Space Cybersecurity Engineer (Intelligence Center)

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The MITRE Corporation's National Space Program operates at the intersection of technological innovation and deep domain expertise. Our mission is to engineer end-to-end solutions for organizations developing, deploying, and operating next-generation space capabilities. By leveraging systems engineering, advanced analytics, and cross-cutting research, we mitigate risk and accelerate modernization across the entire space life cycle. Ultimately, the National Space Program serves as a foundation for global mission assurance. By reinforcing the digital and physical infrastructure underpinning space superiority, we empower operators to execute their objectives with absolute confidence-ensuring the success of critical national security, civil, and defense missions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Define and develop Space Systems cybersecurity requirements using systems engineering principles
• Develop Space system cybersecurity capabilities to apply into architecture-level constructs accounting for expected system behavior
• Define how cybersecurity capabilities are evaluated and validated within Space systems
• Define measurable outcomes for cybersecurity effectiveness (e.g., containment, detection, mission impact)
• Integrate with MBSE/modeling teams to ensure accurate representation of cybersecurity capabilities, trust boundaries, and enforcement points, with full traceability from capability through architecture to system elements.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or 5 years and a PhD
• Bachelor's or higher degree from an accredited technical program in engineering, computer science or other applicable degree.
• Demonstrated experience applying cybersecurity to embedded, mission-critical, or constrained system environments
• Experience translating cybersecurity into system architecture decisions
• Experience in defining how system solutions are evaluated, including performance under failure or degraded conditions
• Active TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• U.S. Citizenship required
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in applicable STEM areas
• Experience with space systems or other complex systems
• Experience applying novel cybersecurity approaches to constrained, autonomous, or disconnected systems
• Experience working with MBSE/DE and Modeling/Simulation teams
• Experience with threat-informed engineering, resilience analysis, or mission assurance

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

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/Polygraph

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$172,800 - $216,000 - $259,200 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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