Job Responsibilities
Conduct full-spectrum cyber operations across adversary emulation, defensive and offensive cyber, cyber intelligence, adversary engagement, and digital investigations.
Simulate real-world threat actors and attack techniques to identify vulnerabilities, assess defenses, and improve organizational cyber resilience.
Analyze cyber threat intelligence, complex datasets, and malware to identify adversary behaviors, emerging threats, and actionable insights.
Develop, evaluate, and enhance innovative cyber capabilities, including defensive solutions, non-kinetic effects, and deception environments designed to disrupt and impose costs on adversaries.
Support digital forensics and cyber investigations by collecting and analyzing technical evidence to characterize incidents and inform mission decisions.
Basic Qualifications
Sustained excellence in academic performance
Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
Demonstrated interest in serving the public
- This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
- None
- This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
- None
Salary compensation range and midpoint
$46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500 Annual
Work Location Type
Onsite
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