Intel Policy, Strategy, and Analyst Intern

About the Role

MITRE's Intelligence Mission Enablement Department (L643) supports sponsors within the intelligence community, enhancing national capabilities in Warfighter Support, Counterintelligence and Insider Threats, Scientific and Technical Intelligence, Counterterrorism, Intelligence Fusion, Adversary Intelligence, Mission Engineering, and Data-Driven Strategy and Policy. MITRE is seeking technically accomplished and mission-focused candidates to bring fresh insights to its work program. They are looking for recent graduates interested in pursuing careers that advance the U.S. Intelligence Community’s capabilities and contributions to national security.

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

• 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.
• On-site requirement: 5 days a week.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred qualifications vary based on the specific work program.

• 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.

Clearance Requirements

• This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None.
• This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI.

Salary Compensation Range: $76,800 - $96,000 - $115,200 Annual

Work Location Type: Onsite