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Peraton

Director, Research Science

basking ridge, NJ

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About this opportunity

Peraton lists this Director, Research Science opportunity in basking ridge, New Jersey. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

MS and 16+ years of experience

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

Working knowledge of modern development practices and toolsets (Git, subversion, CI/CD toolchains)

US citizenship

Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

Other Relevant Skills (not required, but any are a plus):

Experience as a technical lead on software development projects or research teams

Experience as a Principal Investigator on DoD/IC research projects

Experience in business development, including technical marketing, idea generation, and authoring whitepapers and proposals for new work.

Experience in one or more of the following areas: Program Analysis

Computer networking protocol design and/or analysis

Compute and network emulation, containerization, and virtualization

Reverse Engineering

Real-Time Operation Systems (RTOS)

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

Experience with one or more of the following classes of tools and frameworks: Binary Analysis Tools, such as GHIDRA, Hex-Rays IDA, Binary Ninja, Angr,

Debugging and Sandboxing tools, such as Cuckoo sandbox, OllyDBG, WinDbg

CNO toolsets, including Metasploit, Cobalt Strike

Network emulation frameworks including CORE, EMANE, MiniNet

Container and Orchestration solutions, including: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Terraform

Cloud services experience (AWS, Azure, OpenStack)

Experience with DevOps and Agile development methodologies

Experience in the U.S. DoD/IC research community

CNO operational experience

PeratonLabsdelivers 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.PeratonLab’s 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)

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Worksite address

basking ridge, NJ, 07920, US

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