Senior Staff Research Engineer

Job Title: Senior Staff Research Engineer

Location: USA Remote

Duration: 6 months

Xoriant reasonably expects the pay rate for this position to be within the following range: $60.00/hour-$.65.00/hour.

Position Summary

Our work is varied, exciting, and meaningful. We rapidly prototype new capabilities to address specific customer needs. We improve our Internet intelligence through other, unique forms

of data collection. We develop, maintain, and use our own tools to perform threat hunting. We stand up infrastructure and conduct our own vulnerability research of customer networks. We are consistently shown the impact of our work and are proud to be a part of our nation s cyber defense.

Your Impact

• Protect our customers against malicious actors on the Internet
• Develop novel techniques and approaches for understanding the internet and characterizing data for insights relevant to cyber threat intelligence
• Collaborate with US government partners in investigating and reporting malicious cyber activity for analysts and senior leaders
• Aid in developing software to better leverage datasets in the various missions of threat hunting, vulnerability discovery, and as-yet undetermined missions
• Grow our library of datasets and integrate new capabilities into our tools
• Build prototypes that generate insights for customers and help to operationalize them towards cyber threat hunting
• Discover the emergent properties of the Internet so we start to expect the unexpected
• Mentor junior staff, share best practices and technical expertise with a multidisciplinary team

Your Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience)
• GCTI, GPEN, OSCP, CEH certifications a plus
• Intermediate proficiency in manipulating large datasets and a high level of comfort with SQL and database operations (approximately 2-3 years of professional experience)
• Intermediate proficiency in Python, Go, and/or Rust (approximately 2-3 years of professional experience)
• High-level understanding of computer networks, protocols, and of how the Internet works
• Experience collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from multiple sources, documenting the results, and providing meaningful analytic products
• Knowledge of the principal methods, procedures, and techniques of gathering information and producing, reporting, and sharing intelligence
• Broad knowledge of nation-state linked APT groups with emphasis on differences in Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
• Knowledge of the Intelligence Community, US Government, and federal cyber centers
• Experience using tools such as nmap, nessus, dsniff, netcat, network sniffers, and fuzzers. At least 2 years experience in 1 tool minimum.
• Ability to concisely communicate complex subject matter to technical and non-technical audiences
• At minimum, you must be eligible for a security clearance, active Top Secret preferred

Our Team:

Xpanse s global collections architecture yields the best and most detailed global view into the device layer of the public Internet data set ever created. The Xpanse National Security Division leverages datasets ranging in size from gigabytes to petabytes in unconventional ways to produce unparalleled cybersecurity insights. NSD also conducts its own unique collection and analysis in support of special projects. Compensation

Regards,

Akangsha