Senior Multimedia Specialist

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity.

Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

The Communications and External Affairs (CXA) organization helps MITRE communicate with clarity, consistency, and impact across the audiences that matter most to our mission. The organization leads mission and enterprise communications, external affairs, executive communications, public affairs, stakeholder engagement, events, digital channels, and reputation management in support of MITRE’s public-interest mission.

The Senior Multimedia Specialist serves as an integral part of both short- and longer- form storytelling within CXA, supporting all aspects of video production, both pre- and post-production. This position requires strong organizational and storytelling skills, the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, and experience with cutting-edge AI- based audio-visual applications.

• Produce high-quality video and photography that captures key moments, events, quotes, energy, and behind-the-scenes content that helps tell the MITRE story.
• Partner with CXA and other stakeholders to tell compelling stories that simplify complex technology and other subject matter.
• Contribute to the development of visual concepts, shot lists, storyboards, scripts, and other visual storytelling approaches.
• Work with multimedia and design teams to develop repeatable production workflows that improve speed, quality, and efficiency.
• Explore new formats and AI-powered tools to modernize our video and photography efforts.
• Collaborate with extended CXA team to assess performance data to refine our video strategy, ensuring content adds value and strengthens the MITRE brand.

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Exceptional video production and post-production skills.
• Strong photography skills, including live event coverage.
• Extensive knowledge/experience with AI based audio-visual tools such as:
• ChatGPT
• Nano Banana
• Seedance
• Kling
• Eleven Labs
• Adobe Firefly
• Topaz
• Brevidy or similar tool
• Advanced video/photography skills with strong knowledge of Canon R5c and C400 cameras.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic, team-based environment and respond to changing schedules and priorities.
• Edit and assemble recorded raw material into a suitable, branded finished product ready for distribution; these materials may include camera footage, dialogue, sound effects, graphics, and special effects.
• Assist with in-studio and location shoots.
• Extensive knowledge/experience with Adobe CC Suite.
• Experience with FrameIO, Lucid Link, and various project management software.
• Advanced post-production skills, including:
• Non-linear video editing…