3 months ago
Arlington, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$173k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop tools and automated workflows to analyze large datasets for modeling and intelligence efforts.
- Create system models from circuit diagrams, schematics, source code, signal-processing algorithms, and reverse-engineered components.
- Use intelligence databases and analytic tools to support technical collection and threat modeling.
- Write custom query logic and scripts to extract, correlate, and analyze data across databases and intelligence repositories.
- Apply network analysis, COMINT, and SIGINT tradecraft to technical problems.
- Document, demonstrate, and present research findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Brief leadership on project status, technical findings, and operational impacts.
- Work with multidisciplinary teams to develop cybersecurity solutions for national-security problems.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret security clearance with active CI polygraph, or willingness to obtain a CI polygraph; U.S. citizenship is required by the government.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
- Intelligence community experience with all-source intelligence tools and databases and Intelligence Oversight policies and procedures.
- Strong programming skills in Python, C/C++, or similar languages.
- Experience with data analysis and automation, including pandas, SQL queries, and data-extraction scripting.
- Understanding of electrical engineering concepts, circuit and flow diagrams, signal-processing chains, and network traffic data.
- Proficiency with modeling tools such as SPICE or MATLAB.
- Preferred qualifications include SIGINT, COMINT, cryptologic, network analysis, communications systems, reverse engineering, firmware analysis, malware analysis, foreign-language, CTF, digital-twin, embedded-systems, signal-processing, targeting, collection-management, operational-intelligence, team-leadership, and senior-leadership briefing experience.
Benefits
- Full-time position requiring onsite work, with frequent travel from an STR office to the Maryland customer location or a majority of time at the customer site.
- The role supports a collaborative learning environment and challenging defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, and national-security research.
- STR locations include areas near Boston, Arlington, Dayton, Melbourne, and Carlsbad.
About STR
STR develops cyber, electronic warfare, sensing, and AI/ML systems and analytics for U.S. defense and intelligence customers, delivering R&D services, prototypes, and fielded capabilities. The privately held, employee-owned company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, with sites near Boston, Arlington (VA), Dayton (OH), Melbourne (FL), and Carlsbad (CA). Work spans RF, sonar, radar, command-and-control, and ISR, including subsea sensors and signal processing.