Microelectronics Security Data Scientist

Riverside Research Institute•Bath Township, OH

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country’s most challenging technical problems. All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship. The Riverside Research Engineering and Support Solutions (ESS) directorate conducts Research and Development (R&D) of cyber-physical attacks against embedded systems. As a Microelectronics Security Data Scientist, you will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of research engineers and scientists on a wide range of microelectronics research projects. You will work directly with a team of hardware security research subject matter experts (SME), the senior Principal Investigator, Technical Lead, and Program Manager to support various project-specific research projects developing solutions to complex, open-ended hardware security problems. The position is in Dayton, OH and requires each employee to possess and maintain a security clearance. Remote work is not available for this position. Travel is not expected to exceed two to four times a year.

Requirements

A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, 3 years with a Masters degree, a PhD without experience, or equivalent work experience is typically required for an employee at this level.
Secret clearance required to start, but must be able obtain Top Secret security clearance and all required program access approvals
Expertise with machine learning in one or more of the following: Unsupervised Learning, Bayesian classifiers, Regression, Random Forests, Deep Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Belief Propagation, Statistical Inference, Dimensionality Reduction
Proficient in Python and popular data science libraries (NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib, etc.)
Demonstrated experience across the full data science lifecycle, for classification/regression, clustering, basic text analytics, image recognition, or other related applications.
Experience presenting technical material to both technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to manage timelines, product delivery, and product quality for research projects
Willing to work in a secure US Government facility
Interest in solving open-ended research challenges
Willing to travel 2-4 times per year
Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., computer engineering, electrical engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, physics, or other STEM fields) and 5 years' experience, or Master’s Degree in a related discipline and 3 years' experience, or a PhD in a related discipline

Nice To Haves

Active DoD Top Secret (TS) or equivalent US Government security clearance
Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar Deep Learning framework
Experience with parallel and distributed processing of large data sets across multiple GPUs
Experience with data transformations such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
Experience using revision control software
Experience leading a small technical team on research projects
Understanding of information theory and its application to cryptographic algorithms
Understanding of signal processing is highly desired
Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., computer engineering, electrical engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, physics, or other STEM fields) and 8 years' experience, or Master’s Degree in a related discipline and 3 years' experience, or 3 years' practical experience with a PhD in a related discipline

Responsibilities

Conduct research in the application of data science, including deep learning and complex statistical data analysis, for problems within microelectronic hardware security
Perform all aspects of the data science lifecycle; gather requirements from non-data science technical staff, propose technical approaches, pre-process data, perform exploratory data analysis, model the data, critically evaluate performance of the model, and present findings
Develop whitepapers and presentations to communicate research findings
Contributes to proposals for new research in similar and/or related technology areas
Provide technical mentorship to junior researchers supporting your programs
Works collaboratively with customers, multi-disciplinary research partners and Riverside Research business, engineering, and technology teams on complex research and development projects