Intermediate Software Developer

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.

Do you want to develop software systems that contribute to solving our nation’s most critical problems? Do you want to be mentored by engineers and scientists that are experts in their fields? Are you passionate about best practices for delivering the highest quality software solutions?

We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world.

Come and lay the groundwork for your career ’ll work on diverse projects that support our government sponsors and benefit from numerous learning and growth opportunities. You will also be part of our New Professionals Program, where you’ll receive mentorship from experienced staff, gain exposure to MITRE work across all our domains, and continue your growth and learning through various educational and training programs.

Our workplace reflects our values. We want you to start and grow your career at MITRE so that you can experience the gratifying work, our competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth.

As an Intermediate Software Developer at MITRE, you will enjoy a collaborative environment where you work closely with others in an organization that encourages and values collaboration, mentoring, and continuous learning. You will have the opportunity to leverage and grow your hands‑on software engineering expertise as you contribute to real challenges across a variety of domains. As part of the Software Engineering Division, you will develop your software architecture and engineering skills while delivering computing capabilities to address the challenges of our sponsors.

While responding to these challenges, you will leverage and grow your hands‑on skills with software design and development, engaging in the full software engineering lifecycle using modern technologies.

You will gain experience with one or more of the following:

• Cloud Engineering
• Dev Sec Ops
• Full‑Stack Development
• Embedded Systems and Internet of Things
• Practical Applications of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and AI‑Enabled Software Engineering
• Familiarity with user‑centered design principles as applied throughout the software development cycle
• Develops wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas
• Mission‑based software engineering and deployment

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical degree with 2 years of related experience or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical degree with applied experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance.
• Demonstrated experience developing software in at least one modern programming language such as Java, JavaScript/Type Script,…