Mid-Level Cybersecurity Scientist
Location
US-OH-Beavercreek
ID
2026-4361
Category
Research & Development
Position Type
Full Time Salary
Riverside Overview
Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country's most challenging technical problems.All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship.
Position Overview
The computer systems we interact with on a daily basis are inherently flawed. By nature, many systems contain bugs and vulnerabilities. What if we could architect systems that think differently? The Secure and Resilient Systems group at Riverside Research aims to do just that. By leveraging secure input handling, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and open architectures, we aim to ensure systems are secure by design, eliminating entire classes of vulnerabilities. We take technologies from the academic space and transition them to the field, enhancing national security through applied security engineering.
Riverside Research is seeking a dynamic and growth-focused mid-level research scientist to support research and development of bleeding-edge security engineering technologies. As a key member of our Secure and Resilient Systems team, the research scientist will interface with government research organizations (e.g. DARPA, IARPA, service labs, etc.), perform business development, lead existing R&D contracts, and develop bleeding-edge technologies for transition to the warfighter. The research scientist will interface with team members across Riverside Research locations.
The research scientist will contribute to a diverse team responsible for developing security technologies in a variety of DoD systems. They will lead teams working towards and developing secure parsers, MBSE artifacts and tools, and other technologies in the interest of DoD partners. They will develop software and systems that use new and existing technologies in areas that these technologies may have never been applied to. The research scientist will perform business development in their research area and work to grow their field through pursuit of new government contracts. They will also contribute to technical writing in their research area.
The mid-level research scientist should have extensive experience in C/C++ and Python, as well as a mastery of the common security pitfalls of legacy systems. They should be able to think creatively to express why vulnerabilities such as Heartbleed can be classified as parser vulnerabilities. The research scientist should have extensive knowledge working with one or more of the following: system integration, network protocols, MBSE tools, secure input handling, and open architectures.
Responsibilities
- Help the group design innovate security solutions including
- Innovative parsers
- Novel data protocol protections
- Secure-by-design system architectures
- Lead contracts as a principal investigator, transitioning existing tools and creating new tools for DoD use cases
- Build new tools and/or capabilities in languages like C/C++, Python, and Rust
- Potential to perform business development in research focus area
- Contribute to and lead proposal development for new and shaped work
- Develop whitepapers and publish papers that document innovative work performed
- Lead team members in debugging programs, designing systems, reviewing papers, etc.
- Participate and lead relevant internal and customer meetings
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Cybersecurity and 5 years of relevant experience, 3 years and a Masters, or a