Reverse Engineering and Cyber Capability Intern

The MITRE Corporation • New Bedford, MA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

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 for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us.
Job Responsibilities
As a cybersecurity intern, you will collaborate with experienced professionals and apply your knowledge to real-world challenges in cybersecurity and information security. The department works with reverse engineering and cyber capability development in the low-level firmware and embedded systems. Taking systems apart to understand them and utilizing that knowledge to build the capability to inspect, interact, and modify behavior for various outcomes. This hands-on opportunity will allow you to gain experience in one or more of the following areas:
Adversary Emulation
Deception and Adversary Engagement
Cyber Effects and Reverse Engineering
Cyber Forensics
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Operational Technology Engineering and Response
Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobile Device Security
Engineering and Architecting Safe, Secure, and Resilient Systems
Cyber Policy Development
Work in a small lab setting with a task lead to perform research on firmware component for a project which could include reverse engineering with tools such as Ghidra, source code analysis, and/or dynamic instrumentation and generating a prototype in a low-level language such as C.
Perform open source research related to the topic area to inform the task and share findings with task and project.
Generate an end-of-internship presentation for the project, the department and intern programs on what task we undertaken and the results generated.

Requirements

• Must be a full-time student pursuing an accredited degree program in a Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related disciplines.
• Must continue to be enrolled the semester following the internship.
• Foundational knowledge in cybersecurity and/or information security methodologies, frameworks, tools and/or programming languages.
• Must have sustained excellence in academic performance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience having applied cybersecurity or information security learning in an internship, research, or lab setting.
• Demonstrated low-level development experience
• Experience in reverse engineering
• Proficiency using cybersecurity and/or information security methodologies, frameworks, tools and/or programming languages.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity operations and/or the development of cyber policies.
• Proven ability to work independently.
• Demonstrated interest in serving the public through previous work experience, volunteer activities, or other relevant engagements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced professionals and apply your knowledge to real-world challenges in cybersecurity and information security.
• Work with reverse engineering and cyber capability development in the low-level firmware and embedded systems.
• Take systems apart to understand them and utilize that knowledge to build the capability to inspect, interact, and modify behavior for various outcomes.
• Perform research on firmware component for a project which could include reverse engineering with tools such as Ghidra, source code analysis, and/or dynamic instrumentation and generating a prototype in a low-level language such as C.
• Perform open source research related to the topic area to inform the task and share findings with task and project.
• Generate an end-of-internship presentation for the project, the department and intern programs on what task we undertaken and the results generated.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees