Associate Data and AI Engineer

The MITRE Corporation • Mclean, VA • 1w ago

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges-and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day-working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us.

Department Summary:

Join the "Data Engineering and Environments Department (L146)" in MITRE Labs and build secure, scalable data foundations and solutions across the federal government. Our mission-focused data capabilities include modernizing data ecosystems, enabling secure data access and interoperability, and engineering resilient computing environments. Our team delivers impactful solutions that strengthen national defense and civilian missions, from joint warfighting and cyber defense to public safety and transportation. We turn complex data environments into decisive advantage.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Design, build, and deploy modern data pipelines to support structured, unstructured, streaming, and multimodal mission datasets

Develop and enhance data ingestion, transformation, and integration workflows within distributed data environments

Assist in defining data models, integration patterns, schemas, metadata, and cataloging structures across distributed environments

Help document architecture decisions, trade-off analyses, and blueprint artifacts to support stakeholder communication

Support evaluation of emerging technologies, analytics platforms, and commercial products to align with mission requirements

Conduct exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and algorithm assessment to support rapid prototyping and mission experimentation

Apply modern Data and AI techniques to automate testing, deployment, and monitoring across development lifecycles

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate operational challenges into technical implementation paths

Basic Qualifications:

Ability to obtain and maintain at least a Secret clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship

Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills

Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Python, SQL, R, or equivalent languages for data retrieval, processing and analysis

Familiarity and knowledge with machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn) and analytical tooling

Familiarity and knowledge using one or more of the following modern data technologies such as Containerization, Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Airflow, distributed databases

Familiarity with any cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience is a plus

This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance

Experience with ingesting and retrieving data from various databases/sources, visualization and reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Superset

Experience developing production-grade data or ML pipelines

Ability to build trusted relationships with internal and external mission partners

Experience with system modeling such as use case diagram, class diagrams to represent systems and high-level functions /interactions using any modeling tool is a plus

Knowledge of MLOps/DevSecOps tools, CI/CD workflows, and Containerization

Familiarity with data governance, metadata cataloging, or standards-based interoperability

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):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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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Benefits information may be found here (https://careers.mitre.org/us/en/benefits) .

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