| Title: | Cyber Defense Scientist/Mathematician |
|---|---|
| ID: | 1693 |
| Clearance: | N/A |
| Location: | N/A |
Location: College Park, Maryland
As a Cyber Defense Scientist/Mathematician you will work with various teams and pursue interests as a subject matter expert in the area of Cyber Defense. You will explore the latest cutting-edge technology concepts and work to implement and then deploy working resources in the Intelligence Community.
This could be a career defining position for the right candidate!
Education: Bachelor’s degree in either computer science (Masters or PhD desired), statistics (PhD desired), or mathematics (PhD desired). An equivalent degree (e.g., physics, data science) is acceptable, but the contractor must have statistics and machine learning experience (at least 3 years) and relevant course work.
Clearance: Active TS/SCI w/Poly
Requirements:
A minimum of 3 years (during the last 8 years) developing (or refining) and testing statistical or probabilistic modeling methods, including metrics development (e.g., scoring function), error metrics, and related quantitative and qualitative model evaluation methods
An educational background or coursework in artificial intelligence or sub discipline (e.g. machine learning) is desired.
A minimum of two years of management experience in the areas of research and development management, analysis management, or a related project management.
A minimum of one year of operational experience supporting a security operations center (SOC), Computer Emergency/incident Response team, or Intelligence Community/DoD Computer Network Defense (CND) mission.
- Time series analysis
- Machine learning
- Event otologies (cyber events preferred)
- Research program evaluation, including development of various metrics and methods
Technical expertise and professional work or graduate-level research experience is required in five or more of the following areas within the past five years (non-zero postgraduate paid professional work experience desired):
- Incident response processes (use of the Cyber "kill chain" approach or similar modeling approaches preferred)
- Automated intrusion detection capabilities and analysis techniques
- Malware analysis and malware classifications
- Cyber-attack types and exploitation techniques
- Cyber-attack modeling
- Threat intelligence reporting and analysis
- Industry (FS-ISAC and US-CERT preferred) incident reporting and sharing requirements
- Incident sharing frameworks (STIX or TAXI preferred)
- Cyber incident/event classification standards (US-CERT preferred)
Ability to proactively and independently identify potential technical and programmatic risks and advise PM accordingly
Additional experience with the Intelligence Community or other government-run analysis and evaluation is desired
Bluemont Technology and Research Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
Bluemont Technology & Research, Inc. offers a premium benefits package. Our culture is based on treating people like you would treat yourself. The company is focused on research, challenging applications of cutting edge technologies, and data intensive applications. Bluemont is a CMMI DMM (Data Management Model) appraiser.
