Software Engineer Associate

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:

The Analysis Innovation Department within MITRE’s Intelligence Center develops creative solutions to evolve complex, mission essential capabilities, bringing expertise in developing analytic solutions, data science, and workforce and business process maturation. We define, architect, design and prototype creative ways to integrate and fuse all-source intelligence and new sources of data to empower analysts and inform the programmatic and technical direction of new and existing programs.

The Department develops unique ways to receive and integrate all-source intelligence, increase sharing of tactical and strategic intelligence, support situational awareness and specific missions, better integrate intelligence and operations, and create products that are more useful to the consumer.

The successful candidate will be passionate about designing and developing capabilities to solve real world problems.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Write clean, functional code on the front-end and back-end
• Develop applications using a range of different technologies and languages (including 2 or more: Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, C#)
• Work with a team to propose and design data analytics
• Implement emerging technologies and capabilities
• Present work and findings to both technical and non-technical audiences both verbally and in written form

Basic Qualifications:

• Active or recent TS/SCI with Polygraph level
• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or related technical field
• Demonstrated experience developing in Python, Java, C++
• Prior experience developing data-intensive full stack containerized web applications using Node.js, Flask, Django, or other technologies
• Experience developing interactive data visualizations using open source web technologies (Angular, Vue, React, D3.js) or other frameworks (Shiny, Dash)
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Git version control software
• Experience with containerized services and orchestration tools (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
• Experience building web applications using languages such as JavaScript (Vue, React), Django, and R-Shiny
• Experience with HTTP REST, HTTP SOAP, AJAX, web services, and related emerging web standards.
• Experience with big data, distributed systems, cloud platforms (Hadoop, AWS, Spark, Kafka, etc.), and microservices
• Familiarity with working in cloud-based environments like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure and their machine learning tools.
• Experience visualizing multi-dimensional data using tools like Tableau, ggplot2, Plotly, matplotlib, seaborn, or D3.js

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$86,000 - $107,500 - $129,000 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.

MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org for general support and collegerecruiting@mitre.org for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply.

Benefits information may be found here.

Copyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.