Senior Research Scientist - Cyber Network Security

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Peraton Labs is seeking a poly cleared Senior Research Scientist to support cleared research and development efforts for a Maryland-based customer. This role will focus on the research, design, development, and demonstration of advanced network security prototypes across classified and unclassified environments. This position is ideal for a hands‑on researcher or senior engineer who can combine software development, networking, automation, virtualization, and cyber systems knowledge to rapidly build mission‑focused prototypes.

Within this role you will work in a dynamic R&D environment, collaborate directly with government leadership and technical stakeholders, and help shape next‑generation research efforts in cyber network defense, secure networking, experimentation platforms, and emerging network technologies.

• Research, design, develop, and demonstrate network security prototypes for government research customers
• Develop software, scripts, tools, documentation, and test environments to demonstrate new cyber and networking capabilities
• Build prototypes involving high‑speed networks, wireless networks, cloud infrastructure, containers, virtualized environments, and network function virtualization
• Design and integrate large‑scale experimentation environments using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, Open Stack, Vagrant, or similar tools
• Support research involving network protocols, traffic analysis, network monitoring, data collection, cyber defense, secure‑by‑design networking, and cyber operations
• Apply software development skills in languages such as Python, Go, Java, C/C++, or similar
• Work with government leadership and technical stakeholders to shape research direction, explain technical approaches, and identify new prototype opportunities
• Collaborate with government, Peraton Labs, and contractor teams to integrate research prototypes into larger experimentation platforms
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and refine prototypes in fast‑moving R&D environments
• Document…