R&D Cybersecurity Researcher

Idaho National Laboratory•Idaho Falls, ID

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Idaho National Laboratory is hiring a Cybersecurity Researcher to work on our Cybersecurity team. Our team works a 9x80 schedule located out of Idaho Falls, Idaho with every other Friday off. Idaho National Laboratory requires Cybersecurity Researchers to fortify the nation's infrastructure by analyzing and reverse engineering anomalous and malicious software and binaries, researching and implementing mitigation techniques and blue team methods, and providing technical solutions for defensive posturing and incident response. You'll develop and maintain custom code for analyzing network traffic and proprietary protocols, create technical solutions for national security topics including intrusion analysis and network security, identify security issues in existing control systems and applications, and develop algorithms and methods for detecting and preventing cyber attacks. Your work includes conducting penetration testing and vulnerability assessments, writing scripts and software utilities to automate security analysis, working with customers to develop requirements and documentation, participating in project teams and proposals with government and industry partners, maintaining customer relationships, authoring technical papers and reports, and participating in national and international forums for developing new cybersecurity concepts.

Requirements

Level 2: Bachelor of Science degree in a related field such as Data/Computer Science, or equivalent and 2 years of experience with AI, Machine Learning, Analyzing network and traffic analysis OR a master's degree in a related field.
Level 3: Bachelor of Science degree in a related field such as Data/Computer Science, or equivalent and 5 years of experience with AI, Machine Learning, Analyzing network and traffic analysis OR a master's degree in a related field and 2 years' experience AI, Machine Learning, Analyzing network and traffic analysis
Experience in low-level programming languages, critical system vulnerability mitigation, and network packet-level analysis.
Must be a US citizen and able to obtain and maintain a "Q" clearance with appropriate sigma’s and SCI clearance.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Experience with industrial control system environments.
Experience with low-level host and network artifact analysis.
Experience with Splunk and/or other big data tools.
Experience with robust network deployment and instrumentation.
Red and/or Blue team analysis strategy experience.
Experience with AI and ML to help analyze network traffic.

Responsibilities

Analyze and reverse engineer anomalous/malicious software and binaries.
Research and implement mitigation techniques and latest blue team methods.
Provide technical solutions for defensive posturing and incident response actions.
Develop and maintain custom code for analyzing network traffic and proprietary protocols.
Develop technical solutions for national security topics including intrusion analysis, malware, network security, and data visualization.
Identify security issues in existing control systems, platforms, and applications.
Develop algorithms and methods for detecting and preventing cyber-attacks.
Conduct penetration testing and vulnerability assessments.
Write scripts and develop software utilities to automate security analysis.
Work with customers to develop requirements, produce and test code, and provide documentation.
Participate in project teams for new work proposals with government, academia, and industry.
Maintain customer relationships and support requests with briefings and papers.
Author technical papers, reports, and proposals, and represent the organization in public forums.
Participate in national and international forums for developing new concepts in cybersecurity.
Other duties as assigned.