Software Research Engineer

Software Research Engineer Job Location s

US-MD-Silver Spring | US-NJ-Basking Ridge

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 Labs' 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)

Peraton Labs is seeking a talented Software Research Engineer to join our high performing team. This position is onsite (at least three days a week) and may include occasional travel to customer sites.

What You'll Do:

• Work in a dynamic environment, requiring professional and effective interactions and communications
• Be a developer on the front line of the research, development, design, and deployment of an existing application
• Responsible for designing, testing, coding, and developing solutions to meet customer needs; ensuring software continues to function normally through software maintenance, upgrade, and testing; documenting the application, service, and environment as a reference for future operations and maintenance, including version and platform upgrades
• Participate in design reviews, peer code reviews, and documentation for regular software releases
• Connect with other project developers to ensure efficient data flow between supporting/supported data sources, utilizing API development
• Collaborate to prototype and operationalize mission tools

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years with BS/BA;
  Minimum of 3 years with MS/MA;
  Minimum of 0 years with Ph.D.
• 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, MacOS, Windows, and mobile operating systems, platforms and internals
• Working knowledge of modern computer networking technologies
• Experience with Dev Ops and Agile development methodologies and toolsets (Git, subversion, CI/CD)
• Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility
• US Citizenship

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

• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Data Science and Data-driven Analytics
  • Threat analysis and research
  • Computer networking protocol design and/or analysis
  • Compute and network emulation, containerization, and virtualization
  • Security controls and authorization
• Experience with one or more of the following classes of tools and frameworks:
  • Vector Packet Processor (VPP) platform
  • Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK)
  • ELK Stack implementation (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • Flask API or similar API architectures; REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.
  • Container and Orchestration solutions, including Docker and Kubernetes
  • Automation tools, including Ansible playbooks
  • Linux/Command Line Terminal familiarity with scripting (Bash/Python)
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript and related technologies
  • Network traffic generation tools, including Scapy
  • Network emulation frameworks, including CORE
• Cloud Data Work:
  • ETL pipeline development
  • Automation tools
  • Containerization and Orchestration
  • Databases, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • Experience with platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Networking
  
  Skills:
  • Knowledge and skills in the fundamentals of IP and core IP technologies
  • Knowledge in basic networking and application protocols (e.g., routing, VLANs, VPNs, switching, multicast, etc.)
  • Experience in IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP, routing, encapsulation, packet analysis tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, and tshark
  • Ability to read and understand a network infrastructure diagram and troubleshoot network issues
  • Experience supporting production or enterprise network environments
• Experience in the U.S. DoD/IC research community
• Experience with CNO (offensive/defensive), including red teaming, network tactics, and tradecraft
• Experience in business development, including technical marketing, idea generation, and authoring whitepapers and proposals for new work
• Willingness to travel to operational sites (CONUS/OCONUS) to support operations, troubleshooting, test events, and training work.

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