2027 Graduate - Engineer/Scientist - Resilient Military Systems

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory•Laurel, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking dedicated individuals to analyze and evolve the architecture, design, constraints, and cyber requirements of military platforms/systems and spacecrafts. Our team works collaboratively with industry, academia, and government to study, design, develop, implement, and test cyber capabilities applied to air, afloat, ground, and undersea military and/or tactical platforms and systems. As a member of our team, you will enhance the design of ships, subs, aircraft, spacecrafts, autonomous military systems, and weapons to increase resilience to cyberspace attacks. You will possess valuable skills in the areas of software development, systems engineering, and/or modeling and simulation. You will collaborate with team members in the definition and design of robust and resilient solutions for the acquisitions, operations and sustainment of military and tactical systems in the presence of adverse cyber environments. You can use internal funding opportunities to craft the direction of future research.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a field relevant to the duties as described.
An educational background or specialization interest in at least one of the following categories: Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, Golang, Rust, C, or C++.
Proven experience in software development, scripting, testing, and deployment, preferably in a cybersecurity context.
Experience writing, analyzing, performing gap analysis, or validating requirements in accordance with INCOSE or IEEE/ISO standards.
Experience applying data science, mathematical modeling, and/or machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to solve cybersecurity problems.
Demonstrated ability to work in teams as a leader and/or a contributor.
Proven demonstration as a critical thinker, developing solutions to complex problems.
Experience in applied research for the areas of systems/software engineering, system definition, design, and development, system architecture, requirements analysis, test and evaluation, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience with system design and prototyping novel solutions including concept development, requirements analysis, design, test and evaluation.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Ability to occasionally travel (up to 10%) and work as required in classified areas.
Able to obtain an Interim Secret level security clearance by your start date and can ultimately obtain a Top Secret level clearance.
U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Software Engineering.
Experience with computer networks and network analysis tools (e.g., Wireshark, Suite, ELK [Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana], Splunk, Suricata).
Engineering experience in the area of model-based systems engineering (MBSE), use of tools such as Cameo or other industry standard tools for developing complex systems-of-systems models.
Experience with cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., Risk Management Framework [RMF], ATT&CK, Zero Trust).
Experience developing solutions that inhibit or mitigate operational impact from cyberspace attack given constraints of funding, operations, performance and/or organization.
Hands-on experience planning, developing, and using simulation capabilities and advanced analytics for analyzing complex problems.
Experience with virtual machines, virtual networking, and/or hypervisor configuration/management (e.g., ESXi, Hyper-V).

Responsibilities

Enhance the design of ships, subs, aircraft, spacecrafts, autonomous military systems, and weapons to increase resilience to cyberspace attacks.
Possess valuable skills in the areas of software development, systems engineering, and/or modeling and simulation.
Collaborate with team members in the definition and design of robust and resilient solutions for the acquisitions, operations and sustainment of military and tactical systems in the presence of adverse cyber environments.
Use internal funding opportunities to craft the direction of future research.