Mid-Level Cybersecurity Scientist

Responsibilities

• Help the group design innovative security solutions including:
  • Innovative parsers
  • Novel data protocol protections
  • Secure-by-design system architectures
• Lead contracts as a principal investigator, transitioning existing tools and creating new tools for DoD use cases
• Build new tools and/or capabilities in languages like C/C++, Python, and Rust
• Potential to perform business development in research focus area
• Contribute to and lead proposal development for new and shaped work
• Develop whitepapers and publish papers that document innovative work performed
• Lead team members in debugging programs, designing systems, reviewing papers, etc.
• Participate and lead relevant internal and customer meetings

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Cybersecurity and 5 years of relevant experience, 3 years and a Masters, or a PhD
• Prior experience leading technical teams in system integration
• Prior experience with one or more of the following: parser design/development, MBSE tooling, networking protocols and design
• Advanced understanding of cybersecurity problems and solutions
• Proficiency in programming languages C/C++ and Python
• Secret clearance with eligibility to obtain a TS//SCI clearance
• Desired Qualifications:
• MS or PhD degree in related technical field
• Experience shaping DoD efforts, from ideation to proposal
• Experience performing business development
• Proficiency in memory-safe programming languages such as Rust
• Healthy balance between technical orientation and business acumen
• Able to operate independently with limited supervision and feedback, and establish a solid working relationship with technical staff and peers in the group and across Riverside Research
• Superior written and verbal communications skills

Global Compensation

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Closing Statement

Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees. Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran’s status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.