Job Description

Program Overview

About The Role

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 Lab’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)

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience with BS/BA; 0 years with MS/MA
• 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, and Windows operating systems, platforms and internals
• Working knowledge of modern development practices and toolsets (Git, subversion, CI/CD toolchains)
• Prior experience with prototype software development for RF spectrum planning and management applications
• Ability to obtain Secret Clearance
• US Citizenship

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

• Experience as a technical lead on software development projects or research teams
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Experience with DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF), including requirements and implementation of cybersecurity controls
• Compute and network emulation, containerization, and virtualization
• DevOps and Agile development methodologies

• Experience with one or more of the following classes of tools and frameworks:

• Container and Orchestration solutions, including: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Cloud services experience (AWS, Azure, OpenStack)

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at

Application Duration Statement: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. 

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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