Intel Policy, Strategy, and Analyst

About the Role

MITRE is seeking technically accomplished and mission-focused candidates to bring fresh insights to our work program, supporting the Intelligence Mission Enablement Department. We are looking for recent graduates interested in pursuing careers that advance the U.S. Intelligence Community’s capabilities and contributions to our nation’s security. We combine domain expertise with leading technical capabilities to solve hard emerging and enduring problems challenging the national security enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to approaches and strategies to modernize intelligence tools, techniques, and analysis.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of impactful MITRE work through technical research, presentations, and written deliverables.
• Assist in the development of a variety of analytical models to address sponsor challenges.
• Work with teams to produce concrete, short-term, tangible outputs that make progress towards larger, impactful outcomes.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Work Location: Onsite (5 days a week)
• Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government issued Security Clearance required.
• Citizenship: U.S. Citizen required for security clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Demonstrated interest in relevant topics: national security policy, the organizations of the intelligence community and their roles, the intelligence cycle, counterintelligence and security, Department of War operations, etc.
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical, written, and oral communication skills.
• An inquisitive, self-motivated, and flexible approach to problem-solving.

Preferred Qualifications

• Significant academic background or prior work experience in a relevant field.
• Demonstrated technical skills as applied to intelligence requirements with a strong knowledge of the intelligence community and intelligence processes.
• Deep socio-political or cultural knowledge of key countries or regions or working knowledge or proficiency in a foreign language.
• Experience in web or app development, web services, web standards, and orchestration tools, and familiarity working in cloud-based environments.
• Technical proficiency in key cybersecurity approaches and technologies, as well as an understanding of cybersecurity policy principles.
• Demonstrated ability to manipulate large datasets and perform calculations with modern programming languages like Python, C++, R, or Java, as well as the use of multi-dimensional data visualization tools.