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Employment Opportunities

The CERT Program currently has the following open positions. To apply for any of these positions, use the links below or visit Careers@CarnegieMellon.

Our hiring process can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months before a final decision is made.

To learn more about the CERT Program's technical areas of work, please see About Us.

Read what CERT staff have to say about working in the CERT Program.

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Job 100088

Big Data Analytics Developer
The Big Data Analytics Developer will join the CERT/CC engineering group to develop a new generation of analytics capabilities based on large scale data analytics.

Job 100078

Project Manager
The person in this position will provide oversight across major customer areas and/or critical program segments for which both the scope and effect of the work have a strategic SEI impact and government-wide impact.

Job 100074

Software Developer
The selected candidate will work closely with stakeholders to include the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DoD), critical infrastructure, and key resource private sector organizations to build effective shared cybersecurity analysis and collaboration capabilities.

Job 100066

Software Developer
The selected candidate will be responsible for conceiving and developing software in Java, Perl, and other programming languages and integrating open source and commercial packages to provide new capabilities in managing computer security issues and incidents.

Job 100056

Front-End Software Developer
As a member of DIID team, the selected candidate will be taking ideas from concept to production code, working closely with project leaders and sponsors (customers) as well as middle-tier software developers.

Job 100004

Behavioral Research Statistician
The Behavioral Research Statistician will work with a group of behavioral scientists to design experiments and analyze the resultant data.

Job 100003

Behavioral Research Statistician
The Behavioral Research Statistician will work with a group of behavioral scientists to design experiments and analyze the resultant data.

Job 10755

Systems Engineer Team Lead
This position will lead a team of systems engineering in the operation of various IT infrastructure to accomplish the missions of CERT/CC: malware collection, incident collection and analysis, large scale network data collection and analysis, along with research systems related to those functions.

Job 9971

Network Defense Analyst
The selected candidate will develop new analysis techniques and prototype their software implementation; support customers by preparing analytic reports; prototype new analysis approaches; present training on new analysis techniques; and take a lead role in preparing research for publication.

Job 9926

Malicious Code Technical Manager
The position of technical manager is responsible for all aspects of developing and executing the CERT Malicious Code (MC) body of work to include setting the technical direction; managing financials; business development; and personnel issues.

Job 9862

Computer Security Information Analyst
The location for this position will be at or near the SEI office in Arlington, Virginia. The selected candidate will work closely with cyber security analysts in the public and private sectors to effectuate cyber information and analysis capability sharing to support risk management, incident analysis, and response activities.

Job 9829

Security Solutions Engineer
This position will provide technical leadership to enterprise network security projects or ongoing security operations. This support would include system requirements development, technology evaluation, prototyping, tool development, and deployment guidance.

Job 9828

Senior Security Solutions Engineer
This position will help drive customer architecture and system engineering efforts, including system requirements development, system engineering approaches, technology evaluation, prototyping, tool development, deployment guidance, and other support to customer network security initiatives.

Job 9827

Network Security Deployment Engineer
The selected candidate will participate in software testing, packaging, and release management. Additionally, the selected candidate will participate and support the development of software tools by developing system level packaging, tests, and documentation.

Job 9811

Malware Reverse Engineer
The successful candidate will reverse engineer malicious code in support of high-impact customers, design and develop new analysis methods and tools, work to identify and address emerging and complex threats, and effectively participate in the broader security community.

Job 9809

Senior Malware Solutions Engineer
The successful candidate will transition and evangelize CERT Malicious Code (MC) methods and tools, liaise with MC customers and stakeholders to assess needs, participate in malware-related standards development, and produce and collaborate in analysis studies.

Job 9786

Information Security Engineer
The selected individual will conduct applied research and perform assessments, diagnostics, and analysis techniques to better understand, and mitigate risks to cyber environments and the organizational processes that depend on them.

Job 9754

Senior Systems Engineer
The selected individual will be part of the Enterprise Threat and Vulnerability Management team and will work on a wide variety of projects, managing small teams of engineers to develop technical solutions for SEI customers and partners. Primary duties of the position include performing in-depth research into current and near-term enterprise technologies to establish reference architectures and implementations.

Job 9749

Senior Software Security Researcher
The individual in this position will be responsible for developing analyzable secure coding rules for C, C++, Java, and other programming languages.

Job 9748

Senior Engineer
The individual in this position will work as a member of the CERT Program's Digital Intelligence and Investigation (DII) Directorate as a member of the operations group.

Job 9655

Industrial Control Systems Security Engineer
The individual in this position will work as a member of the Critical Resilience Center Team within the Networked Systems Survivability Program. The selected individual will conduct applied research and perform assessments, diagnostics, and analysis techniques to better understand, and mitigate risks to cyber environments and the organizational processes that depend on them

Job 9652

Information Security Critical Infrastructure Analyst
The individual will conduct applied research and perform assessments, diagnostics, and analysis techniques to better understand, and mitigate risks to cyber environments and the organizational processes that depend on them.

Job 9635

Secure Software and Systems Senior Researcher
The individual in this position will be responsible for planning, proposing and accomplishing research on innovative approaches to securing systems and components based on new approaches to software, hardware, or system composition.

Job 9629

Associate Systems Engineer
This position is responsible for supporting users and maintaining software and equipment in the CERT/CC Computing Laboratory.

Job 9628

Systems Engineer
This position is responsible for supporting users and maintaining software and equipment in the CERT/CC Computing Laboratory.

Job 9624

Research Manager - Science of Cyber Security
This position will manage staff who focus on developing and applying the science of cybersecurity for government sponsors with research missions in the area of cybersecurity.

Job 9618

Cyber Security Exercise Trainer and Developer
As a member of CERT's Workforce Development Program, the candidate will work with other team members in developing cyber-security and cyber-forensics training exercises and simulations.

Job 9539

Software Security Engineer
The individual in this position will be responsible for performing static and dynamic analysis on software systems developed in C, C++, Java, and other popular programming languages.

Job 9538

CSE Senior Researcher
The individual in this position will work as a team member, and be able to lead when appropriate, projects within the Cyber Security Engineering (CSE) team within the Secure Software and Systems Directorate.

Job 9406

Cyber Security Exercise Trainer and Developer
As a member of CERT's Workforce Development Program, the candidate will work with other team members in developing cybersecurity and cyber forensics training exercises and simulations, largely for US Government customers.

Job 9393

Computer Security Information Analyst
The successful candidate will work closely with cybersecurity analysts in the public and private sectors to effectuate cyber information and analysis capability sharing to support risk management, incident analysis, and response activities.

Job 9392

Computer Security Analysis Capability Developer
The successful candidate will work closely with DCISE partners and analysts; and DoD agencies to strengthen the capability of defense contractors to protect networks containing DoD information.

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