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Role and responsibility for this position:  The Senior AI Planning Research Scientist will solve hard, real-world planning problems requiring nothing less than state-of-the-art solutions. You’ll take responsibility for accomplishing specific deliverables within a small team setting of fellow engineers.  You’ll communicate and collaborate with fellow team members and help guide junior staff.    Peraton Labs generates transformative applied research to fuel solutions for our customer’s unique challenges. We are a self-sustaining research center within Peraton that provides applied research and engineering to enable government agencies, utilities, and commercial enterprises to fully exploit the future of communications, analytics, and cyber security.   Who we’re looking for:  - Cyber: We are looking for staff with a strong interest (and ideally a track record) in cybersecurity research and development. - Generalists: You should have a breadth of knowledge across multiple domains.  You’ll typically focus your work on the domain(s) of your specialty or preference, but a strong multi-domain awareness and ability is required.  You should have a curiosity to learn new technology.   - Tangible: You’ll work on applied research programs to conceive and develop prototypes to solve cutting-edge, complex problems.  

Role and responsibility for this position: As a hands-on Cybersecurity Research Scientist, you will be at the forefront of developing, testing, and fielding novel network cybersecurity appliances for the Department of Defense. Working with systems engineers and researchers, you will be responsible for researching, developing, configuring and integrating state-of-the-art cyber deception tools into enterprise-like environments, developing and managing a pipeline that integrates ML models with existing detection capabilities, and enabling transition of research prototypes to new environments. You will develop tools for facilitating management and operations of Peraton Labs’ cyber range product and for enhancing its capabilities. You will participate in the planning, setup, and conduct of cyber exercises using this cyber range, including red-teaming.   Who we’re looking for: - Cyber: We are looking for staff with a strong interest (and ideally a track record) in cyber security research and development. - Generalists: You should have a breadth of knowledge across multiple domains. You’ll typically focus your work on the domain(s) of your specialty or preference, but a strong multi-domain awareness and ability is required. You should have a curiosity to learn new technology. - Tangible: You’ll work on applied research programs to conceive and develop prototypes to solve cutting-edge, complex problems.

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, DHPC, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. To complement its outstanding technical staff, Peraton Labs is building its cleared language capabilities, permitting the customization of its technologies for real-world missions.   Role and responsibilities for this position: The Senior Chinese-Linguist Analyst will manage the full lifecycle of advanced Chinese language exploitation, starting with curation of non-alerting collection of Chinese sources all the way through to high-quality analytic production in the furtherance of customer missions. You will perform one or more of the following tasks:   - Recruit and lead teams of junior linguist-analysts, overseeing their work and mentoring them - Organize the non-alerting collection of publicly available information, either using tools or individually - Collaborate with technical staff to ingest, process, and structure collected data for exploitation - Exploit collected data to produce high-quality analytical deliverables - Present analytical findings to analyst and executive audiences   We are hiring multiple senior Chinese linguist-analysts in this role. Individual job responsibilities will be tailored to each candidate’s background and experience.   Why choose us? - Variety: You will work on multiple programs. You and your manager will have discussions to ensure your assignments are on track with your growth goals and interest areas. - Flexibility: You will have the opportunity for a flexible work schedule. Subject to program requirements, you can set your hours while fulfilling 80 hours every two weeks.  Additionally, while classified work requires onsite work, most staff can schedule about 20% of their time as work from home. - Value: You will support interesting and challenging projects that are not repetitive or monotonous, but rather have novelty and innovation; and great people to learn from and work with – collegial, smart, inspiring. Who we’re looking for:  - China Subject Matter Experts: We are looking for staff with a strong interest (and ideally a track record) in China research w/ strong linguistic and analytic skills. - Generalists:You’ll typically focus your work on the domain(s) of your specialty or preference, but a strong multi-domain awareness and ability is required.  You should have a curiosity to learn new technology.   - Tangible: Your work will not be academic, but support government customers with real missions that are critically important to the national interest. Our Work: - We span several areas of interest, including (but not limited to): - Organizational and personnel profiles - Military analysis - Technology assessments - Political analysis - Information operations - Supply chain and export control analysis

Peraton is seeking a Summer 2024 Cyber Research Intern in our Basking Ridge, NJ location in support of Peraton Labs.   Responsibilities: - Design and implement state-of-the-art Deep Learning models to detect cyber security threats. - Design and implement cyber deception technologies to deter adversaries - Conduct literature survey on state-of-the-art cyber deception technologies. - Conduct literature survey on adversarial attacks against Deep Learning architectures. - Rapidly develop Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) demonstrating research findings. - Prepare documentations and presentations summarizing research findings. - Collaborate with team members and integrate PoCs/prototypes into a unified technology. - Create a broader impact by developing implementation plans for transferring the technology to Government customers.

