Systems Security Researcher

Job description

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: Riverside Research’s Secure and Resilient Systems group seeks a computer scientist with a focus on systems security research. The researcher will contribute to applied research projects from cradle to grave including: ideation (e.g., system architecture, technical proposal writing), planning (e.g., designing new methods and approaches), execution (e.g., prototyping, experimentation) and transition (e.g., publishing and/or briefing results). Research 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), compiler extensions (e.g., LLVM passes, custom backends) and/or program analysis (e.g., fuzzer implement...