Cybersecurity Engineer Intern

About the Role

MITRE is seeking a cybersecurity professional to support full-spectrum cyber operations. This role offers opportunities across adversary emulation, cyber intelligence, detection engineering and threat hunting, analytics and malware analysis, defensive cyber operations, offensive non-kinetic capabilities, digital forensics, digital assets, anonymization, and cyber deception/adversary engagement. The ideal candidate may help simulate real-world threats, develop and enhance defensive or offensive cyber solutions, analyze complex data and malware, contribute to digital investigations and deceptive environments that impose cost on adversaries, or assist with other related cybersecurity projects. This role is suited for individuals who are mission-driven, technically strong, and eager to work on challenging, real-world cyber problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct full-spectrum cyber operations across adversary emulation, defensive and offensive cyber, cyber intelligence, adversary engagement, and digital investigations.
• Simulate real-world threat actors and attack techniques to identify vulnerabilities, assess defenses, and improve organizational cyber resilience.
• Analyze cyber threat intelligence, complex datasets, and malware to identify adversary behaviors, emerging threats, and actionable insights.
• Develop, evaluate, and enhance innovative cyber capabilities, including defensive solutions, non-kinetic effects, and deception environments designed to disrupt and impose costs on adversaries.
• Support digital forensics and cyber investigations by collecting and analyzing technical evidence to characterize incidents and inform mission decisions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Sustained excellence in academic performance
• Demonstrated interest in serving the public

Qualifications

• Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Must continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.

Salary compensation range and midpoint: $46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500 Annual

Work Location Type: Onsite

Clearance(s): None required initially, none required within one year of hire.