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Location

Bedford, MA | United States

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Job description

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.

MITRE’s Cyber Operations Division (N140) is seeking an Associate Cybersecurity Engineer to join our team in support of the United States Air & Space Forces. N140 executes a wide variety of projects in partnership with our sponsors. We are working to ensure cyber survivable weapon systems for mission resilience in contested environments. We are advancing information warfare and cyber effects for integrated deterrence and information dominance. We are securing, delivering, and defending mission capabilities, infrastructure, and digital transformation services to improve readiness to transition to a wartime posture. If selected for this position, you will have the opportunity to work some of the most important cybersecurity challenges facing our nation.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform professional technical work as an individual contributor on one or more MITRE projects
• Under the direction and guidance of more senior staff, perform a range of assignments to solve basic problems
• Apply a basic level of knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures within your job discipline

Basic Qualifications:

• Ability to obtain a Top Secret Clearance
• Demonstrated competency in at least one of the technical fields that are relevant to our work program (e.g., cloud computing, data engineering / data science, cyber security and resiliency, SAFe agile software development, artificial intelligence/machine learning, etc).
• Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical/computer engineering, system engineering, cyber security, or related field
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Motivation to expand knowledge and skills and assume responsibility.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Existing Secret or Top Secret Clearance
• Experience as intern for a company performing cyber security related work
• Experience supporting Air & Space Forces

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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