Cybersecurity Research Engineer

Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers.

With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore , and Telcordia, our experts pave the way.

Peraton Lab’s cybersecurity research protects mission-critical systems and national cyber infrastructure through a broad range of initiatives in computer network defense, secure-by-design techniques and cyber operations and experimentation platforms.

Our projects span several areas of interest.

Our core competencies include (but are not limited to):

• Program analysis, including program understanding, vulnerability identification, and remediation
• Malware analysis and reverse engineering
• Resilient networking in support of cyber mission goals
• Software-defined networking for cyber defense and deception
• Artificial intelligence (reasoning, probabilistic inference, machine learning
• 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or related scientific/engineering discipline.
• Ability and desire to quickly acquire knowledge of new subject matter areas
• Expertise in one or more of: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, or similar languages
• Working knowledge of Linux, MacOS, Windows, and mobile operating systems, platforms and internals
• Working knowledge of modern computer networking technologies
• Working knowledge of modern development practices and toolsets (Git, subversion, CI/CD toolchains)
• US citizenship
• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI

Other Relevant Skills (not required, but any are a plus):

• Experience as a technical lead on software development projects or research teams
• Experience as a Principal Investigator on DoD/IC research projects
• Experience in business development, including technical marketing, idea generation, and authoring whitepapers and proposals for new work.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Program Analysis