Lead AI Engineer

The Mitre Corporation•Hollymead, VA

5d•$174,000 - $261,000•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. Department Summary: MITRE’s Trustworthy & Secure AI (TSAI) Department consists of a diverse team united by a passion and a sense of urgency to harness trustworthy and assured artificial intelligence (AI) to help solve problems in the public interest. The TSAI Department supports our sponsors' missions by delivering capabilities for securing and increasing trust in AI-enabled systems, including data driven AI risk awareness and mitigation, AI red teaming, and trusted tools and techniques for applying AI in high consequence environments. The TSAI Department works across government, industry, and academia to provide, assess, and shape trustworthy and secure AI systems to address complex mission needs for our sponsors. Our work provides opportunities to address real-world challenges in the rapidly developing field of AI assurance, and to research and prototype new methods to address mission needs. We are looking for highly motivated, adaptive, and self-directed candidates to perform research, development, engineering, evaluation, and integration of secure AI systems.

Requirements

Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of experience in artificial intelligence with a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of AI-related education and work experience.
Advanced understanding of foundational AI/ML theory, with demonstrated ability to reason about AI system behavior, vulnerabilities, and evaluation
Hands-on experience with building and evaluating computer vision systems
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences
Proven ability to lead interdisciplinary teams and engage senior mission stakeholders across technical and operational domains
Must have an active Top Secret/SCI and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI with CI Polygraph 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 has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or related disciplines
Hands-on experience deploying and using enterprise-grade AI systems, particularly generative, agentic, and/or multimodal AI systems
Experience with one or more of the following AI security topics: AI red teaming, AI T&E, adversarial AI, AI-enhanced cybersecurity, AI strategy and governance
Experience generating or analyzing intelligence reporting data
Familiarity with MITRE ATLAS threat matrix
Experience leading small to medium sized teams to solve practical technical challenges
Active IC or DOD TS/SCI security clearance with CI Poly

Responsibilities

Perform AI adversarial threat analysis to identify and characterize vulnerabilities in real-world national security systems
Work as a technical subject matter expert within a team of intelligence analysts to research, analyze and produce intelligence reports
Assessing threats to AI-enabled systems and use of AI by adversaries
Convey complex ideas to non-technical audiences through intelligence production, briefings and/or white papers