Posting Title

Senior Cybersecurity Full Stack Development Researcher

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Location

CO - Golden

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Position Type

Regular

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Hours Per Week

40

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Working at NLR

NLR is located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for energy systems research and development.

Join the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration. From our mission to our collaborative culture, NLR stands out in the research community for its commitment to an affordable and secure energy future. Spanning foundational science to applied systems engineering and analysis, we focus on solving complex challenges to deliver advanced, secure, reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions. Our work helps strengthen U.S. industries, support job creation, and promote national economic growth.

At NLR, you'll find a mission-driven environment supported by state-of-the-art facilities, multidisciplinary research teams, and strong collaborations with industry, academia, and other national laboratories. We offer robust professional development opportunities, and a competitive benefits package designed to support your career and well-being.

Job Description

The Cybersecurity System Analysis Group (CSAG) within NLR’s Cybersecurity Research Center performs research cybersecurity research on integrated energy systems with the goal of building resiliency and reducing risk across the energy sector. This is primarily accomplished through engaging with various partners to model and simulate energy systems to conduct research. Research areas include threat to consequence risk analysis, hardware & software security, supply chain security, and testing and evaluation.

Researchers within CSAG have the opportunity to drive NLR research in energy system security and advance a rapidly growing cybersecurity portfolio. Team members work to utilize and build capability of the best-in-class ARIES Cyber Range to deploy applicable largescale test environments, perform hardware-in-the-loop technology experiments, and collaborate with other laboratory and government partners.

CSAG is seeking an experienced senior cybersecurity research and developer professional to lead various cybersecurity research portfolios relating to NLR’s ARIES Cyber Range. The successful candidate will demonstrate a deep knowledge of full stack software development, offensive and defensive cybersecurity principals, as well as an ability to accomplish strategic and technical research objectives, directly task and coordinate on-site resources and individual contributors, collaborate with partners from across national labs, the Department of Energy, industry, and national security partners.

Key Research Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and enhance the technical capabilities of the ARIES Cyber Range in order to advance modeling and simulation capabilities, reference architectures, threat-to-consequence analysis, and testing and evaluation.
• Contributes to significant projects or research tasks, ensuring technical excellence, timely delivery, and effective coordination among team members.
• Contributes to the technical lead on large projects and programs which includes assisting with and establishing research plans and processes, performing hands-on research, tasking other technical researchers, and presenting research results.
• Contributes to the development of new methods, tools, and approaches, and provides mentorship to less experienced staff.
• Collaborates with sponsors, DOE program offices, and energy-sector stakeholders to execute funded projects.
• Support cyber business development efforts by aligning focus with the ARIES Cyber Range strategy.
• Build research collaborations with the energy industry, other DOE labs and national security partners.

This position builds and develops novel cybersecurity research and research areas as it pertains to existing and emerging energy systems. Researchers are responsible for creating innovative solutions and applying technical expertise to deliver impactful research and development to aid the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.

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Basic Qualifications

Relevant PhD and 4 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Master's Degree and 7 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Bachelor's Degree and 9 or more years of experience . Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of laws, regulations, principles, procedures and practices related to