Software Engineer

Peraton; Bedford (NH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a technically adept professional in New Hampshire to contribute to DoD/IC oriented software projects. The role expects rapid acquisition of new domain knowledge, strong coding skills across C/C++, Java, and scripting, and solid experience in Linux and networking.

Security clearance and citizenship support national security missions. The candidate will work within a team focused on software development, reverse engineering, and threat analysis, leveraging modern toolchains and

Qualifications

• 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD
• 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

Skills

Programming languages (C/C++, Java, Go

Linux/macOS/Windows knowledge

Networking technologies

DevOps tools (Git, SVN, CI/CD)

Citizenship and clearance (US citizen,

Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/CE/EE/Applied Math/Physics/related

Tools

GHIDRA/Hex-Rays/IDA/Angr

Cuckoo/WinDbg/Others debugging

Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform

AWS/Azure/OpenStack

Job description

• 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD


• 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


• Working knowledge of modern development practices and toolsets (Git, subversion, CI/CD toolchains)


• US citizenship


• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI

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

• Experience as a technical lead on software development projects or research teams


• Experience as a Principal Investigator on DoD/IC research projects


• Experience in business development, including technical marketing, idea generation, and authoring whitepapers and proposals for new work.


• Experience in one or more of the following areas:


• Program Analysis


• Computer networking protocol design and/or analysis


• Compute and network emulation, containerization, and virtualization


• Reverse Engineering


• Real-Time Operation Systems (RTOS)


• Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)


• Experience with one or more of the following classes of tools and frameworks:


• Binary Analysis Tools, such as GHIDRA, Hex-Rays IDA, Binary Ninja, Angr,


• Debugging and Sandboxing tools, such as Cuckoo sandbox, OllyDBG, WinDbg


• CNO toolsets, including Metasploit, Cobalt Strike


• Network emulation frameworks including CORE, EMANE, MiniNet


• Container and Orchestration solutions, including: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Terraform


• Cloud services experience (AWS, Azure, OpenStack)


• Experience with DevOps and Agile development methodologies


• Experience in the U.S. DoD/IC research community


• CNO operational experience

PeratonLabsdelivers 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.PeratonLab’s 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