Intelligence, Strategy, and Policy Associate (Intelligence Center)

Position description

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That’s because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation’s toughest challenges—and we’re committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We’re making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

Within MITRE’s Intelligence Center the Strategy and Policy Department has the mission to enhance our sponsors’ policy formulation, planning, and strategy execution across the national security enterprise through all-source intelligence and resource analysis that informs decision-making to address threats in an era of strategic competition. Our vision is to guide the formulation and implementation of strategy and policy that enables sponsor transformation and addresses emerging national and global challenges by unlocking the full potential of intelligence analysis to advance the missions of our sponsors. The Department is accountable and responsible for programs with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

The department is seeking to fill an Intelligence, Strategy, and Policy Associate position based at MITRE Headquarters in McLean, VA. Qualified candidates will have a strong intelligence background with some demonstrated technical experience in advancing intelligence analysis, and intelligence mission planning capabilities. The successful candidate must be able to work collaboratively with an integrated, federated MITRE team demonstrating strong teamwork and cooperation.  The selected individual will be expected to work closely with MITRE teams and with military and civilian government experts to address their critical mission needs, document operational needs, and develop advanced solutions to address sponsor mission challenges and capability gaps.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development and delivery of impactful MITRE work on one or more projects through presentations, briefings, technical research, and written deliverables
• Support the development of a variety of analytical models to sponsor challenges
• Drive sponsor thinking and strategy in terms of ‘modernizing’ intelligence support
• Work with teams to produce concrete short-term tangible outputs that make progress towards larger, impactful outcomes

Qualifications

Basic 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.
• Prior intelligence or defense related internship experience
• Understanding of relevant topics: the intelligence cycle, open-source (OSINT) research, Department of Defense operations, the organizations of the intelligence community and their roles
• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI level security clearance, including polygraph
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week.
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI level security clearance, including polygraph
• Significant academic background in a field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, Political Science, International Relations, or Public Policy
• Experience with data analysis languages and programs such as Python, Tableau, Rapid Miner, Excel, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to manipulate large datasets and perform calculations with modern programming languages like Python (scikit-learn, tensorflow), C++, R, or Java
• Prior experience working with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j)
• Excellent analytical, written, and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated technical skills as applied to intelligence requirements with a strong knowledge of the intelligence community and intelligence processes
   

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/Polygraph

Application instructions

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