Role and responsibility for this position: Peraton Labs delivers world-class cybersecurity, natural language processing, and machine learning research and engineering to government agencies, telecom carriers, utilities and commercial enterprises.  Drawing on its Bell Labs heritage, Peraton Labs excels at creating innovative technologies and services to solve challenging and complex problems.    We are looking for candidates that have a dual background in software engineering and Chinese language studies with research experience for full-time positions.  Candidates will work as part of a team to research, conceive, and develop solutions by applying innovative approaches to solving problems.   The Linguist Technical Research Scientist will be expected to:   - Work under the direction of project managers and senior scientists to design, develop and test software modules related to emerging cyber, data mining, or big data analytics topics. - Design, test, and execute web scrapers to collect publicly available information (PAI) - Collaborate with teams to ingest, process, and structure collected PAI data, ensuring that any Chinese character encoded data is normalized and searchable - Explore, enrich and analyze Chinese data and/or source documents using commercial, academic, open source and custom software tools - Develop technical reports, briefings, analytical findings, and other finished project deliverables. - Participate in progress briefings and technical exchange meetings; present analytical findings to industry subject matter experts.   We are hiring multiple personnel in this role. Individual job responsibilities will be tailored to each candidate’s background and experience drawing from the overall the scope listed above. Individual job responsibilities will be tailored to each candidate’s background and experience drawing from the overall the scope listed above.

Peraton is seeking Summer 2024 Cyber Research Interns in support of Peraton Labs in Bedford, NHwho will work on applied research projects in one or more key areas related to cyber security and systems research.   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, DHPC, and Telcordia, we are a self-sustaining research center within Peraton that provides applied research and engineering to enable government agencies, utilities and commercial enterprises to fully exploit the future of communications, analytics and cyber security. Peraton Labs’ cybersecurity research protects mission-critical systems and national cyber infrastructure through a broad range of initiatives in computer network defense, cyber operations, secure-by-design techniques, and experimentation platforms.   Responsibilities: Qualified applicants must be able to perform applied research and development in one or more key areas of interest: - Full-spectrum cyber operations, offensive and defensive cyber operations. - Software reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and exploit development. - Malware analysis. - Network protocol development, analysis, and reverse engineering. - Host and network-based forensic analysis - Machine learning methods as applied to cyber security problems. - Program analysis (including vulnerability detection and/or remediation). - AI planning and reasoning as applied to cyber security problems. - Red-team experience in cyber exercises.

Peraton is seeking Summer 2024 Cyber Research Interns in support of Peraton Labs in Basking Ridge, NJwho will work on applied research projects in one or more key areas related to cyber security and systems research.   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, DHPC, and Telcordia, we are a self-sustaining research center within Peraton that provides applied research and engineering to enable government agencies, utilities and commercial enterprises to fully exploit the future of communications, analytics and cyber security. Peraton Labs’ cybersecurity research protects mission-critical systems and national cyber infrastructure through a broad range of initiatives in computer network defense, cyber operations, secure-by-design techniques, and experimentation platforms.   Responsibilities: Qualified applicants must be able to perform applied research and development in one or more key areas of interest: - Full-spectrum cyber operations, offensive and defensive cyber operations. - Software reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and exploit development. - Malware analysis. - Network protocol development, analysis, and reverse engineering. - Host and network-based forensic analysis - Machine learning methods as applied to cyber security problems. - Program analysis (including vulnerability detection and/or remediation). - AI planning and reasoning as applied to cyber security problems. - Red-team experience in cyber exercises.

Peraton is seeking Summer 2024 Cyber Research Interns in support of Peraton Labs in Silver Spring, MDwho will work on applied research projects in one or more key areas related to cyber security and systems research.   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, DHPC, and Telcordia, we are a self-sustaining research center within Peraton that provides applied research and engineering to enable government agencies, utilities and commercial enterprises to fully exploit the future of communications, analytics and cyber security. Peraton Labs’ cybersecurity research protects mission-critical systems and national cyber infrastructure through a broad range of initiatives in computer network defense, cyber operations, secure-by-design techniques, and experimentation platforms.   Responsibilities: Qualified applicants must be able to perform applied research and development in one or more key areas of interest: - Full-spectrum cyber operations, offensive and defensive cyber operations. - Software reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and exploit development. - Malware analysis. - Network protocol development, analysis, and reverse engineering. - Host and network-based forensic analysis - Machine learning methods as applied to cyber security problems. - Program analysis (including vulnerability detection and/or remediation). - AI planning and reasoning as applied to cyber security problems. - Red-team experience in cyber exercises.

Within this Peraton Labs role you will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, and prototyping of a substation automation system testbed to be used in a research environment.   The candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day management of research and development projects. This position presents a great opportunity for candidates that are looking to work on challenging, cutting-edge technology across diverse areas. - Experience in protection & control system, OT networks, control system integration, communications, IEC61850 systems, testing and commissioning of such systems - Experience in the application of NERC CIP and good utility cyber security practices to digital substations - Broad understanding of power system design, operation, maintenance and testing methods - Knowledge of protection and control schemes for electrical power systems, including relay settings, coordination, and fault analysis - Demonstrated ability to effectively manage engineering personnel as well as cross-functional teams - Ability to effectively develop staff in key technical areas supporting the digital substation design and evolution - Ability to produce clear and concise written documents and verbal presentations on technical, business and social issues - Strong background in development and management of government programs - Work closely with the Principal Investigator to track, prioritize, plan, staff, and implement a research program. - Define and document project objectives, requirements, execution plans, and key performance parameters. - Provide project direction, oversight and feedback to assigned project staff. - Acquire internal and external resources and manage project resources to deliver projects on time and according to plan. - Help the project to achieves requirements including, milestones and key performance indicators. - Track project performance and identifies project issues and adverse trends and implement timely and effective recovery plan(s) as needed. - Produce progress reports and status reports reportable to external customers.

