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Peraton is seeking Summer 2023 Network Research Interns in support of our Peraton Labs - Analytics / Machine Learning teams.   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.   Role and responsibility for this position: We are seeking Interns for Summer 2023 who will work with project management and team members to design, implement, test, and integrate novel solutions to problems in the areas of automated network discovery or network monitoring/security.

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 Lab’s 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 looking for an experienced software engineer with strong programming skills to help research, build, and enhance systems implementing distributed operations. The successful candidate will have a track record of working effectively in teams, proactively identifying issues, and independently solving problems. The candidate will have demonstrably good communication skills that facilitate collaboration on large systems development efforts. Projects within the lab will typically involve technologies such as microservices, container-based orchestration, machine learning, natural language processing, cyber security, virtualization, HTTPS/TCP/IP networking and operating system internals, thus experience with some or all of these would be a significant plus. Projects will involve a mix of research and development, and will range from applied research to advanced prototyping and demonstrations. The ideal candidate will be one who enjoys learning new skills and is able to work independently.

Peraton Labs is looking for a self-motivated Senior Research Scientist with a passion for developing technology innovation in the area of advanced mobile computing platforms in safe and secure networked systems. The candidate will work with other research engineers and collaborate with university faculty members and students to design algorithms and implement prototype systems to demonstrate new research concepts and enable technology transition to practice.

Peraton Labs is seeking a highly motivated individual to support and enhance development of classified and unclassified network research prototypes for a government research customer. Candidates will work in a dynamically changing environment and expected to be able to acquire and adapt new technologies to create state-of-the-art prototypes. We are seeking an individual with a combination of skills and flexibility to help make a difference in mission-oriented research prototypes. Not all of the skills listed below are required, but the candidate should be motivated, willing, and excited about learning and adopting new technologies. Self-starters who have the drive to acquire expertise on their own and who thrive in a dynamic environment will excel in this position. Network expertise is part of the heritage of Peraton Labs, with its lineage stretching back to Bell Labs, Bellcore and Telcordia. We are seeking motivated individuals to join the team who want to move forward with the next generation of network research.   Roles and Responsibilities: - Research and develop network-based prototypes including the creation of software, scripts and documentation to demonstrate capabilities in new network technology areas (e.g., high speed networking, wireless networks). - Research and develop state-of-the-art large-scale prototypes involving virtualized environments, including but not limited to cloud infrastructure, containers, and network function virtualization (NFV). - Provide technical leadership working with government PMs to help shape and guide their research program, explain technical details to customer stakeholders, and work alongside other contractors to create prototypes. - Work in a fast-paced dynamic environment acquiring expertise as needed and demonstrating capabilities in software development, networking, data collection/monitoring, reverse engineering, etc.

Role and responsibility for this position:   The ML/Data Science Research Engineer will participate in an end-to-end design and implementation of deep learning solutions for application in network/graph representation learning (NRL) and graph construction/generation/completion.     The ideal candidate will be able to start from the end users' needs and understand how they drive performance and infrastructure requirements. The ideal candidate has experience converting customers' needs into user interface requirements and baselining and scaling ML solutions using CI/CD best practices.     Roles and Responsibilities:  - Frame the problem, research current state-of-the-art ML solutions, and assess their suitability to the problem at hand.   - Leverage deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow) to develop deep learning solutions, tailoring them to the application area.   - Develop extract-transform-load (ETL) pipelines to curate large-scale ML datasets.   - Leverage graph neural networks (GNN) to construct embedded/latent representations for downstream tasks.  - Train ML models using automated hyper-parameter tuning frameworks. - Design data model to capture real-world phenomena using graph data structures in a space/computationally efficient

