1 day ago
McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$159k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, debug, maintain, and deploy Python applications, analytical tools, automation, and data-processing capabilities.
- Translate complex or ambiguous sponsor problems into technical requirements, architectures, implementation decisions, and practical solutions.
- Lead technical direction for projects or capabilities while personally writing and reviewing production-quality code.
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, code reviews, and design reviews for engineers and analysts.
- Develop reusable tools, libraries, workflows, documentation, and engineering practices.
- Collaborate with investigators, analysts, data scientists, engineers, sponsors, and other technical stakeholders.
- Evaluate software, data sources, platforms, and analytical approaches to improve investigative capabilities.
- Communicate technical concepts, risks, decisions, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Strong Python software development experience, including development, debugging, testing, and maintenance of non-trivial software or analytical capabilities.
- Experience independently solving complex technical problems, making technical design decisions, and leading the technical direction of a project, task, capability, or significant body of work.
- Experience providing technical guidance, mentorship, or work reviews and translating user or mission needs into working technical solutions.
- Experience developing software that processes, transforms, interacts with, or analyzes complex datasets.
- Understanding of software engineering practices including version control, testing, documentation, code review, and maintainable design.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with multidisciplinary teams and sponsor or customer stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with digital investigations, cybersecurity, intelligence, law enforcement, national security, or other operational missions.
- Preferred experience with Python libraries and frameworks such as pandas, NumPy, SQLAlchemy, FastAPI, or Flask; data pipelines; APIs; backend services; automation; analytical workflows; databases; SQL; Linux; command-line tools; scripting; Git; automated testing; containerization; external APIs; or investigative platforms.
- Preferred familiarity with digital forensics, OSINT, cyber threat intelligence, network analysis, malware analysis, cryptocurrency analysis, investigative analytics, or target and activity analysis.
- Active Secret U.S. Government security clearance is required; the candidate must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, and U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance eligibility.
- Active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance is preferred.
- Access to a vehicle is required for sponsor-site and related local mission activities.
Benefits
- MITRE offers competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- This is an onsite role in the McLean, Virginia area requiring regular sponsor-site presence and a minimum of four days per week onsite.
- The hired candidate must have or obtain a Top Secret clearance within one year of hire.
About MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defense, cybersecurity, aviation, and healthcare. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, MITRE runs FFRDCs for sponsors including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and health agencies.