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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:\nMITRE’s Defensive Cyber Operations department is seeking creative people to work collaboratively with our staff of cybersecurity engineers in the fields of defensive cyber operations, threat hunt, detection engineering, and cyber deception and adversary engagement with increasing emphasis in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support mission-driven cybersecurity initiatives for government sponsors.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nProvide subject matter expertise to government sponsors on enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), including daily operations, governance, and process improvement.\nTranslate complex defensive cybersecurity concepts into practical training tailored to sponsors’ network topologies, staffing, funding, and technical resources.\nDevelop hands-on training scenarios and exercises that reflect real-world incident response challenges and sponsor mission needs.\nHelp sponsors develop, assess, and improve incident response plans, playbooks, and workflows for investigating, containing, and recovering from cyber incidents.\nApply MITRE ATT&CK® to characterize adversary behavior, support incident investigations, and identify opportunities to strengthen defenses.\nDesign, develop, and refine security detections, analytics, and dashboards, and integrate new data sources into security information and event management (SIEM) platforms.\nAnalyze and correlate endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry to determine incident scope, assess impact, and inform containment and remediation recommendations.\nAssess SOC and incident response capabilities, identify operational and technical gaps, and recommend improvements aligned with sponsor mission priorities and available resources.\nSupport post-incident reviews and exercises, translating lessons learned into improvements to response procedures, detection coverage, and operational readiness.\nResearch and evaluate emerging artificial intelligence techniques, including machine learning and generative AI, with an emphasis on practical, cost-effective applications to SOC operations and incident response.\nBasic Qualifications:\nTypically 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 have a minimum of 3 years of operational experience.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field\nKnowledge of incident response operations, principles, and their application.\nDemonstrated knowledge of and hands-on experience with generative AI or AI-enabled technologies, with the ability to apply these capabilities to cybersecurity investigation, incident response, threat analysis, or security automation.\nExperience developing technical training content, curriculum, courseware, or other learning materials for cybersecurity audiences.\nStrong technical writing, presentation, and facilitation skills.\nAbility and willingness to travel up to 25% to deliver training at customer locations, including international locations.\nMust be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret 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.\nThis position requires a minimum of 3 days per week on-site.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nComfort presenting to non-English-speaking audiences with translation support.\nExperience applying MITRE ATT&CK to support cybersecurity operations\nExperience leading incident response efforts and teams within a security operations center, incident response organization, or fly-away team.\nExperience developing incident response playbooks, tabletop exercises, or operational training scenarios.\nExperience leading technical training sessions for government, partner, or other technical audiences.\nExperience creating hands-on cybersecurity labs, exercises, or scenario-based learning materials.\nExperience with Splunk or Elastic/ELK.\nExperience integrating AI-enabled workflows with cybersecurity platforms such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, threat-intelligence, case-management, or cloud-security platforms.\nThis requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):\nNoneThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):\nTop SecretSalary compensation range and midpoint:\n$158,800 - $198,500 - $238,200 AnnualWork Location Type:\nOnsiteIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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