Strategic Effects Intern

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Job Description:

Integrate MITRE’s strategic non-kinetic cyber, economic, and influence activities into comprehensive strategies that provide our sponsors with strategic solutions to counter complex, multi-domain threats and deliver measurable outcomes across the competition, crisis, and conflict spectrum

Job Responsibilities:

Research and leverage technology, policy, and economic topics.

Assist in the development of systems-level architectures for command and control and the intel-dev-ops of cyber, econ, and influence effects.

Assist in the development of strategies that integrate cyber, economic, and influence activities.

Basic Qualifications:

• Sustained excellence in academic performance
• Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in national security, cyber security, or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
• Have studied domestic, foreign, or economic policy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated interest in serving the public
• Software development or data analytics skills
• Artificial Intelligence/Large Language Model prompt engineering

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

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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