Lead Cyber Security Engineer - Security Clearance Required

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Department Summary :

The Cyber for Identity Trust and Assurance department is comprised of an inspired multi-disciplinary team of researchers and practitioners driving innovation in the department’s technical areas of focus, with particular emphasis in Cryptography, Software Assurance (SWA), Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI).

We develop and apply scalable approaches for systems and software, evaluate technology and solutions, lead and foster external partnerships within the communities we support, and conduct novel research and development.

We serve in critical roles including :

Aiding the Government community in applying cryptography and architecting secure cryptographic systems, software, and protocols.

We specialize in the application of well-founded cryptographic techniques as well as the design and application of emerging cryptographic techniques for security and privacy, including post-quantum cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption, and secure multi-party computation, among others.

Developing and implementing SWA programs for our sponsors, enabling them to build and maintain assurance in the software they’re deploying.

Our expertise also involves a deep understanding of software weaknesses and best practices for mitigating them as well as strategies for managing software supply chain security.

Developing strategies, assessing policy and technical constraints, and facilitating the deployment of ICAM solutions into cloud, on-premises, and tactical environments.

As senior trusted advisors and leaders within the ICAM community internally and external to MITRE, we apply our knowledge of industry trends, advances in commercial technology, and relevant industry standards and protocols to inform our sponsors’ decision-making.

Working at the intersection of Cybersecurity and AI on trustworthy approaches to applying AI to cybersecurity applications (e.

g., autonomous network defense, assessing code for software weaknesses) as well as developing and applying frameworks for evaluating the assurance of AI-based techniques.

Performing research and development, evaluation and testing and operational support for high-priority sponsor mission applications, MITRE Labs strategic initiatives, and MITRE’s internal research and development program.

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Apply your technical expertise in system security analysis, assurance, secure coding, and reverse engineering to tackle broad challenges that our sponsors face.
• Identify opportunities to apply your technical knowledge towards solving complex systems and security engineering problems.
• Identify synergies between your specialty areas and other cyber security disciplines, such as security architecture, resiliency, and policy to help address sponsor needs.
• Work with commercial tool vendors to understand the current state of the art in static, dynamic, SBOM, and other software assurance analyses, as well as work with members of the CVE / CWE / CAPEC teams to flesh out code level weaknesses and attacks.

Basic Qualifications :

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.

• Must be U.S. citizen with a Secret clearance
• Experience with applying security engineering throughout the system engineering lifecycle, including security architecture, software security, intrusion detection, and defensive countermeasures.
• Software development experience across the entire lifecycle, including design, development, and testing
• Experience with software vulnerabilities and defensive coding practices.
• A personal desire to help others, including our sponsors, develop and acquire safe and secure applications.
• Track record of impactful work how you have made a difference.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and proactive, critical thinking skills.
• Excellent written / verbal communications skills.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Interest in the application of technology to problem solving.
• Experience with leading and performing computer security research.
• Must be comfortable leading a team, performing technical reviews, coordinating with other reviewers as appropriate and leveraging relationships to benefit the work program.
• Must be able to interact effectively with a variety of sponsors.
• Preference given to qualified candidates with active DoD Top Secret / SCI Clearance.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Applied Mathematics, or related technical field of study.

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

Secret

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

Secret

Work Location Type : Hybrid

Hybrid

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