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Job Responsibilities

As a cybersecurity intern, you will collaborate with experienced professionals and apply your knowledge to real-world challenges in cybersecurity and information security. The department works with reverse engineering and cyber capability development in the low-level firmware and embedded systems. Taking systems apart to understand them and utilizing that knowledge to build the capability to inspect, interact, and modify behavior for various outcomes. This hands-on opportunity will allow you to gain experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Adversary Emulation
• Deception and Adversary Engagement
• Cyber Effects and Reverse Engineering
• Cyber Forensics
• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Operational Technology Engineering and Response
• Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobile Device Security
• Engineering and Architecting Safe, Secure, and Resilient Systems
• Cyber Policy Development
• Work in a small lab setting with a task lead to perform research on firmware component for a project which could include reverse engineering with tools such as Ghidra, source code analysis, and/or dynamic instrumentation and generating a prototype in a low-level language such as C.
• Perform open source research related to the topic area to inform the task and share findings with task and project.
• Generate an end-of-internship presentation for the project, the department and intern programs on what task we undertaken and the results generated.

Basic Qualifications

• Must be a full-time student pursuing an accredited degree program in a Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related disciplines.
• Must continue to be enrolled the semester following the internship.
• Foundational knowledge in cybersecurity and/or information security methodologies, frameworks, tools and/or programming languages.
• Must have sustained excellence in academic performance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience having applied cybersecurity or information security learning in an internship, research, or lab setting.
• Demonstrated low-level development experience
• Experience in reverse engineering
• Proficiency using cybersecurity and/or information security methodologies, frameworks, tools and/or programming languages.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity operations and/or the development of cyber policies.
• Proven ability to work independently.
• Demonstrated interest in serving the public through previous work experience, volunteer activities, or other relevant engagements.

Clearance: In addition to passing MITRE’s employment background check, you may be submitted for a U.S. Government Security clearance. This is determined by the Department of Defense’s adjudicative guidelines for receiving a clearance, to include U.S. citizenship. Other jobs may require vetting for various levels of agency public trust, fitness, suitability, controlled access, and special programs access determination consistent with the work program to which you are assigned.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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