Cybersecurity Engineer (Early/Mid-Career) - Remote/Virtual Livermore, CA
Job description
Posting Duration
This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs
If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.
If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.
Salary Range
$98,300 - $190,100
- Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.
What Your Job Will Be Like
We are seeking R&D Cybersecurity Engineers to join our organization!
Are you passionate about research toward keeping systems safe and thwarting cyber intrusions? Are you dreaming of a chance to develop advanced security technologies, conduct threat assessments, and support government, military, and civilian partners in addressing advanced persistent cyber threats? If so, you will want to apply for this opportunity to join Sandia's unique multidisciplinary team committed to solving the information security challenges facing our nation. As a researcher in Sandia's Information Security Sciences group, you will engage in understanding the threats to host, mobile, and cloud platforms; and you will contribute technical ideas and implementation - keeping our nation safe from cyber attack through innovative research and development.
To support Sandia's national security missions, our cybersecurity scientists and engineers engage in a variety of research areas including:
- Cloud security
- Reverse engineering
- Malware analysis
- Risk analysis and metrics
- Threat intelligence
- Cyber data analysis and automation (Data Science, Machine Learning)
- Software and binary analysis and understanding
- Virtualization and Hypervisor security
- Communications infrastructure security (5G, Software defined networking, Wireless)
- Automated software analysis techniques (fuzzing, symbolic execution)
- Research-based experimental design and analysis
- Programmatic development across national security partners and government agencies
- Differential Privacy
Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories.
The selected applicant can be a virtual worker located in any U.S. State or District of Columbia. Regular or periodic travel to your assigned work location (Livermore, California) will be required.
Qualifications We Require
- Master's degree in a relevant STEM subject area or equivalent experience in lieu of degrees must be engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development
- Software development and algorithm design skills in C/C++, Java, Python, or Assembly
- Experience with research design and experimental rigor
- Ability to travel to Livermore, California (about 10%)
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q security clearance
Qualifications We Desire
- Master's degree(s) in Computer Science/Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Computer Forensics, or Mathematics or related field
- 1 year of additional cybersecurity experience beyond minimum requirements
- Well-developed leadership skills with ability to prioritize and execute in a well-adapted and focused manner
- Strong oral and written communication skills, ability to explain complex ideas clearly and concisely as well as how experience has shaped your abilities
- Experience conducting research resulting in creative technical solutions
- Experience with one or more of the following: network design, implementation, administration, database systems, web servers, application servers, firewalls, network devices, data science/analytics, virtualization, hypervisors, mobile and embedded systems, large scale model environments, network architectures, commercial and private cloud platforms, malware analysis, symbolic execution
- Experience auditing code in C/C++, Java, Python, Assembly, or other languages
- Strong analytical skills; creativity and innovative problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with secure-system design principles and information assurance principles
- Active DOE or DOD security clearance
About Our Team
Sandia is a world-class leader in cybersecurity. Today, cybersecurity is a daunting national security problem, and we're applying decades of expertise to the task. The Information Security Sciences group currently focuses on three major areas of research and development: malware characterization and software understanding; cyber research for emerging technologies, and secure cloud computing. With a history of applying research to solve real world homeland security problems, we develop techniques and technologies for preventing disruption and enhancing recovery in vital high-consequence cyber and critical infrastructure systems. In addition, we are actively engaged in cyber internship programs that prepare students to enter the FFRDC workforce and provide a recruiting pipeline for the Sandia cyber mission area.
About Sandia
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:
- Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
- Extraordinary co-workers
- Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
- Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
- Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*
- These benefits vary by job classification.
Security Clearance
Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.
EEO
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.
