POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
Performs basic or applied research of a limited scope, primarily using existing theories and methods. Assists the supervisor in the interpretation and publication of results and grants. Maintains the laboratory and may exercise functional supervision over supporting research staff. Primary responsibility is ensuring that the research is complete. The appointment generally does not extend beyond two years.

Responsibilities:
- Perform research at the intersection of cyber security and machine learning.

- Designs and implements scalable computer systems for detecting realistic cyber attacks by using machine learning. Participates in engagements with funding agencies and industry collaborators to demonstrate the practical applicability of developed software.

- Works on performing adversarial robustness analysis of machine learning based detectors in cyber security and improving their resilience to evasion and poisoning attacks.

- Participates in research projects in a team with graduate and undergraduate students. Solves cutting-edge research problems, produces innovating results, participates in paper writing, and presentations in conferences.

- Interacts with sponsoring agencies and external university collaborators to design system architecture and requirements.

- Designs, implements, performs testing, and writes documentation for complex programs. Writes detailed reports on system architecture, design, and testing. Prepares documentation for external users as required.

Qualifications:
Must have a Ph.D. or equivalent; be able to undertake substantially full-time research or scholarship; work under the supervision of a senior scholar.

General system security and threat modeling skills.

Knowledge of malware detection methods.

Knowledge of machine learning and data mining techniques, and their applications to cyber security.


Preferred Qualifications:

Salary Grade:
10

Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.


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