Senior Computer Scientist (Intelligence Center)

at  THE MITRE CORPORATION

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That’s because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation’s toughest challenges—and we’re committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We’re making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.
The National Security Department within MITRE’s Intelligence Center has the responsibility to deliver a cross-organizational set of projects for the MITRE Intelligence Center. We provide cybersecurity and SIGINT expertise to ensure the resilience and survivability of DoD, IC infrastructure, and National Security Systems (NSS) in the face of adversary threats. Our mission is to enable a cybersecurity posture that promotes protection and prevention of actions taken to compromise mission critical devices, services, platforms, products, and software of interest to the U.S. and its allies. Our highly agile team provides support across sponsors using knowledge and skills such as cybersecurity engineering, applied research and development, reverse engineering, software engineering, systems engineering and integration, offensive and defensive cyber operations, advanced cyber threats, adversary methodologies, cyber threat intelligence analysis, and technology analysis and assessments.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The National Security Department is looking for a Senior Computer Engineer to join our team. In this role you will be required to:

• Complete software research and development supporting a classified sponsor in multiple related tasks.
• Work closely and collaboratively with government, other government contractors, and MITRE staff to develop solutions to advanced and challenging problems.
• Deliver technical advice and guidance on Sponsor software architecture and deliver software development in support of classified DoD and IC missions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph clearance.
• Due to the lengthy clearance process, candidates without an existing TS/SCI clearance with FS polygraph cannot be considered for this opening.
• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• Experience with NodeJS, Python, and/or Java.
• Demonstrated success in applying software development skills and knowledge of SW development methodologies in a collaborative team environment with highly complex computer network systems.
• Experience with configuration management tools and containerized development approaches.
• Experience developing interface modules, driver code, and using machine learning support modules.
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Highly qualified candidates would meet several of the following preferred qualifications, however, we do not expect any individual to meet all of them:

• Master’s degree in computer science or related engineering discipline.
• Demonstrated proficiency implementing solutions using Docker, IDE, Bitbucket and/or similar/related software development collaboration tools.
• Familiarity/experience with software development for device command and control applications.
• Broad knowledge of DoD and intelligence community organizations and missions.
• Recent experience/domain expertise working and collaborating closely with DoD and IC customers.
• Effective in interacting with technical staff, analysts, and operators ranging from junior-level contributors to the most senior leaders in the government.

• Complete software research and development supporting a classified sponsor in multiple related tasks.
• Work closely and collaboratively with government, other government contractors, and MITRE staff to develop solutions to advanced and challenging problems.
• Deliver technical advice and guidance on Sponsor software architecture and deliver software development in support of classified DoD and IC missions