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Riverside OverviewRiverside 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

The Riverside Research Engineering and Support Solutions (ESS) directorate conducts Research and Development (R&D) of cyber-physical attacks against embedded systems. As a Microelectronics Security Data Scientist, you will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of research engineers and scientists on a wide range of microelectronics research projects. You will work directly with a team of hardware security research subject matter experts (SME), the senior Principal Investigator, Technical Lead, and Program Manager to support various project-specific research projects developing solutions to complex, open-ended hardware security problems.  The position is in Dayton, OH and requires each employe to possess and maintain a security clearance.  Remote work is not available for this position. Travel is not expected to exceed two to four times a year.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct research in the application of data science, including deep learning and complex statistical data analysis, for problems within microelectronic hardware security
• Perform all aspects of the data science lifecycle; gather requirements from non-data science technical staff, propose technical approaches, pre-process data, perform exploratory data analysis, model the data, critically evaluate performance of the model, and present findings
• Develop whitepapers and presentations to communicate research findings
• Contributes to proposals for new research in similar and/or related technology areas
• Provide technical mentorship to junior researchers supporting your programs
• Works collaboratively with customers, multi-disciplinary research partners and Riverside Research business, engineering, and technology teams on complex research and development projects

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, 3 years with a Masters degree, a PhD without experience, or equivalent work experience is typically required for an employee at this level.
• Secret clearance required to start, but must be able obtain Top Secret security clearance and all required program access approvals
• Expertise with machine learning in one or more of the following: Unsupervised Learning, Bayesian classifiers, Regression, Random Forests, Deep Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Belief Propagation, Statistical Inference, Dimensionality Reduction
• Proficient in Python and popular data science libraries (NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience across the full data science lifecycle, for classification/regression, clustering, basic text analytics, image recognition, or other related applications.
• Experience presenting technical material to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to manage timelines, product delivery, and product quality for research projects
• Willing to work in a secure US Government facility
• Interest in solving open-ended research challenges
• Willing to travel 2-4 times per year
• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., computer engineering, electrical engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, physics, or other STEM fields) and 5 years' experience, or Master's Degree in a related discipline and 3 years' experience, or a PhD in a related discipline

Desired Qualifications

• Active DoD Top Secret (TS) or equivalent US Government security clearance
• Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar Deep Learning framework
• Experience with parallel and distributed processing of large data sets across multiple GPUs
• Experience with data transformations such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
• Experience using revision control software
• Experience leading a small technical team on research projects
• Understanding of information theory and its application to cryptographic algorithms
• Understanding of signal processing is highly desired
• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., computer engineering, electrical engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, physics, or other STEM fields) and 8 years' experience, or Master's Degree in a related discipline and 3 years' experience, or 3 years' practical experience with a PhD in a related discipline

Global Comp This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors.Closing Statement  Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring.  Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees. Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran's status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.Employment Type: OTHER