Principal Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer
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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.
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 be a US citizen capable of obtaining and maintaining a Federal clearance.
- 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:
- Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance.
- 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.
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/SCI
Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$168,500 - $210,500 - $252,500 Annual
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
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