MITRE’s New Professionals
Join one of MITRE’s New Professionals programs and ignite your technical passion and career. MITRE’s New Professionals Programs prepare highly talented technical staff for exciting and challenging careers in national security, intelligence, cyber, data analytics, engineering, and artificial intelligence to improve the safety, stability, and well-being of our nation.
Do you have a passion for solving complex problems? Are you interested in making the world a safer place? Do you want to shape how technology will change the world for the better? Check out the MITRE’s New Professional programs!
Our programs:
- Offer custom-designed onboarding, mentoring, and work opportunities
- Build your skills as a future MITRE servant leader
- Run from six months to two years depending on the domain you choose
MITRE, a not-for-profit organization, works in the public interest across federal, state, and local governments, as well as industry and academia. We discover new possibilities and bring innovative ideas into existence in areas as varied as artificial intelligence, data science, quantum information science, health informatics, space security, public policy and economics, trustworthy autonomy, cyber threat sharing, and cyber resilience.
While participating in our programs, you can channel your particular talents into solving national problems that are meaningful to you.
Onboarding
An intensive, experiential kickstart in which you will:
- Learn practical information about working at MITRE
- Surround yourself with a cohort of early career visionaries
- Further your technical, leadership, and mission domain learning through special classes and teambuilding
- Network with senior leadership and learn first-hand about MITRE’s impact
Mentoring
Focused mentoring with national security leaders and experts in your field, during which you will:
- Collaborate with a mentor in a program that includes coaching for technical skills development, reverse mentoring (you will teach what you know best!), and coaching for interpersonal engagement within our culture
- Work on a government-focused capstone project
- Develop skills in servant leadership and customer engagement
Work Program
An in-depth rotational work program, during which you will:
- Contribute to sponsor-facing projects supporting varied government agencies or military services and diverse national security challenges
- Contribute to MITRE Innovation Program research projects
- Build a network and explore areas of interest by connecting with colleagues
- Gain sufficient experience to select the right path for yourself
Onboarding
- Learn practical information about working at MITRE
- Surround yourself with a cohort of early career visionaries
- Further your technical, leadership, and mission domain learning through special classes and teambuilding
- Network with senior leadership and learn first-hand about MITRE’s impact
Mentoring
- Collaborate with a mentor in a program that includes coaching for technical skills development, reverse mentoring (you will teach what you know best!), and coaching for interpersonal engagement within our culture
- Work on a government-focused capstone project
- Develop skills in servant leadership and customer engagement
Work Program
- Contribute to sponsor-facing projects supporting varied government agencies or military services and diverse national security challenges
- Contribute to MITRE Innovation Program research projects
- Build a network and explore areas of interest by connecting with colleagues
- Gain sufficient experience to select the right path for yourself

Dr. Michael A. Balazs
MNS New Professionals Accelerator Manager & Chief Futurist Autonomy
For more information on the MNS New Professionals Accelerator, contact us at newprofessionals@mitre.org.
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