The Cyber System Assessments Group performs software and hardware reverse engineering, vulnerability research and discovery, and system exploitation. We develop and prototype cutting-edge capabilities for our operational partners in the U.S. government. We look for, find, and demonstrate cyber vulnerabilities so that vulnerabilities in U.S. systems can be corrected, and so that vulnerabilities in other systems are better understood. Top U.S. Government leadership relies on us for our expert guidance, and our technical role with our U.S. Government sponsors is considered essential to the success of their missions.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Level 3 Associate Staff provide critical multi-domain innovative research to the Laboratory’s national security mission. They prototype solutions for state-of-the art technology and engage in many steps of a program(s) lifecycle with increasing independence and responsibility in collaboration with project leaders. As a successful Level 3 Associate Staff candidate, you will independently contribute to multi-disciplinary efforts, may lead small projects/teams, contribute to sponsor briefings, write test plans and reports, apply complex and creative solutions to solving technical problems, ultimately improving the Laboratory’s advanced technologies. You will bring technical depth to a singular several areas of expertise/specialty, build a broader more robust understanding of adjacent disciplines, program objectives and sponsor needs, and integrate it all through the lens of the Laboratory’s mission.
As a successful Level 3 Associate Staff, you will have solid technical depth, sound judgment, and the initiative to work independently on less-defined assignments. You will adapt established approaches, own discrete project/program components of technical work, contribute to program documentation and reporting, and collaborate with project/program teams across the Laboratory. Your work will include multiple activities such as hardware and software development, systems analysis, data analysis, component fabrication, system integration, testing, and documentation.
Located onsite in Fort Meade, MD
When you join our team as a Cyber System Exploitation Researcher, you'll be contributing to the development of cyber security tools and techniques. You'll be reverse engineering and exploiting software and hardware systems important to U.S. government operations and critical to the defense of our nation. Your main areas of research will include cyber tool prototyping and technical analysis of offensive or defensive cyber tools and systems, automated vulnerability discovery, reverse engineering, software protection mechanisms, static analysis, and dynamic instrumentation. Once you’re on our team, you will communicate your research to non-domain experts through your writing, public presentations, and hand-on training sessions.
Familiarity with, and expertise in some of, the following:
Associate Staff 3 Hiring Range: $114,000 - $148,000
Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including—but not limited to—the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate’s experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.
At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:
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Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required.
Requisition ID: 43596
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security. Research and development activities focus on long-term technology development as well as rapid system prototyping and demonstration. These efforts are aligned within key mission areas. The Laboratory works with industry to transition new concepts and technology for system development and deployment.
