Division Chief Engineer, National Intelligence Division; Intelligence Center

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The MITRE Intelligence Center is seeking a Division Chief Engineer (DCE) for the National Intelligence Division (NID), located at MITRE’s McLean campus. The DCE reports directly to the Managing Director for NID and serves as the Division’s senior technical leader, responsible for ensuring that MITRE delivers technically rigorous, high‑impact solutions in support of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

As the Division’s highest‑level technical authority, the DCE is accountable for advancing the Division’s technical strategy, ensuring analytic, engineering, and test and evaluation excellence across all NID work programs. The DCE applies deep technical expertise to shape MITRE’s contributions to ODNI’s mission centers and directorates, driving quality, innovation, and cross‑IC interoperability.

The DCE is a core member of the Intelligence Center senior leadership team, partnering with the MD and other technical leaders across MITRE to ensure the Division’s work anticipates emerging mission challenges, leverages MITRE’s cross‑center capabilities, and delivers enterprise‑level impact for ODNI and the intelligence community.

The primary responsibilities of the position must be carried out in person in McLean, Virginia. Applicants will establish regular presence at ODNI and MITRE locations with staff supporting those organizations, as well as have availability to travel to those locations on short notice. This may entail frequent, flexible, or extended travel as mission and organizational needs dictate.

• Serve as the senior technical authority for all NID work, ensuring technical rigor, analytic excellence, and mission relevance.
• Shape the Division’s technical strategy, ensuring alignment to ODNI priorities, national‑level intelligence needs, and MITRE’s enterprise capabilities.
• Provide executive‑level technical counsel to ODNI mission centers and directorates, including issues related to intelligence collection and analysis, data and architecture modernization, emerging technology, strategic foresight, and research test and evaluation.
• Identify emerging mission and technology trends and ensure NID is positioned to address them with foresight, innovation, and credibility.

• Lead technical reviews, sponsor deliverable assessments, and Division‑wide quality assurance processes.
• Ensure consistent application of tradecraft, engineering standards, T&E methodologies, and analytic best practices.
• Guide complex, high‑consequence work and ensure that NID efforts contribute meaningfully to ODNI’s enterprise missions and national decision‑making.

• Drive technical integration across MITRE divisions, labs, FFRDC capabilities, and innovation centers to strengthen ODNI’s enterprise solutions.
• Facilitate cross‑sponsor architectures, pilots, and prototypes that enable ODNI to leverage emerging technologies effectively.
• Promote reuse, shared technical frameworks, and cross‑agency standards that strengthen intelligence integration…