Role and responsibility for this position:   The ML/Data Science Research Engineer will participate in an end-to-end design and implementation of deep learning solutions for application in network/graph representation learning (NRL) and graph construction/generation/completion.    The ideal candidate will be able to start from the end users' needs and understand how they drive performance and infrastructure requirements. The ideal candidate has experience converting customers' needs into user interface requirements and baselining and scaling ML solutions using CI/CD best practices.     Roles and Responsibilities:  - Frame the problem, research current state-of-the-art ML solutions, and assess their suitability to the problem at hand.   - Leverage deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow) to develop deep learning solutions, tailoring them to the application area.   - Develop extract-transform-load (ETL) pipelines to curate large-scale ML datasets.   - Leverage graph neural networks (GNN) to construct embedded/latent representations for downstream tasks.  - Train ML models using automated hyper-parameter tuning frameworks.  - Design data model to capture real-world phenomena using graph data structures in a space/computationally efficient design. 

Peraton Labs is seeking a QA Team Member to work as part of a team developing a state-of-the-art network monitoring tool. In keeping with Peraton Labs’ role as a research organization, the QA Team needs to deal with changing requirements and priorities. Working closely with other team members, in a fast-paced environment, you will be challenged to utilize and grow your skills. To be considered, candidates must be creative, passionate  about process improvement, be self-sufficient, passionate for learning new things and have a strong technical ability in the following areas: - Interacting with product owners and stakeholders to understand product requirements - Preparing test scenarios - Conducting tests, analyzing results, and preparing reports on all testing aspects - Excellent communication and problem-solving skills - Excellent verbal and written communications skills - Ability to work within a team effectively 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.

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 China Tech 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 abovele. Individual job responsibilities will be tailored to each candidate’s background and experience drawing from the overall the scope listed above.

Peraton Labs delivers world-class cybersecurity, machine learning, and networking 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 with a strong Computer Science background and experience in research and development in cybersecurity for full-time positions.  Candidates will work as part of a team to research, conceive and develop solutions by applying innovative approaches to solving customer problems.   You will be part of a dynamic team focused on research and development on solving cutting-edge problems in cybersecurity applied to wired as well as wireless networks. Given the increasing complexity of the cyber environment, new solutions are needed to reduce the burden on human cyber defenders, and to increase the level of automation in cyber defense. Innovative solutions are required to increase the level of automation in detecting cyber threats and in responding to these threats, leveraging AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) technologies. You will work with other team members to design, implement and test solutions to these problems. The work entails using problem-solving skills to design and prototype innovative solutions to prove out technical concepts that address customer cybersecurity requirements. You will also participate in preparing presentations and demonstrations for technical information exchanges with the end customer, writing and presenting research papers, and writing proposals.  

Peraton Labs is looking for an experienced software engineer with strong programming skills to help research, build, and enhance systems implementing distributed operations. The successful candidate will have a track record of working effectively in teams, proactively identifying issues, and independently solving problems. The candidate will have demonstrably good communication skills that facilitate collaboration on large systems development efforts. Projects within the lab will typically involve technologies such as microservices, container-based orchestration, machine learning, natural language processing, cyber security, virtualization, HTTPS/TCP/IP networking and operating system internals, thus experience with some or all of these would be a significant plus. Projects will involve a mix of research and development, and will range from applied research to advanced prototyping and demonstrations. The ideal candidate will be one who enjoys learning new skills and is able to work independently.

Peraton Labs is looking for an experienced software engineer with strong programming skills to help research, build, and enhance systems implementing distributed operations. The successful candidate will have a track record of working effectively in teams, proactively identifying issues, and independently solving problems. The candidate will have demonstrably good communication skills that facilitate collaboration on large systems development efforts. Projects within the lab will typically involve technologies such as microservices, container-based orchestration, machine learning, natural language processing, cyber security, virtualization, HTTPS/TCP/IP networking and operating system internals, thus experience with some or all of these would be a significant plus. Projects will involve a mix of research and development, and will range from applied research to advanced prototyping and demonstrations. The ideal candidate will be one who enjoys learning new skills and is able to work independently.

