Cyber Tech SETA-DARPA, Top Secret Clearance

Company: Blue Sky Innovators
Location: Arlington
Posted on: February 17, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description Candidate sought to provide on-site support. Successful candidate will lead activities in project management, technical and programmatic risk analysis, and program-funded test coordination. The candidate will also be responsible for coordinating meetings, assessing performer technical progress, projecting performer outcomes, ensuring that project management best practices are followed by performers, and supporting DARPA-funded independent verification and validation (IV&V) testing with performers and partners. The ideal candidate possesses technical expertise and experience with red teaming, vulnerability research, and/or reverse engineering of network edge devices, commercial cybersecurity apparatuses, and other enterprise network boundary devices. Exemplary candidates have demonstrated an ability to learn new subjects and gain rapid insights into current and next-generation cyber research and prototyping, preferably with hands-on leadership of research programs at the performer level. Description Requirements: · Experience with Red Teaming, Vulnerability Research, or Reverse Engineering · Experience formally documenting requirements and providing supporting evidence · Bachelor's Degree in engineering (i.e. electrical, computer, or network), computer science, or related field · Ability to work with little oversight to take abstract problems, provide detailed analysis, and generate recommendations, both individually and as part of a team managing a DARPA research and development program Desired Capabilities and Characteristics: · At least 5 years of experience · Master's or PhD Degree in engineering, computer science, or related field · Experience with enterprise or tactical network engineering and operations · Experience developing computer systems and ability to comprehend designs expressed in hardware description languages and/or programming languages · Experience with COMSEC devices and key management, classified network accreditation, and/or DOD cyber security activities · Education and/or experience using Formal Methods, such as using automated reasoning tools to verify software or generating trustworthy implementations automatically from specifications · Excellent technical writing skills, including the ability to proofread and perform quality control on technical documents and briefing slides · Excellent communication skills - both written (to include PowerPoint) and oral – and demonstrated ability to concisely summarize and efficiently communicate essential elements of a concept quantitatively and comprehensively · Proficient in office software use, including Microsoft Office Suite Clearance : DoD Top Secret Clearance. Blue Sky Innovators, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are a qualified job seeker with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access http://www.blueskyinnovators.com as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, please email us at careers@blueskyinnovators.com and provide your name and contact information. Please note: this is only for job seekers with disabilities requesting an accommodation.

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