Strategic Intelligence & Domestic Security Chief Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Strategic Intelligence & Domestic Security Chief Engineer with Security Clearance
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Department Summary:

The MITRE Intelligence Center is seeking a Division Chief Engineer (CE) for its Division focused on Strategic Intelligence and Domestic Security (N980). The CE is based at MITRE's McLean campus, reports to the N980 Division Director, and serves as the Division's senior technical leader and primary technical partner to the Division Director. The CE also works closely with the Intelligence Center Chief Engineer and is a member of the Center's senior technical leadership community.

As the Division's highest-level technical authority, the CE is accountable for advancing N980's technical strategy and ensuring analytic, engineering, and test and evaluation excellence across all Division work programs. N980's work spans cyber security; collection, exploitation and analysis; multi-domain operations; modeling and simulation; computer and analytic sciences; reverse engineering; automation; artificial intelligence, and machine learning in support of sponsors across the Intelligence Community and the Department of Justice.

The CE ensures that MITRE delivers technically rigorous, high-impact solutions that address the most critical and emerging needs of N980's government sponsors, and that the Division's work program is differentiated, innovative, and aligned to MITRE's broader capabilities and strategy. The primary responsibilities of the position must be carried out in person in McLean, Virginia, with a regular presence at Strategic Intelligence and Department of Justice sponsor locations and MITRE locations with staff supporting those organizations, as well as availability to travel to those locations on short notice.

This may entail frequent, flexible, and/or extended travel as mission and organizational needs dictate.

Roles & Responsibilities Technical Leadership and Strategy
* Serve as the senior technical authority for all N980 work, ensuring technical rigor, analytic excellence, and mission relevance in support of strategic intelligence and Department of Justice sponsors.

* Develop and drive the Division's technical strategy, ensuring alignment with sponsor priorities, broader U.S. intelligence and national security needs, and MITRE's enterprise capabilities.

* Shape technical roadmaps across key mission and technology areas, including:

* Cyber security
* Collection, exploitation, and analysis
* Multi-domain operations
* Modeling and simulation
* Computer and analytic sciences
* Reverse engineering
* Automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning

* Partner with the Division Director to shape the Division's P&L work program, ensuring technical feasibility, innovation, and mission impact.

* Shape and align internal MITRE research and development efforts with validated, critical strategic intelligence and Department of Justice capability needs, including strategy for commercial capability acceleration and integration into future architectures and capabilities.

* Identify emerging mission and technology trends affecting N980's sponsors and ensure the Division is positioned with credible, forward-leaning technical approaches. Technical Oversight and Quality Assurance
* Lead Division-wide technical quality efforts, including technical reviews, sponsor deliverable assessments, and risk management for sensitive projects.

* Ensure the division is doing the right work, shapes out of work that no longer meets MITRE-appropriate standards, and transitions products to commercial industry.

* Ensure the work is done right, at the appropriate level of risk to match sponsor expectations for speed and cost, with sponsor transparency on assumptions and risk trade-offs.

* Ensure consistent application of tradecraft, engineering standards, T&E methodologies, analytic best practices, and modern data/AI/ML practices across the Division's portfolio.

* Deeply engage in the technical aspects of N980 work programs, guiding technical approach, architecture choices, and…