Cybersecurity Researcher

Vannevar Labs; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is on a mission to enhance national security through advanced technology solutions. They are seeking a motivated individual to lead intelligence collection from dark web sources, contributing to critical cybersecurity efforts. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools and collaborate with engineers in a fully remote setting. The company values public service and aims to improve governmental technology, making this position not only impactful but also rewarding. Join a team dedicated to making a difference and enjoy competitive benefits that support your well-being and work-life balance.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance

100% remote first culture

Unlimited PTO

Lifestyle stipends

Salary top-up during military reserve duty

Fully paid parental leave

Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Qualifications

• Experience in conducting OSINT investigations and working with dark web data.
• Strong ethics in handling sensitive data and adherence to privacy standards.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, discover, and collect data from various sources.
• Conduct technical security research and assist with process automation workflows.

Skills

OSINT investigations

dark web data analysis

cybersecurity fundamentals

communication skills

project ownership

digital identity tracking

Education

U.S. Citizenship

Tools

cloud environments

high-level programming languages

Job description

Remote; Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Vannevar Labs supports people on the front lines by building tools that deter and de-escalate conflict with America's adversaries. We build software and hardware for this mission that enable our customers to maintain maritime vigilance, disrupt misinformation, and collect non-traditional intelligence. In strategic competition, the intelligence and actions that shape conflict occur well before war itself. We build tools to win this fight now.

This mission has become urgent. The US and our allies are fighting a war of deterrence with woefully outdated technology. As a team, we believe in public service and that our democracy and government improve only if we put serious, collective effort into improving them, including the technology our government uses.

Since our founding in 2019, we have grown to support a wide range of missions and capabilities across all U.S. service branches, multiple combatant commands, partner nations, and the intelligence community. We have been profitable since 2021, and are backed by investors including General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Point72, Costanoa, and Felicis.

About The Role

Vannevar Labs is expanding from one product (Decrypt) to an ecosystem of products. One of these products supports information operations and electronic warfare. In the short-term, you will lead intelligence collection of the dark web sources relevant to our customer's missions. You will interface with third-party data vendors to complement first-party collection and own the data collection and ingest process. In the long term, you'll help drive the technical vision for cybersecurity as we expand our company's footprint into cyber domain operations.

What You'll Do

• Aid in the monitoring, discovery and collection of data from various sources
• Conduct technical security research on topics such as OSINT techniques and browser fingerprinting
• Aid in the development of methodologies for managing attribution such as the development and maintenance of personas in non-standard environments
• Assist with research into process automation workflows
• Collaborate side-by-side with our engineers, leveraging your communication skills
• Assist with bespoke research as necessary
• Assist with the development and documentation of new processes to support the team
• Assist with the reverse-engineering and analysis of new data sources

What we look for

• Experience conducting OSINT investigations of varying degrees of complexity
• Experience working with dark web data
• Experience working in different languages such as Mandarin
• Meticulous and paranoid about digital identity tracking
• Knowledge of fundamentals of cybersecurity and operational security
• Strong ethics for handling of sensitive data and adherence to data privacy rules and compliance standards
• Excellent communication, teamwork skills, and project ownership
• U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems

Nice to haves

• Experience supporting cyber investigations in various functions
• Experience working in a cloud environment
• Understanding of OS fundamentals
• Experience with a broad variety of technologies and platforms
• Experience with a high-level programming language such as Python, Node.js, Java, Ruby or similar

What we offer

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

Vannevar Labs is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!

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