarity with adversarial C2 hardware and software. Familiarity with supporting basic, intermediate, and advanced target development. Familiarity with vulnerability identification Familiarity with network architecture analysis This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph Salary compensation range and midpoint: $158,800 - $198,500 - $238,200 Annual Work Location Type: Onsite Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org for general support and collegerecruiting@mitre.org for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply. Benefits information may be found here. Copyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.

Apply advanced analytical and mathematical techniques to support decision-making and operational effectiveness in a hybrid work environment. | Bachelor's degree with less than 1 year experience, knowledge of operations research methods, programming, and simulation tools, and U.S. citizenship for security clearance. | 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 for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. This is an opportunity for a creative Operations Research Analyst to join MITRE’s Operations Research department. We are a large group of over 60 operations research professionals, including over 20 PhDs, who provide thought leadership on a variety of strategic and technical issues, perform analysis that enable our sponsors to make more effective decisions, lead internal research and development activities to bring new technical capabilities into the public sector, and serve as trusted third-party advisors to government sponsors on a variety of technical topics. In short, we apply our problem-solving skills to complex interdisciplinary problems that occur within or at the intersection of organizations, operations, and technology. We support sponsor projects across the defense and public sectors including military logistics, radio-spectrum frequency management, health care delivery, cybersecurity analytics, fraud detection, satellite planning, homeland security and civilian aviation. We apply advanced analytic techniques such as longitudinal analysis, large-scale integer programming, metaheuristics, agent-based modeling, reinforcement learning, predictive modeling, mathematical modeling, forecasting, machine learning, optimization, statistics, probability modeling, Bayesian analysis, and different types of simulation to solve the nation’s toughest problems. And our research pushes the boundaries on topics such as complex scheduling, medical image analysis, and identifying changes in data streams. If you are passionate about project-based OR work in the public interest, you have found the right place. Roles & Responsibilities: • Apply advanced analytical and mathematical techniques to make difficult policy and acquisition decisions, to maximize operational effectiveness and efficiency, and achieve highest quality engineering solutions • Present results in an intuitive, actionable manner that can be understood by all sponsor audiences, regardless of technical expertise • Work independently and/or collaborate with a team of technical staff • Work successfully in a hybrid environment with in-person presence Basic Qualifications: • Degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent knowledge and skills in a related field • Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree. • Be passionate about applying operations research, statistics, and data analytics to real world problems • Be willing to adapt and learn • Show evidence of knowledge of principles, concepts, methods and tools for conducting operations research, statistical analysis, and data analytic studies • Have experience in using tools and techniques to do mathematical modeling, optimization, statistics, probability modeling, and simulation • Demonstrated ability to use at least one optimization package (e.g., Gurobi, CPLEX, PuLP, AMPL) • Demonstrated ability to use at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, RStudio, Java) • Demonstrated ability to use at least one simulation platform (e.g., Stella, Simio, Arena, AnyLogic, SimPy, RSimmer) • Must be a U.S. citizen capable of obtaining & maintaining U.S. security clearance • Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S. Citizen to be considered for a security clearance. • GPA must be listed for all degrees received within past 3 years • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site presence. Preferred Qualifications: • Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance • Masters degree is preferred. • Experience working with/for agencies and/or departments of the US Government (e.g., FAA, DoD, DoE, DHS, Treasury, IRS) This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret Salary compensation range and midpoint: $80,000 - $100,000 - $120,000 Annual Work Location Type: Hybrid It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org for general support and collegerecruiting@mitre.org for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply. Benefits information may be found here. Copyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.