Cyber Investigations Engineer – Malware Analysis & Reverse Engineering
The Mitre Corporation · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Chantilly, Virginia, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Senior
- $159K–$238K per year
- 3–8 years
The selected candidate will serve as an onsite technical liaison between MITRE and a federal law enforcement sponsor, providing hands-on expertise in malware analysis, reverse engineering, and cyber investigations.
Compensation
Salary compensation range and midpoint: $158,800 - $198,500 - $238,200 Annual
Responsibilities
- Perform static and dynamic analysis of malicious software, including compiled binaries, scripts, and other executable artifacts, to understand functionality, identify malicious behaviors, extract indicators, and assess potential relationships to known malware families or campaigns.
- Examine executable file formats, assembly instructions, memory structures, operating system interactions, obfuscation techniques, packing methods, and other low-level software characteristics to understand how malicious code operates and identify artifacts relevant to investigations.
- Use debuggers, disassemblers, decompilers, sandboxes, and other specialized tools to investigate malware samples, overcome analysis challenges, and develop repeatable approaches for examining complex or unfamiliar malicious software.
- Provide technical analysis in support of cybercrime and other investigative missions, including identifying relationships among malware samples, digital artifacts, network infrastructure, and adversary activity. Apply investigative awareness to produce findings that can support operational decisions and investigative leads.
- Examine relevant host, network, memory, and filesystem artifacts to reconstruct malicious activity, understand execution and persistence mechanisms, and identify evidence or indicators that may support ongoing investigations.