Listing Description

Job Number: 845

Riverside Research is seeking a Junior Cybersecurity Engineer to support the Air Force customer on their research and development efforts. As a key member of Riverside Research, the Cybersecurity Engineer will work closely with the Government customer to integrate cybersecurity and anti-tamper solutions.

The chosen candidate will serve as a Jr. technical member of a team consisting of software engineers, data architects, cybersecurity engineers and researchers to develop and demonstrate the technical feasibility of promising Open Architecture (OA) solutions involving integrated cybersecurity and anti-tamper approaches in a representative application. The engineer will survey and monitor progress of current and emerging open architecture standards to address cybersecurity, cyber resiliency, cyber survivability, and anti-tamper and identify opportunities for applicability to current and future mission systems.

All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop cybersecurity tools for DoD Open Architecture systems and contribute to relevant OA standards


• Build tools and/or capabilities in languages like C/C++, Python, Java, etc.


• Contribute to whitepapers and/or published papers that document innovative work performed


• Influence technical direction of IR&D or on-contract research and development efforts


• Collaborate with team members on debugging programs, reviewing papers/proposals, etc.


• Participate in relevant internal and customer meetings


• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance


• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or cybersecurity field.


• 2+ years’ related experience


• Proficiency in programming languages C/C++, Python, and Assembly (x86-64, ARM)

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field


• Prior experience with DoD OAs


• Prior OA cybersecurity experience


• Self-starter and ability to manage time independently without direct supervision


• Superior written and verbal communications skills


• Experience with both defensive and offensive cyber tools