Jobs at Riverside Research

Lead materials characterization and modeling R&D programs, managing technically diverse teams, customer relationships, budgets, schedules, contracts, subcontractors, procurement, and program execution. Develop long-term strategies, resolve program issues, communicate status to government and internal stakeholders, and identify and capture new contract and growth opportunities across Department of War and Intelligence Community customers.

Leads development, validation, and sustainment of EO/IR spectral signature and radiometric models for defense and intelligence customers. Translates materials data into physics-based models, integrates environmental corrections, improves space-weathering models, validates results using laboratory and remote-sensing data, and ensures model database interoperability. Provides scientific leadership, mentors modeling teams, and communicates technical findings to government and internal stakeholders.

Analyze emerging technologies for MASINT missions, evaluate sensor and capability developments, and advise on architecture integration. Provide recommendations for signal processing, AI/ML, and data fusion; develop CONOPS, white papers, technical documentation, and transition plans. Coordinate requirements across government, industry, research, and intelligence community stakeholders while assessing sensor and PED tool performance.

Analyze and exploit infrared and OPIR sensor data, including SBIRS systems; develop sensor models and advanced processing algorithms in Python and MATLAB; investigate infrared phenomenology; design tests and experiments; troubleshoot data workflows and software logic; and support CONOPS, technical documentation, and technology transition efforts with government, industry, and research partners.

Supports NASIC by defining product vision, gathering and prioritizing stakeholder requirements, guiding software development teams, and coordinating architecture solutions across multiple teams. Applies Agile, systems engineering, cloud architecture, and technical project management practices to deliver intelligence-focused software and hardware solutions. The role also provides technical leadership, supports acquisition and R&D processes, and collaborates with DoD and Intelligence Community stakeholders.

Manages intelligence contracts and task orders supporting NASIC, including requirements definition, statements of work, acquisition tracking, contract administration, budgeting, resource monitoring, and intelligence-cycle activities. Coordinates government and mission partners, facilitates working groups, tracks deliverables, develops analyses and briefings, evaluates production processes, and presents recommendations. Requires an active TS/SCI clearance, five years of intelligence experience, and occasional travel.

Manages intelligence programs and contracts supporting NASIC, including requirements development, statements of work, acquisition tracking, contract administration, budgeting, resource monitoring, and deliverable oversight. Coordinates intelligence-community partners, meetings, and working groups; prepares analyses, briefings, white papers, and recommendations. Requires active TS/SCI clearance, intelligence-cycle experience, resource-management skills, strong communication, office software proficiency, and occasional travel.

Processes and analyzes satellite, airborne, and remotely sensed imagery for national security and geospatial intelligence missions. Develops Python-based geospatial tools, automated workflows, and image-processing pipelines supporting classification, object detection, change detection, and spatial analysis. Performs sensor calibration and quality assurance, collaborates with technical and intelligence teams, evaluates emerging technologies, and prepares technical documentation and presentations.

Develop and integrate machine learning and AI algorithms for defense applications. Responsibilities include model design, data preparation, software development, experimentation, performance optimization, testing, documentation, and technical reporting. The engineer collaborates with data scientists, software engineers, and defense analysts to deliver scalable, reliable mission-critical solutions. The role requires substantial machine learning software engineering experience, security clearance, and expertise in programming, cloud deployment, machine learning frameworks, and statistical analysis.

Lead cybersecurity research and development efforts spanning offensive cyber, systems security engineering, formal methods, and security software. Develop and prototype new security technologies, manage technical execution, mentor contributors, support customer relationships and business development, and contribute to research programs and technical marketing. The role requires strong computing expertise, research experience, leadership in capture activities, and eligibility for a Top Secret clearance.

Leads cybersecurity research and development, prototypes security technologies, manages technical execution, supports business development and customer relationships, mentors researchers, and shares results with industry. Focus areas include offensive cyber, systems security engineering, formal methods, and security software. The role requires strong computing expertise, research experience, leadership in capture activities, and the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

Conduct research and development in formal methods and software security. Responsibilities include designing solutions, prototyping and evaluating features in large projects such as LLVM or CompCert, building tools across programming languages, contributing to technical papers, documenting design decisions, and collaborating on debugging, pair programming, and proposal reviews.

Manages the full lifecycle of federal subcontracts and procurement activities for R&D, prototype hardware, engineering services, software, and specialized materials. Responsibilities include issuing RFPs/RFQs, evaluating proposals, conducting cost and price analyses, negotiating agreements, managing suppliers, ensuring FAR/DFARS/ITAR/EAR and CPSR compliance, maintaining audit-ready records, and supporting proposal pricing and subcontracting plans.

Manage intelligence-related contracts, task orders, requirements, statements of work, acquisitions, deliverables, budgets, and expenditures supporting NSIC. Coordinate government and mission partners, working groups, and project tracking. Prepare briefings, white papers, analyses, and recommendations while supporting intelligence-cycle activities, planning, programming, and resource execution. The role requires an active TS/SCI clearance, at least five years of intelligence experience, strong communication, office software proficiency, and occasional travel.

Analyze emerging technologies for MASINT missions; evaluate sensor and capability developments; advise on architectures, signal processing, AI/ML, and data fusion; develop CONOPS, white papers, technical documentation, and transition plans; identify future capability requirements; and collaborate with government, industry, research, and intelligence community partners on MASINT collection and exploitation technologies.

Conduct formal methods research supporting specification and verification of systems-level software. Develop machine-checkable security properties, proofs in Rocq and Lean, and tools in Rust and OCaml. Collaborate on cybersecurity and systems research, verify tools, review technical materials, and document technical decisions and progress. The internship also provides hands-on experience with formal methods, programming language concepts, proof techniques, and secure systems development.

Conduct cryptography research; design, prove, prototype, and evaluate cryptographic primitives, protocols, and systems. Develop implementations involving multiparty computation, distributed key generation, private information retrieval, and privacy-preserving machine learning. Collaborate across formal methods, programming languages, and systems software. Communicate findings through publications, reports, presentations, and briefings, while supporting research planning and proposal development.

Provides technical project management and integration support for U.S. Space Force and NSIC initiatives. Responsibilities include stakeholder engagement, mission planning, task and schedule management, documentation control, governance, acquisition support, process improvement, digital engineering, modeling and simulation integration, data management, and coordination of decision packages. The role supports space and counter-space models, infrastructure planning, capability evaluation, and collaboration among leadership, technical teams, and mission stakeholders.

Conduct applied systems security research across ideation, proposal development, prototyping, experimentation, and technology transition. Design secure systems software, evaluate features in projects such as Linux, Xen, QEMU, and LLVM, and develop research tools using C/C++, Rust, Python, and Assembly. Lead technical investigations, mentor colleagues, author proposals and publications, communicate findings, and collaborate across research and engineering teams.

Provides senior subject matter expertise to the U.S. Space Force on ISR-T and surveillance unit establishment, training, tradecraft, strategic planning, and integration. Supports weapon-system integration, C2ISR planning, sensor and data-feed integration, force generation, facility and manpower planning, operational testing, training programs, doctrine development, CONOPS, and CONEMP. Researches operational issues and briefs senior decision-makers while coordinating unit capabilities with Joint Force organizations.