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Department Summary:

The N921 Command Priorities Department, part of the National and Defense Intelligence Division, helps the Combatant Command Intelligence Directorates (J2) mitigate critical gaps and shortfalls, identify relevant emerging technologies, and create advanced solutions to address mission challenges.

Roles & Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as a senior computer scientist, working to resolve the most difficult mission challenges faced by the Combatant Command Intelligence Directorates. Qualified candidates will have a strong Combatant Command or Intelligence Community background with demonstrated technical experience in advancing intelligence analysis, data analytics, and intelligence mission planning capabilities. As a computer scientist you will serve as a member of a team of MITRE professionals focused on leveraging various tools, data architectures and traditional/non-traditional data sources to solve critical intelligence gaps and be required to:

• Providing direct support to Combatant Command Intelligence Directorates through technical recommendations and assistance with all-source analysis and Common Intelligence Picture (CIP) solutions, and facilitating the integration of traditional and non-traditional (PAI, CAI, etc) data sets

• Providing recommendations and assessments for the adoption of various large language models, entity extraction resolution, audio transcription, and other data analytic techniques

• Participating as part of a MITRE team to define, resolve, and deliver solutions to the most pressing technical challenges faced by the J2

• Reviewing, recommending, and sustaining an effort to assist the J2 as they seek to improve situational awareness of the threat in support of operational requirements, and the full range of mission partners

• Maintaining effective and responsive communications with MITRE leadership team, ensuring the accurate exchange of information essential to sustaining our strong relationship with the J2

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph

• 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

• A strong understanding of intelligence support to the warfighter, the organizations of the Intelligence community, and their responsibilities in support of intelligence collection, analysis, processing, and dissemination in order to support Commander priorities

• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer science (or related science, technology, engineering, or math field)

• Strong knowledge of intelligence processes and systems in use or relied upon by a Combatant Command J2

• Recent programming experience with Python, R, Java and SQL

• Recent experience with DevOps processes and associated tools (Git, docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, etc)

• Recent experience with multi-domain intelligence data (PAI, CAI, traditional Intel), data processing (data pipelines, structuring, models), data storage, data governance, data transformation (APIs, transformation, data fusion), and data visualization

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

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

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

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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