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 Lab’s 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 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 Lab’s 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 looking for an experienced C++ developer with strong programming skills to develop signal processing algorithms and waveforms for communications, networking, and electronic warfare systems. The role will range from algorithm concept development and modeling through software implementation and test. The successful candidate will have a track record of effectively working in teams, proactively identifying issues, independently solving problems, and creating novel solutions. The candidate must have strong communication skills that enable collaboration on large development projects.

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 Lab’s 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 looking for a self-motivated Research Scientist with a passion for developing technology innovation in the area of advanced mobile computing platforms in safe and secure networked systems. The candidate will work with other research engineers and collaborate with university faculty members and students to design algorithms and implement prototype systems to demonstrate new research concepts and enable technology transition to practice.

Peraton Labs is looking for a self-motivated Networking Research Scientist with a passion for developing solutions for wireless networking problems. You will join a team of 3-5 developers to implement and test solutions in the areas of networking and machine learning for mixed wireless and wired networks, with the goal of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous development), integration and testing, and with time you will take on lead roles and interface with customers. Your work will involve design and prototyping of software to prove out technical concepts; you should therefore have excellent software development skills and be willing to learn new skills and technologies as needed to develop cutting-edge solutions based on customer needs.   We have several active research and development projects where we design, integrate, and demonstrate solutions for a range of applications, including network discovery, monitoring, control, rapid reconfiguration, and autonomous operations. Our work touches all layers of the communication stack (PHY, link, MAC, routing, transport, and application) and integrates multiple concepts such as coordination protocols, security, robustness, and performance. We are looking to add expertise to our team to achieve success in all of these areas. The ideal candidate is one who is excited at the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research in an environment where they will continuously learn new concepts and innovate in collaboration with a strong team of individuals with diverse technical backgrounds.

Peraton Labs is looking for a self-motivated Networking Research Scientist with a passion for developing solutions for wireless networking problems. You will join a team of 3-5 developers to implement and test solutions in the areas of networking and machine learning for mixed wireless and wired networks, with the goal of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous development), integration and testing, and with time you will take on lead roles and interface with customers. Your work will involve design and prototyping of software to prove out technical concepts; you should therefore have excellent software development skills and be willing to learn new skills and technologies as needed to develop cutting-edge solutions based on customer needs.   We have several active research and development projects where we design, integrate, and demonstrate solutions for a range of applications, including network discovery, monitoring, control, rapid reconfiguration, and autonomous operations. Our work touches all layers of the communication stack (PHY, link, MAC, routing, transport, and application) and integrates multiple concepts such as coordination protocols, security, robustness, and performance. We are looking to add expertise to our team to achieve success in all of these areas. The ideal candidate is one who is excited at the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research in an environment where they will continuously learn new concepts and innovate in collaboration with a strong team of individuals with diverse technical backgrounds.

With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. Peraton Lab’s 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. Your expertise and areas of interest may be applied on one or more programs, providing you new opportunities to learn and grow.   The candidate will be responsible for leading the design, development, and prototyping of RF machine learning algorithms.

With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. Our research and engineering protects mission-critical systems and a broad range of initiatives in computer network defense, electronic warfare, secure-by-design techniques, and cyber operations and experimentation platforms. Your expertise and areas of interest may be applied on one or more programs, providing you new opportunities to learn and grow. In this position you will work with a small engineering team to develop target recognition algorithms for military applications.  In this role you will utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to develop target recognition algorithms on both synthetic and real image data.   Responsibilities: - Develop target recognition algorithms utilizing image processing techniques - Develop advanced algorithms that exploit a variety of target signature phenomenology and processing techniques to find threats of interest and discard clutter - Algorithms shall be extended to include additional, higher-fidelity target information such as velocity, orientation/aspect angle - Train algorithms on both real world data and synthetic data generated from UnReal Engine or other 3D graphic toolsets. - Implement algorithms onto real time processing hardware - Perform ground truthing of captured data and replicate data through 3D graphics tool suites. - Develop and manage large databases of labeled/annotated imagery of military relevant scenarios, to include real and synthetic data, which are suitable for training and testing of algorithms.