Systems Security Engineering, Associate

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Department Summary:

MITRE's Systems Security Engineering Department has a new opportunity for a strong technical candidate with AI expertise to join an innovative team of engineers focused on ensuring resilient and secure solutions for sponsor / customer needs and developing security capabilities for a safer world.

For this position, you will leverage your academic foundation and your work experiences to develop, hone and apply your knowledge of the latest AI, systems security and cybersecurity engineering concepts to ensure resilient and secure solutions for sponsor or customer needs. As well, you will have opportunities to merge your work and interests with advancements from research, industry, academia, and standards groups to develop novel security capabilities.

The right candidate will enjoy a fast-paced teaming environment, working with cutting-edge technology, and contributing to advancing security concepts. We are seeking a self-starter that assists in applying AI to build security into large engineering projects and acquisition efforts. The candidate for this position will work a wide variety of challenging problems including systems resiliency, AI/ML, security, and cybersecurity activities in direct support of programs.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide recommendations on ensuring systems are specified, designed, developed, implemented, integrated, and sustained to meet security, resiliency, and safety needs, goals and objectives 
• Research and develop unique, cutting-edge technical capabilities and processes for understanding, assessing, and analyzing system and technology resilience and security 
• Assist in development of systems security and cybersecurity strategy development, system testing and evaluation, and verification and validation efforts 
• Provide technical expertise to cross-functional teams to develop and implement AI/ML solutions, including capabilities that leverage LLM 
• Analyze AI-enabled solutions and recommend secure and trustworthy solutions to sponsors
• Contribute to projects or small teams to solve complex AI security problems for our sponsors
• Contribute to the innovation of new AI use cases applied to cyber operational challenges
• Keep pace with the rapidly advancing lifecycle of AI technologies to maintain cutting edge support of sponsor programs

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, Mathematics or other STEM disciplines or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• 2+ years of experience building applications in Python, Java, or C++
• Understanding of machine learning techniques, and agentic AI architecture
• Familiarity with systems security engineering approaches
• Ability to work successfully in small teams of engineers and collaborate on engineering products, demonstrations, and presentations
• Ability to write and present technical material in the form of proposals, white papers, technical reports, and presentations
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret 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 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering,  Mathematics, or other STEM discipline
• Hands-on experience with AI and one of the three following technical areas: AI security, AI-enhanced cybersecurity, or AI-accelerated cyber operations
• Hands-on experience with containerization technology (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience developing and deploying applications to air-gapped networks
• Ability to work independently to learn new technologies, methods, processes, frameworks/platforms, and systems
• Current Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret clearance

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:

$75,500 - $94,500 - $113,500 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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