Defensive Cybersecurity Engineer/Blue Team

The MITRE Corporation•New Bedford, MA

1d•$158,800 - $238,200•Onsite

About The Position

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. MITRE’s Defensive Cyber Operations department is seeking creative people to work collaboratively with our staff of cybersecurity engineers in the fields of defensive cyber operations, threat hunting, detection engineering, and cyber deception and adversary engagement with increasing emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support mission-driven cybersecurity initiatives for government sponsors. This role blends hands-on defensive operations with advanced research and applied development in AI-enabled cybersecurity. The successful candidate will help design, implement, and evaluate next-generation defensive capabilities that leverage machine learning, large language models, autonomous systems, and advanced analytics to protect mission-critical systems and national infrastructure.

Requirements

Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
Knowledge of cyber security operations and cyber security principles and their application
Experience in at least one of: security operations centers, threat hunting, detection engineering, malware analysis, or cyber deception
Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government clearance security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information
Must have an active Top Secret U.S Government issued Security 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 3 days a week on-site.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Splunk or Elastic/ELK
Experience using MITRE ATT&CK®
Experience using or developing AI tools and techniques for defensive cyber operations
TS/SCI preferred

Responsibilities

Combining cybersecurity domain expertise and contemporary data science skills to enhance adversary detection, network defense, and Security Operations Center (SOC) process improvement.
Developing AI-enabled cybersecurity tools for anomaly detection, behavioral analytics, malware analysis, and adversary emulation.
Researching emerging AI techniques (e.g., machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, reinforcement learning) and assessing their applicability to defensive cyber missions.
Using MITRE ATT&CK® to hunt the adversary and build TTP-based defenses.
Using detection engineering to create security analytics and dashboards in Splunk or Elastic and integrating new data feeds
Automating container environments via continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)
Acting as a trusted advisor to the Federal Government