Software Research Engineer

Peraton•Silver Spring, MD

12d•$135,000 - $216,000•Hybrid

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). Peraton Labs is seeking a talented Software Research Engineer to join our high performing team. This position is onsite (at least three days a week) and may include occasional travel to customer sites.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 3 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 0 years with Ph.D.
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
Experience with DevOps and Agile development methodologies and toolsets (Git, subversion, CI/CD)
Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility
US Citizenship

Nice To Haves

Experience in one or more of the following areas: Data Science and Data-driven Analytics, Threat analysis and research, Computer networking protocol design and/or analysis, Compute and network emulation, containerization, and virtualization, Security controls and authorization
Experience with one or more of the following classes of tools and frameworks: Vector Packet Processor (VPP) platform, Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK), ELK Stack implementation (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Flask API or similar API architectures; REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc., Container and Orchestration solutions, including Docker and Kubernetes, Automation tools, including Ansible playbooks, Linux/Command Line Terminal familiarity with scripting (Bash/Python), HTML/CSS/JavaScript and related technologies, Network traffic generation tools, including Scapy, Network emulation frameworks, including CORE
Cloud Data Work: ETL pipeline development, Automation tools, Containerization and Orchestration, Databases, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Experience with platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
Networking Skills: Knowledge and skills in the fundamentals of IP and core IP technologies, Knowledge in basic networking and application protocols (e.g., routing, VLANs, VPNs, switching, multicast, etc.), Experience in IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP, routing, encapsulation, packet analysis tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, and tshark, Ability to read and understand a network infrastructure diagram and troubleshoot network issues, Experience supporting production or enterprise network environments
Experience in the U.S. DoD/IC research community
Experience with CNO (offensive/defensive), including red teaming, network tactics, and tradecraft
Experience in business development, including technical marketing, idea generation, and authoring whitepapers and proposals for new work
Willingness to travel to operational sites (CONUS/OCONUS) to support operations, troubleshooting, test events, and training work.

Responsibilities

Work in a dynamic environment, requiring professional and effective interactions and communications
Be a developer on the front line of the research, development, design, and deployment of an existing application
Responsible for designing, testing, coding, and developing solutions to meet customer needs; ensuring software continues to function normally through software maintenance, upgrade, and testing; documenting the application, service, and environment as a reference for future operations and maintenance, including version and platform upgrades
Participate in design reviews, peer code reviews, and documentation for regular software releases
Connect with other project developers to ensure efficient data flow between supporting/supported data sources, utilizing API development
Collaborate to prototype and operationalize mission tools