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MITRE · 10 hours ago

Systems Security Engineering, Associate

Bedford, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry Level

$78K/yr - $116K/yr

2+ years exp

MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation focused on tackling the nation's toughest challenges. They are seeking an Associate for their Systems Security Engineering Department to develop secure solutions and contribute to AI and cybersecurity efforts.

Cyber SecurityInformation TechnologyNon ProfitQuantum ComputingSaaS

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Provide recommendations on ensuring systems are specified, designed, developed, implemented, integrated, and sustained to meet security, resiliency, and safety needs, goals and objectives

Research and develop unique, cutting-edge technical capabilities and processes for understanding, assessing, and analyzing system and technology resilience and security

Assist in development of systems security and cybersecurity strategy development, system testing and evaluation, and verification and validation efforts

Provide technical expertise to cross-functional teams to develop and implement AI/ML solutions, including capabilities that leverage LLM

Analyze AI-enabled solutions and recommend secure and trustworthy solutions to sponsors

Contribute to projects or small teams to solve complex AI security problems for our sponsors

Contribute to the innovation of new AI use cases applied to cyber operational challenges

Keep pace with the rapidly advancing lifecycle of AI technologies to maintain cutting edge support of sponsor programs

Qualification

AI expertiseCybersecurity engineeringSystems security engineeringPythonMachine learning techniquesAI securityContainerization technologyCollaborationTechnical writing

Required

Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, Mathematics or other STEM disciplines or equivalent combination of related education and work experience

2+ years of experience building applications in Python, Java, or C++

Understanding of machine learning techniques, and agentic AI architecture

Familiarity with systems security engineering approaches

Ability to work successfully in small teams of engineers and collaborate on engineering products, demonstrations, and presentations

Ability to write and present technical material in the form of proposals, white papers, technical reports, and presentations

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance

Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance

This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred

Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, or other STEM discipline

Hands-on experience with AI and one of the three following technical areas: AI security, AI-enhanced cybersecurity, or AI-accelerated cyber operations

Hands-on experience with containerization technology (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Experience developing and deploying applications to air-gapped networks

Ability to work independently to learn new technologies, methods, processes, frameworks/platforms, and systems

Current Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret clearance

Company

MITRE

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The MITRE Corporation is working to solve some of the nation’s biggest challenges in defense, cybersecurity, healthcare, homeland security, the judiciary and transportation.

Founded in 1958

Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

5001-10000 employees