Intermediate Network Engineer

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.

Within MITRE Technology and Engineering specializes in complex network challenges vital to national well-being. Our work involves researching, developing, and applying advanced technologies in core areas such as:

• Network architecture and design
• Software-defined / Virtual networks (SDN/NFV)
• Network reliability, resilience, mission security and assurance, network data analytics
• E2E network MS&A, T&E, AFSIM
• Embedded networks (IoT, IC​S, SCADA)
• Tactical and threat-informed networking
• Machine Learning and AI-driven network analytics

By integrating deep technical expertise across these networking domains, we provide our federal sponsors with comprehensive solutions that enable their mission outcomes.

L616 Enterprise and Tactical Networking department is seeking talented Intermediate Network Engineers to make impactful contributions to mission-driven projects alongside experienced engineers and researchers. Typical activities may include:

• Develop prototypes of intelligent network capabilities in MITRE advanced labs
• Work on collaborative research teams to develop innovative solutions using commercial and MITRE developed technologies
• Conduct performance assessments of current and emerging technologies
• Execute data science research beginning at data wrangling and cleaning all the way through to reporting and visualization
• Scale solutions to work across large enterprises and large data sets
• Analyze data from network sensor systems and integrate additional data sources for improved outcomes
• Communicate technical approach and findings to internal and external stakeholders

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science related discipline
• Interest in complex multi-disciplinary problems
• Willingness and ability to learn new tools/concepts
• The candidate will engage in hands-on, mission-driven work. Responsibilities span the full solution lifecycle - from design and prototyping through testing, implementation, and monitoring - across various networking use cases and solutions
• Typically requires a minimum of 2-5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. 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 4 days a week on-site.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exposure to network programmability concepts such as software define networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and programmable data planes
• Exposure to virtualization, automation and Dev Ops architectures such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Chef and Puppet
• Abil…