Cybersecurity Research Engineer - RE/DSP

Peraton•Basking Ridge, NJ

8d•$146,000 - $234,000

About The Position

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 Labs 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).

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of experience with BS/BA; 6 years with MS/MA; 3 years with PhD
Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or related scientific/engineering discipline.
Expertise in reverse engineering and digital signal processing
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)
Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
US Citizenship

Nice To Haves

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, Computer networking protocol design and/or analysis, Computer and network emulation, containerization, and virtualization, Reverse Engineering, Real-Time Operation Systems (RTOS), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Experience with one or more of the following classes of tools and frameworks: Binary Analysis Tools, such as GHIDRA, Hex-Rays IDA, Binary Ninja, Angr; Debugging and Sandboxing tools, such as Cuckoo sandbox, OllyDBG, WinDbg; CNO toolsets, including Metasploit, Cobalt Strike; Network emulation frameworks including CORE, EMANE, MiniNet; Container and Orchestration solutions, including: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Terraform; Cloud services experience (AWS, Azure, OpenStack)
Experience with DevOps and Agile development methodologies
Experience in the U.S. DoD/IC research community
CNO operational experience

Responsibilities

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)