Cyber Security Engineer (TS/SCI + Poly)

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Chantilly, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company and our benefits.

THE PROGRAM
The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT
The Sponsor will be piloting synthetic media detection (aka deepfake detection) capabilities in its production environment. The Sponsor is looking for support of this pilot to integrate and evaluate one or more COTS (Commercial-Off-the-Shelf) SaaS (Software-as-a-service) AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning)-based solutions.

THE ROLE

• The Contractor shall support the integration of a Sponsor selected COTS solution into Sponsor’s workflows and IT systems
• The Contractor shall communicate, document, and coordinate, as necessary, the integration, evaluation, and results reporting of the COTS solution
• The Contractor shall assist with the evaluation of the solution to include developing, executing, and reporting on test use cases
• The Contractor shall provide forensic multimedia expertise
• The Contractor shall interface with existing Sponsor workflows and workforce and COTS vendor technical points of contacts
• The Contractor shall develop the requirements for full potential adoption of detection technology

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience providing system engineering support of integration, coordination, and documentation of new COTS capabilities into a customer’s environment
• Demonstrated experience providing data science support of evaluation of new AI/ML capabilities into a customer’s environment
• Demonstrated experience supporting and developing systems leveraging cloud services and cloud infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience conducing forensics of multimedia (images, videos, and audio)
• Demonstrated experience with current deepfake creation and detection methods

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated project management experience
• Demonstrated experience using MS Teams
• Demonstrated experience supporting lifecycle processes related to publicly available information collected to address a specific requirement.
• Demonstrated experience with existing Sponsor environment relating to the collection and processing of publicly available information.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you.

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution;
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.