Forensic Cryptocurrency Investigator Security Clearance

Position: Forensic Cryptocurrency Investigator with Security Clearance
Location: Tysons Corner

Signature Federal Systems is looking for cryptocurrency experts with experience in either banking/financial investigation and/or relevant education in information systems or computer science, finance, or FINTECH. The ideal candidates will be tech-savvy analysts with data processing skills who want to grow and develop by initiating analysis on unique data sets. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to support the national security mission of the United States in the field of data analytics and financial exploitation.

The preferred candidate will have a keen understanding of virtual currencies, cryptocurrency exchanges, digital assets, and/or payment service providers. The position will leverage the candidate’s digital savvy and capacity for deep research and creativity to spot non-obvious targets and intelligence within a fluid and rapidly evolving market segment by applying data analytical tradecraft. There are 2 types of people we will consider for this role.

• Candidates with strong technical skills familiar with Python and other scripting languages and have the ability to search files and folders with regex, scripts and pattern matching.
OR

• Candidates with financial investigations backgrounds will ideally have forensic accounting knowledge or experience, understand money laundering and sanctions evasion techniques and understand know-your-customer (KYC) information, customer onboarding and identify verification methods. Knowledge of anti-money laundering guidelines such as FATF and/or jurisdiction-specific guidelines.
• Responsibilities:
- Drive operations
- Uncover leads in large data sets
- Explore acquired data for intelligence
- Build technical tools/processes to improve overall operational effectiveness
• Required Education, Experience, & Skills
- Successful candidates will have relevant education and/or training such as Information Systems or Computer Science or perhaps a business degree with emphasis on Banking, Finance, or FINTECH. Certifications with tools like Reactor or TRM would be a plus.
• Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
- Experience tracing cryptocurrency transactions, including asset flow, IP addresses and wallet software.
- Candidates with experience and/or knowledge in the following areas will move to the top of the list.
• Money Services
- Understanding how ACH and SWIFT messaging works
- Understanding how payment service providers work, such as Paypal or Payoneer
- Understanding how cryptocurrency is converted into fiat. Cryptocurrency

• Understanding blockchains and how they work
- Merkle trees
- Centralized versus decentralized exchanges
- Cryptocurrency mining and how it works
- Proof of work vice proof of stake
- Public Key cryptography
- Role of updates such as BIP numbers, ERC
20 improvements
• Cryptocurrency wallets
- How different types of cryptocurrency wallets work, such as software, hardware, custodial, non-custodial
- Advantages/disadvantages of each wallet type
- Private keys versus public keys
- Seed phrases
• Cryptocurrency transactions
- Visibility of transactions on the blockchain
- Role of nodes in cryptocurrency transactions
- How fees work
- Peer-to-Peer transactions
- Role of Exchanges
- Over-the-Counter (OTC) traders
• Cryptocurrency tools
- Proficiency with commercial blockchain explorers, such as Chainalysis Reactor, TRM or Cipher Trace

- Experience with open source blockchain explorers
• Cryptocurrency laundering methods
- Mixers and bridges
- Peel chains
- High-risk exchanges
- peer-to-peer trading
- darknet markets