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Project/Unit Description
The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is seeking cyber security & machine learning security engineers to join the Threat Analysis Branch (TAB) of the Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research (CIPHER) Lab.
As a Cyber Security / Machine Learning (ML) Engineer, you will conduct research & development of high-quality software systems, machine learning systems, tools, and algorithms to address real-world cyber threat analysis and intelligence problems. You will help fuse hardened AI/ML solutions and carefully designed software with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and threat intelligence research to provide support to cybersecurity researchers, cyber protection and mission teams, threat intelligence analysts, and cyber network operators.
The capabilities you help build will address challenges faced by key DoD and IC customers, including malware analysis and detection, open-source threat intelligence and attribution, threat modeling, and network analysis. These capabilities will utilize state-of-the-art machine learning, other artificial intelligence techniques, and data analysis algorithms. They will require careful User Experience considerations as they present advanced visualizations to a variety of end-users.
As a Cyber Security / ML Engineer in TAB, you will be expected to provide significant technical contributions and input to projects led by other TAB members. You will be expected to quickly transform high-level research concepts into concrete technical implementations.
Job Purpose
Scientist, engineer, or associate who performs security analysis, reverse engineering, vulnerability assessment, and/or exploitation of machine learning systems. Machine Learning Security Researchers are also expected to develop machine learning applications as needed to address cybersecurity solutions. They work with a technically savvy team of software experts to perform intelligent software analysis (including vulnerability research), reverse engineering (including malware analysis), and/or research and development on secure cyber systems. Machine Learning Security Research positions may perform these analyses at both the implementation (source and binary analysis) and behavioral level (system, network, and protocol analysis). May also with other units within the Georgia Tech community to perform interdisciplinary research in secure computing. Over course of career establishes a portfolio of secure computing research and supervises a team of researchers.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform software development, software reverse engineering, software vulnerability research, and software exploitation
- Develop and maintain kernel and user-level software and scripts
- Analyze assembly-level code on multiple platforms -Create and analyze network protocols
- Contribute to technical reports and presentations
Additional Responsibilities
You will never be siloed into working on a single project forever – you will be expected to help contribute to a variety of projects, which may range in maturity from small internally funded research ideas to long-running (10+ years!) highly mature software projects.
Our projects utilize numerous tech stacks and build tools, and selecting the appropriate tooling for a project will be part of your responsibility. Accordingly, we won’t expect you to have deep familiarity with any particular set of tools at the outset, but you will need to be able to quickly become the one of the team’s expert in at least some of the tools you use. All of our projects leverage Git, many use containers, and some example stacks we have currently include Mongo/Python/Vanilla JavaScript, Neo4J/Java/React, and Rust/Warp/Yew. All projects leverage some kind of build infrastructure such as Make, Maven, CMake, Nix, etc.
Required Minimum Qualifications
- Experience with at least two of the following: Java, Python, Rust, C languages,
- Thorough understanding of software development & design patterns and best practices
- Familiarity with software development tools and workflows, including source control (e.g., Git),
- Understanding of cybersecurity issues and/or intelligence analysis
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience developing Machine Learning algorithms, tools, and techniques
Preferred Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI Clearance
- Experience designing non-trivial software tools, systems, and frameworks
- Experience analyzing large datasets and adapting state-of-the-art algorithms/techniques
- Experience with network analysis and/or security best practices and the network stack
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Misc. Other Nice-to-Haves:
- Masters / Doctorate in Computer Science or Security or related fields
- Experience working with graph databases and graph algorithms
- Malware analysis
- Hands-on network administration in an IT-type role
- Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Travel Requirements
<10% travel
Education and Length of Experience
This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook
- 0 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering
U.S. Citizenship Requirements
Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.
Clearance Type Required
Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.
Benefits at GTRI
Comprehensive information on currently offered GTRI benefits, including Health & Welfare, Retirement Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Time Off, and Professional Development, can be found through this link: https://hr.gatech.edu/benefits
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