What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Investigator – Systems Software Security - Security Clearance Required position at Riverside Research?
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 Secure and Resilient Systems group seeks a principal investigator (PI) to execute research programs in the area of low-level systems software security.
PIs in the Secure and Resilient Systems group manage research programs from ideation and problem definition (e.g., in a proposal) to prototyping and evaluation (e.g., with customer funding) and towards transition (e.g., mapping to a real platform). Our PIs take complex interdisciplinary problems, design new methods and approaches, and lead a technical team to execute the work. In doing so, they interface with customers to understand requirements and report results, mentor and guide individual contributors working on subproblems, and interface with business leaders and program managers to get the resources they need.
The problems tackled in this position may involve systems software (e.g., real time operating systems (RTOS), secure hypervisors), computer architecture (e.g., tagged architectures), peripheral hardware (e.g., custom device drivers, FPGA hardware, bus protocols), and / or program analysis (e.g., fuzzer implementation, compiler design). Awareness of peripheral domains such as cryptography, formal methods and reverse engineering will enable better collaboration across the Secure and Resilient Systems group.
Successful candidates for this role will have the deep technical and people skills necessary to both decompose big problems and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and contributors. If you can see a forest made of weeds, if you know how to eat an elephant (hint : one bite at a time), or if you can explain virtual memory to your grandmother… you may have the right skills to be a PI in Riverside Research’s Secure and Resilient Systems group.
Keywords : Operating systems, RTOS, hypervisors, fuzzing, static analysis, dynamic analysis, FPGA, device drivers, architecture, instruction set architecture
Responsibilities
Job Responsibilities :
- Help design and implement innovative solutions to customer problems related to systemssoftware
- Prototype and evaluate features within large system software projects like Linux, Xen, LLVM, or APL
- Build new tools features, and / or capabilities in languages like C / C , Python, Rust, Assembly, etc.
- Writewhitepapers and / or published papers that document innovative work performed.
- Document and communicate design decisions, technical challenges, and progress to technical and non-technical internal and externalstakeholders
- Collaborate with team members on debugging programs, pair programming, reviewing papers / proposals, etc.
- Participate in relevant internal and customermeetings
- Influence technical direction of internal and / or on-contract research and developmentefforts
Qualifications
Required Qualifications :
Desired Qualifications :
Global Comp
140,000 - $180,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors.
Closing Statement
Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees. Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran’s status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.
Salary : $140,000 - $180,000
