Lead Cyber Engineer for Navy Cyber-Physical R&D

Integer Technologies; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance covered for employee

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Integer Technologies seeks a Lead Cyber Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across cyber-physical R&D supporting Navy-relevant cyber-physical systems. The role builds on a Senior Cyber Engineer with elevated engineering leadership, planning, stakeholder engagement, and business development.

The Lead Engineer interfaces with Navy sponsors and LSU partners, guiding modeling, experimentation, and AI/ML research while contributing to proposals and sponsor engagement.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience, or Master’s degree and 6 years of experience in cybersecurity, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related discipline.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience in cyber-physical systems research, including modeling, simulation, vulnerability analysis, or dynamic defense concept development.
• Strong background in embedded systems cybersecurity, including memory forensics, fuzzing, and binary analysis.
• Experience with AI/ML-enabled anomaly detection or modeling approaches for embedded systems.
• Experience designing, executing, or leading laboratory and simulation-based experiments for cyber-physical resilience assessment.
• Excellent communication skills for sponsor interaction, proposal development, and cross-institution collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across cyber-physical R&D, helping structure tasking, refine approaches, and guide engineers performing modeling, analysis, dynamic defense development, and feasibility studies.
• Lead research into dynamic cyber defense methods, including vulnerability taxonomies, defensive strategies, mission-impact metrics, and lifecycle-aware resilience approaches.
• Drive AI/ML-based anomaly detection research for embedded systems and support integration of advanced analytics into modeling and test environments.
• Develop and oversee bench-scale experiments and digital modeling environments, ensuring experimental rigor and clear validation of cyber-physical resilience concepts.
• Serve as a primary technical interface with LSU and other university partners, coordinating joint research activities, experiment planning, and shared modeling or AI/ML development tasks.
• Collaborate with Navy sponsors, program managers, and research teams to refine technical plans, present findings, and support assessment cycles.
• Contribute to business development and capture, including shaping new research directions, authoring technical proposal content, and maintaining relationships with government and academic stakeholders.
• Produce high-quality documentation, including research papers, experiment reports, sponsor deliverables, and clear presentations of complex technical findings.

Skills

Technical leadership

Embedded systems cybersecurity

AI/ML anomaly detection

Sponsor interaction / proposals

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 8 years of experience in relevant fields

Master’s degree + 6 years of experience in relevant fields

Job description

Integer Technologies seeks a Lead Cyber Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across cyber-physical R&D supporting Navy-relevant cyber-physical systems. The role builds on a Senior Cyber Engineer with elevated engineering leadership, planning, stakeholder engagement, and business development.

The Lead Engineer interfaces with Navy sponsors and LSU partners, guiding modeling, experimentation, and AI/ML research while contributing to proposals and sponsor engagement.