Senior AI Malware Analysis & Reverse-Engineering Expert

Carnegie Mellon SEI; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

8% monthly retirement contribution

Tuition benefits for CMU and dependets

Transit benefit and other facilities

Professional development opportunities

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Carnegie Mellon SEI seeks a senior data scientist to apply AI/ML to code analysis and reverse engineering challenges, supporting malware detection and threat assessment. The role emphasizes developing new analysis methods, documenting results, and contributing to the security community.

You will analyze complex threats, mentor teammates, and travel to sponsor sites, conferences, or offsite meetings as required. Background security clearance may be needed.

Qualifications

• Experience with predictive modeling, data science, and AI/ML in security or threat domains.
• Strong understanding of statistical modeling and advanced data analytics.
• Ability to design novel analytical solutions for code analysis challenges.

Responsibilities

• Apply AI/ML techniques to code analysis and reverse engineering for threat assessment.
• Design and develop new analysis methods and tools to address emerging threats.
• Document results in reports, presentations, and technical exchanges.
• Identify and analyze emerging active security threats.
• Collaborate with the security community through papers and presentations.

Skills

Data science

Malware analysis

Reverse engineering

Analytical mindset

Technical writing

Mentoring

Communication

Travel willingness

Education

BS in Data Science or Computer Science

MS in Data Science or Computer Science

PhD in Data Science or Computer Science

Tools

LightGBM

XGBoost

CatBoost

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Haystack

Ghidra

IDA Pro

FastAPI

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Job description

Carnegie Mellon SEI seeks a senior data scientist to apply AI/ML to code analysis and reverse engineering challenges, supporting malware detection and threat assessment. The role emphasizes developing new analysis methods, documenting results, and contributing to the security community.

You will analyze complex threats, mentor teammates, and travel to sponsor sites, conferences, or offsite meetings as required. Background security clearance may be needed.