Cyber Effects Group Lead

Overview:

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation.

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Summary:

Draper’s Cyber Effects Group is seeking a Group Leader to lead and execute current and future reverse engineering, tool development, and cyber effects projects across a variety of domains supporting the United States of America's national interest. Due to the variety of USG organizational needs, our technical efforts and opportunities vary from conventional cyber operations enablement tooling to embedded vulnerability research and exploit development on a wide range of devices and systems.

We are looking for enthusiastic leader to grow our staff and programs and innovate for the greater good of our Nation's security. As the Group Leader of the Draper Cyber Effects team, you will drive the design and development of cyber software tools and capabilities, perform static and dynamic analysis on diverse firmware and software, and share your expertise with others via mentoring and technical leadership opportunities.

You will champion a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in a wide array of technologies and skills such as embedded systems, compiler theory, threat intelligence, fuzzing, binary analysis, and vulnerability research.

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities Manage administrative details and career development for group members.

Convey relevant information from management to group members.

Lead, mentor, build depth in their area of expertise, and conduct performance evaluations of group members.

Maintain awareness of staffing requirements, write job requisitions (responsibilities and qualifications) for hiring as required, review and disposition incoming resumes, conduct interviews.

Serve as Lead Subject Matter Expert for area of specialty.

Shape Draper’s technology offerings and open new business areas based on program and technical experience.

Analyze Draper strategy and work with management to build capability in key areas that align Draper's capabilities with customers' strategic priorities.

Maintain cognizance of group member activity and address issues.

Conduct performance evaluations of group members.

Skills/Abilities Excellent communication and written skills.

Excellent ability with presenting technical material to various levels of the engineering organization and customers.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

Strong ability to supervise a team of 10-20.Education Requires a degree in Engineering or related discipline.

Experience7+ years of experience in the engineering; design, development, and management of complex systems.

Additional

Job Description:

Management and oversight of roughly 15 (and growing) staff including hiring, promotions, annual reviews, staffing, mentoring, and growth.

Contribute to Draper cyber strategy, R&D, and business winning opportunities.

Plan, lead, and execute cyber programs that involve frequent client communication, hands on development with teammates, and a solid grasp on project management and leadership skills.

Collaborate and communicate effectively and openly with multi-disciplinary program team members, program leadership, and non-technical personnel.

Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction – contribute to requirements. development, propose ways forward, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements.

Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.

Build tools and capabilities for the purpose of achieving cyber effects goals on a broad range of boutique embedded systems or standard compute.

Perform deep reverse engineering of interconnected systems for the purpose of identifying cyber effects…