Senior Principal Engineer for Applied Cyber Resiliency Engineeri

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The Cyber Resilience and Cross Domain Engineering department works across MITRE's cyber resilience portfolio spans resilient systems engineering, Zero Trust, mission engineering, enterprise security architecture, cross domain engineering, mission assurance, cyber survivability, secure cloud architectures, and AI-enabled cyber defense. The department integrates resilience engineering principles across complex systems to enable sponsors to sustain mission effectiveness despite cyber attacks, operational disruption, and rapidly evolving threat environments.



The primary roles and responsibilities for this Senior Principal Engineer will be the following:

• Establish and execute MITRE's long-term engineering vision for applied cyber resilience across complex mission systems and critical infrastructure.
• Define technical strategies that integrate cyber resilience engineering principles into system architecture, mission engineering, enterprise modernization, cloud adoption, software engineering, operational technology, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Lead the development of innovative engineering approaches that enable systems to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to sophisticated cyber attacks while maintaining mission effectiveness.
• Advance engineering methods that integrate cyber resilience with Zero Trust, secure-by-design principles, software assurance, supply chain risk management, digital engineering, AI-enabled systems, and resilient communications.
• Develop engineering frameworks that enable sponsors to measure, evaluate, and improve mission resilience, operational resilience, and cyber survivability across enterprise and tactical environments.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering efforts to develop resilient architectures supporting defense, intelligence, civilian government, and critical infrastructure missions.
• Shape national approaches for engineering resilient systems by advising senior government leaders on resilience strategies, architecture modernization, mission assurance, technology investments, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Conceive, champion, and establish new engineering capabilities, approaches and tools that position MITRE several years ahead of sponsor demand while advancing the practice of cyber resilience engineering.
• Leverage modeling, simulation, digital engineering, mission analysis, and operational experimentation to evaluate resilience across complex systems and guide investment decisions.
• Expand MITRE's impact through technology transition, engineering frameworks, reference architectures, sponsor engagement, publications, and collaboration that advance national cyber resilience.
• Influence the direction of national cyber resilience through leadership in standards organizations, interagency initiatives, advisory committees, technical working groups, and strategic partnerships.
• Define and evolve MITRE's long-term technical strategy for applied cyber resilience engineering across the Cyber Engineering Division, MITRE Labs, and MITRE's FFRDC Program Divisions.
• Provide strategic technical leadership across sponsor programs, corporate research investments, independent research initiatives, and emerging technology areas.
• Foster technical collaboration across MITRE and establish enduring partnerships with government, industry, academia, federally funded laboratories, and standards organizations

• Master's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 15+ years of experience in relevant domain.
• Proven technical depth and recognized external technical stature in a breadth of technologies within the Cyber Resiliency technical capability area, including commercial products, emerging tools, research capabilities, etc.
• Track record of technical innovation (research, innovation, etc.) with demonstrable impact.
• Demonstrated ability to define and lead collaborative efforts both within, and across, different organizations and stakeholders (local, sponsor, industry, etc.).
• Track record of successful project management (scoping, costing, execution, delivery, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships across organizational units.
• Track record of successfully mentoring technical staff, including experience in leading high-performing teams.
• History of successful project initiation (definition, scoping, aligning to need, costing, etc.) and project management (execution, staffing, schedule management, delivery, quality review, etc.).
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearance.
• Secret clearance with ability to obtain Top-Secret.
• Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

• Twenty or more years of progressively responsible experience conducting engineering, development, and application of resilience capabilities or technologies.
• Recognized technical authority in one or more areas including applied cyber resiliency, resiliency-enhancing technologies, NIST 800-160 V2 SP, resilience training and advanced table-top exercises.
• Experience in the intersection of cyber resiliency with one or more areas including enterprise security architecture, cyber threat, adversary emulation, cyber deception, defensive cyber operations, systems engineering, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated record of defining technical direction for programs, research initiatives, or technology transitions.

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