Principal Research Scientist - RF / Machine Learning

Key Skills

Cybersecurity, Effective communication skills, Keras software library, Machine learning techniques, PyTorch, Signal processing, TensorFlow

Job Description

Responsibilities

With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. Peraton Lab’s cybersecurity research protects mission-critical systems and national cyber infrastructure through a broad range of initiatives in computer network defense, secure-by-design techniques and cyber operations and experimentation platforms. Your expertise and areas of interest may be applied on one or more programs, providing you new opportunities to learn and grow.

The candidate will be responsible for leading the design, development, and prototyping of RF machine learning algorithms.

Qualifications

Skills and Experience:

• Requires 8 to 10 years with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD.
• Strong digital signal processing skills and RF domain knowledge
• Familiarity with common software defined radio platforms (e.g. Ettus USRPs) and software (e.g. GNU Radio) is beneficial.
• Expertise with modern machine learning development frameworks (e.g. Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch) is expected.
• US Citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance w/ Poly

Peraton Labs generates transformative applied research to fuel solutions for our customers unique challenges. We are a self-sustaining research center within Peraton that provides applied research and engineering to enable government agencies, utilities and commercial enterprises to fully exploit the future of communications, analytics and cyber security.

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Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.