Systems Security Engineering, Associate

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MITRE’s Systems Security Engineering Department has a new opportunity for a strong technical candidate with a STEM degree to join an innovative team of engineers focused on ensuring resilient and secure solutions for a safer world. You will leverage your academic foundation and work experiences to develop and apply the latest systems security and cybersecurity engineering concepts. You will partner with sponsors and customers to produce secure‑by‑design solutions leveraging mission engineering and digital engineering best practices.

Your work will include building, analyzing, and maintaining models that capture mission needs, security requirements, architectures, interfaces, and assurance evidence. You will help improve digital security, traceability, and mission resiliency using standards‑based methods and modern tools. You will also have opportunities to merge your work and interests with advancements from research, industry, academia, and standards groups to develop novel security capabilities.

• Analyze missions and systems for potential loss conditions, consequences, and propose mitigation approaches
• 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 systems security analysis and assessments, including identifying risks and handling options, to inform decision making
• Assist in development of systems security and cybersecurity strategy development, system testing and evaluation, and verification and validation efforts
• Analyze system requirements, software, hardware, supply chain, and integration approaches using analysis tools to identify vulnerabilities and system architecture, design, and implementation flaws
• Develop system security engineering attributes within complex model‑based system engineering products

• 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.
• Understanding of digital engineering tools, modeling languages, and techniques
• 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

• Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance
• Advanced degree in Computer…