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The Cyber Operations and Effects Innovation Center seeks a Chief Engineer (CE) who will integrate across the division, partner government-facing divisions, MITRE Labs, and government and industry stakeholders to lead critical technical aspects of the work program. The CE will be a core leader in enabling the mission strategy of the eight Cyber Operations and Effects Capability Areas: Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Cyber Analytics and Malware, Cyber Adversary Emulation, Cyber Deception and Adversary Engagement, Cyber Forensics, and Autonomous Cyber Operations, and Offensive Non-Kinetics.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Technical Quality:
- Lead technical quality efforts and development of technical quality standards within Cyber Operations and related Capability Areas.
- Partner with business and people leadership, including quality of staff hired, development of staff, and training initiatives to ensure appropriate technical quality is achieved.
- Drive technical quality across the Cyber Operations technical area and related missions.
- Drive technical quality across the center, across multi-disciplines.
- Technical Impact:
- Ensure the technical strength of the work program by shaping its content, participating in technical product definition and reviews.
- Ensure individual projects are driving change at a technical level.
- Regularly publish material, or actively support the publishing of others.
- Drive MITRE and the sponsor to new heights technically.
- Strategy Development:
- Develop and lead execution of the mission or technical strategy and core competency areas.
- Develop the strategy for enhancing a technical specialty within MITRE.
- Drive MITRE’s development of technical capabilities, including identifying new areas to develop.
- Staff Development:
- Mentor and develop technical staff.
- Lead efforts in deliberately growing the organization’s core competency areas.
- Conduct staff development and provide input into talent assessment and development planning.
- Partnerships and Initiatives:
- Develop and maintain relationships with key technical leaders across MITRE Program Divisions.
- Work with other Chief Engineers and MITRE’s internal R&D program.
- Coordinate technical outreach to industry, academia, and other stakeholders.
- Lead cross-Center technical initiatives.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s of Science degree with 15 years of related experience, Master’s of Science degree with 12 years of related experience, PhD with 10 years of related experience.
- Minimum of seven years of leadership/mentorship experience leading technical teams and large projects.
- Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills.
- Proven experience engaging senior sponsors with successful impacts and outcomes.
- Personal, hands-on technical depth in at least one of the Cyber Operations and Effects Capability Areas.
- Active Top-Secret Clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Personal, hands-on technical depth in at least three of the Cyber Operations and Effects Capability Areas.
- A proven history of creatively injecting innovation into projects.
- Strong evidence of a mission and public service focus.
- Mentoring experience and academic outreach experience.
- Cursory knowledge of the FFRDC role and MITRE’s project leader business processes.
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively across diverse sponsors/stakeholders.
- Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with current Polygraph
Work Location Type: Onsite
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