Chief Engineer, Digital Investigations

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.

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The Digital Investigations Department focuses on transforming digital data into actionable understanding for investigative and law enforcement purposes. We combine technical analysis, investigative tradecraft, data analytics, and mission context to answer difficult questions, reconstruct events, identify malicious activity, reveal relationships, and support operational decision-making.

Our staff work across a range of digital investigation specialties, including digital evidence and forensics, open-source and digital intelligence, investigative analytics, adversary and activity analysis, operational investigations, and the development of new investigative capabilities and tradecraft.

• Digital Investigations

• Digital Forensics

• Digital Asset and Blockchain Operations

• Attribution and Darkweb

These capabilities will be inclusive of Digital/Media/Mobile Device Access and Forensics, Digital Artifact Discovery, Digital Evidence Processing, Cryptocurrency Analysis and Seizure, Cyber Attribution, Darkweb Research, Financial Cybercrime Analysis, and Social Media Exploitation.

The successful candidate is a proven technical leader with demonstrated technical expertise in these areas, demonstrated expertise working with law enforcement, inspirational leadership, creativity, and the flexibility to work across evolving and diverse problems sets.

The CE will collaborate with Division Chief Engineers, Department Managers, and other Capability CEs to bring capabilities to bear on MITRE’s FFRDC work programs. The CE, in coordination with the Cyber Operations Division CE, will be accountable for the utility and quality of the capabilities, including physical and virtual lab infrastructure, and shared frameworks and technical approaches. While not a formal people-management role, the CE will contribute to staff development and provide technical mentorship across the department.

In addition to direct work programs within the FFRDCs, the CE will engage with the internal research and development program, to influence and shape the research priorities and programs as well as mentor and guide staff all the way from the ideation phase through to proposing and executing internal research projects.

The CE will also provide individual, senior principal technical support directly to MITRE’s work programs. The CE’s time spent on direct sponsor contributions should be in technical leadership within the set of department capabilities.

• Lead technical quality efforts and contribute to development/adoption of technical quality…