Financial Media, Digital Publishing, Fintech

Principal Cyber Intelligence Engineer

Mclean, VAOnsiteFull TimePrincipal$172,800–$259,200 /yrPosted 8 days ago

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Required skills

Cyber Threat Intelligence
MITRE ATT&CK
Diamond Model
Intrusion Analysis
Malware Analysis
Threat Actor Profiling
Adversary Campaign Tracking
Cyber Risk Analysis
Incident Response
Detection Engineering

Nice to have

Adversary Emulation
Defensive Cyber Operations
Cyber Deception
Adversary Engagement
Cyber Forensics
Network Architecture Analysis

Role summary

MITRE's Cyber Threat Intelligence department seeks a Principal Cyber Intelligence Engineer to support government and private sector sponsors. This role involves applying cyber intelligence expertise to solve complex problems, including defensive cyber operations, securing weapons systems, assessing critical infrastructure threats, and analyzing intelligence reporting. The engineer will guide sponsors in building cyber intelligence capabilities, review tools, recommend best practices, and conduct research and development. Key responsibilities include using MITRE ATT&CK®, performing technical threat analysis (intrusion, malware, threat actor profiling), and evaluating CTI tools, platforms, and emerging technologies like AI/ML. The role emphasizes integrating CTI with threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, and cyber risk analysis. A minimum of 8 years of experience with a Master's degree is required, along with knowledge of adversary tradecraft and U.S. government cybersecurity agencies. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential. This is an onsite position requiring a Top Secret security clearance and U.S. citizenship.

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re 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. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

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 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.

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.
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 be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week 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 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
Advanced knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK® and adversary behavioral analysis
Experience integrating CTI with threat hunting, detection engineering, and incident response.

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):

Top Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$172,800 - $216,000 - $259,200 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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