Software Research Engineer

Peraton Labs delivers 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. Peraton Labs 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)

Peraton Labs is seeking a talented Software Research Engineer to join our high performing team. This position is onsite (at least three days a week) and may include occasional travel to customer sites.

What Youll Do:

• Work in a dynamic environment requiring professional and effective interactions and communications
• Be a developer on the front line of the research development design and deployment of an existing application
• Responsible for designing testing coding and developing solutions to meet customer needs; ensuring software continues to function normally through software maintenance upgrade and testing; documenting the application service and environment as a reference for future operations and maintenance including version and platform upgrades
• Participate in design reviews peer code reviews and documentation for regular software releases
• Connect with other project developers to ensure efficient data flow between supporting/supported data sources utilizing API development
• Collaborate to prototype and operationalize mission tools

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 3 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 0 years with Ph.D.
• Bachelors 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
• Experience with DevOps and Agile development methodologies and toolsets (Git subversion CI/CD)
• Must be able to obtain a Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility
• US Citizenship

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

• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Data Science and Data-driven Analytics
  • Threat analysis and research
  • Computer networking protocol design and/or analysis
  • Compute and network emulation containerization and virtualization
  • Security controls and authorization

• Experience with one or more of the following classes of tools and frameworks:
  • Vector Packet Processor (VPP) platform
  • Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK)
  • ELK Stack implementation (Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana)
  • Flask API or similar API architectures; REST GraphQL gRPC etc.
  • Container and Orchestration solutions including Docker and Kubernetes
  • Automation tools including Ansible playbooks
  • Linux/Command Line Terminal familiarity with scripting (Bash/Python)
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript and related technologies
  • Network traffic generation tools including Scapy
  • Network emulation frameworks including CORE

• Cloud Data Work:
  • ETL pipeline development
  • Automation tools
  • Containerization and Orchestration
  • Databases including PostgreSQL MongoDB
  • Experience with platforms such as Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform

• Networking Skills:
  • Knowledge and skills in the fundamentals of IP and core IP technologies
  • Knowledge in basic networking and application protocols (e.g. routing VLANs VPNs switching multicast etc.)
  • Experience in IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP routing encapsulation packet analysis tools such as Wireshark tcpdump and tshark
  • Ability to read and understand a network infrastructure diagram and troubleshoot network issues
  • Experience supporting production or enterprise network environments

• Experience in the U.S. DoD/IC research community
• Experience with CNO (offensive/defensive) including red teaming network tactics and tradecraft
• Experience in business development including technical marketing idea generation and authoring whitepapers and proposals for new work
• Willingness to travel to operational sites (CONUS/OCONUS) to support operations troubleshooting test events and training work.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.