11 hours ago
Fort Meade, MD, USA or McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$159k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Conduct advanced research and prototype demonstration capabilities focused on sponsor priorities and operational needs.
- Analyze technologies and software to assess design, behavior, security properties, and mission applicability.
- Perform software reverse engineering, code analysis, programming, and debugging.
- Develop, test, evaluate, and recommend technical approaches for cyber capabilities.
- Create software prototypes in C and Python and validate research concepts.
- Document research analysis, code, test results, progress, and recommendations, and communicate findings to sponsors and MITRE staff.
- Collaborate with MITRE personnel and external partners on sponsor challenges.
Requirements
- Typically requires 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 6 years with a master’s degree, 4 years with a PhD, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
- Requires experience with software reverse engineering and code analysis of complex software systems.
- Requires proficiency developing, debugging, and testing software in C and Python in Linux environments.
- Requires the ability to create software prototypes and develop research proposals focused on operational needs.
- Requires strong oral and written communication skills.
- Requires an active Top Secret/SCI U.S. government-issued security clearance and U.S. citizenship for security-clearance eligibility.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, cyber research or software-analysis experience, agentic AI tool experience, vulnerability or exploitability analysis, secure software analysis, Java programming, prototype transition experience, and sponsor relationship-building skills.
Benefits
- The position is onsite five days per week.
- MITRE provides competitive benefits and meaningful career development.
- The role supports work with national security and public-interest impact.
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.