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, DHPC, 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, cyber operations, and experimentation platforms.   Role and responsibility for this position: At Peraton Labs, we are looking for candidates with a strong background in software development and networking for full-time positions in our network system group. Candidates will work with teams to research, conceive, and develop prototypes as well as operational software. The candidates should be adept at identifying successful approaches to complex problems. Projects will involve a mix of research and development and will range from applied research to advanced prototyping to development, verification, and certification of operational software. This position will be full-time at a customer facility. The ideal candidate will be one who is able to collaborate as part of a dynamic customer, Peraton Labs, and subcontractor team as well as execute work independently.   This position is an integral member of the Peraton Labs Network Systems team supporting a customer site location with responsibilities to maintain information systems and their appropriate security posture. This individual shall have relevant working experience to perform Linux and/or Microsoft Windows system administration tasks and solid knowledge to manage the security aspects of an information system. The individual must be capable of interfacing with the customer as well as monitoring and directing subcontractor tasking.   This position requires full time on-site work in College Park, Maryland.

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, DHPC, 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, cyber operations, and experimentation platforms.   Role and responsibility for this position: At Peraton Labs, we are looking for candidates with a strong background in software development and networking for full-time positions in our network system group. Candidates will work with teams to research, conceive, and develop prototypes as well as operational software. The candidates should be adept at identifying successful approaches to complex problems. Projects will involve a mix of research and development and will range from applied research to advanced prototyping to development, verification, and certification of operational software. This position will be full-time at a customer facility. The ideal candidate will be one who is able to collaborate as part of a dynamic customer, Peraton Labs, and subcontractor team as well as execute work independently.   This position is an integral member of the Peraton Labs Network Systems team supporting a customer site location with responsibilities to maintain information systems and their appropriate security posture. This individual shall have relevant working experience to perform Linux and/or Microsoft Windows system administration tasks and solid knowledge to manage the security aspects of an information system. The individual must be capable of interfacing with the customer as well as monitoring and directing subcontractor tasking.   This position requires full time on-site work in College Park, Maryland.

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, DHPC, 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, cyber operations, and experimentation platforms.    Role and responsibility for this position:  This position is an integral member of the Peraton Labs Network Systems team supporting a customer site location with responsibilities to maintain information systems and their appropriate security posture. This individual shall have relevant working experience to perform Linux and/or Microsoft Windows system administration tasks and solid knowledge to manage the security aspects of an information system.  The individual must be capable of interfacing with the customer as well as leading a team of Peraton Labs and subcontracted staff.     This position requires full time on-site work in College Park, Maryland.    Key responsibilities include  - Maintain, assess, and enhancethe security posture of a complex and diverse development environment  - Design, develop, implement, and validate best practice security configuration on computers, servers, and network equipment  - Coordinate with system administrators to assist in the development of appropriate information security functionality  - Regularly assess and develop mitigation strategies for system security risks  - Ensure Government security procedures and policies are maintained across information systems  - Design, develop, and document internal policies and procedures for system administrators andinformation system users  - Ensure all required accreditationsand certifications are obtained and/or maintained across all information systems  - Support ISSM to perform audit tasks as needed  - Maintain a working knowledge of system functions, security policies, technical security safeguards, and operational security measures. 

Role and responsibility for this position: Peraton Labs delivers world-class cybersecurity, natural language processing, and machine learning research and engineering to government agencies, telecom carriers, utilities and commercial enterprises.  Drawing on its Bell Labs heritage, Peraton Labs excels at creating innovative technologies and services to solve challenging and complex problems.    We are looking for candidates that have a dual background in software engineering and Chinese language studies with research experience for full-time positions.  Candidates will work as part of a team to research, conceive, and develop solutions by applying innovative approaches to solving problems.   The Linguist Technical Research Scientist will be expected to:   - Work under the direction of project managers and senior scientists to design, develop and test software modules related to emerging cyber, data mining, or big data analytics topics. - Design, test, and execute web scrapers to collect publicly available information (PAI) - Collaborate with teams to ingest, process, and structure collected PAI data, ensuring that any Chinese character encoded data is normalized and searchable - Explore, enrich and analyze Chinese data and/or source documents using commercial, academic, open source and custom software tools - Develop technical reports, briefings, analytical findings, and other finished project deliverables. - Participate in progress briefings and technical exchange meetings; present analytical findings to industry subject matter experts.   We are hiring multiple personnel in this role. Individual job responsibilities will be tailored to each candidate’s background and experience drawing from the overall the scope listed above.