Senior Adversarial AI Engineer

The MITRE Corporation•McLean, VA

7d•$143,600 - $215,400•Hybrid

About The Position

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 5 years of experience in artificial intelligence with a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of AI-related education and work experience
Hands-on experience in one or more of the following technical areas: Generative AI, AI Security, Agentic AI, AI Testing & Evaluation, or Applied AI
Demonstrated skills with Python and the standard AI technical stack
Ability to work independently to learn new technologies, methods, processes, frameworks/platforms, and systems
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences
Active IC or DOD TS/SCI security clearance with CI Poly
U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance
This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or related disciplines
Hands-on experience in one or more of the following technical areas: AI red teaming, AI threat analysis, AI-enhanced cybersecurity, or AI-accelerated cyber operations
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

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