Lead Cyber Engineer

Integer Technologies

$108K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • U.S. Citizen able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance
  • Bachelor's degree with 8 years or Master's degree with 6 years of experience in cybersecurity, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related fields
  • Proven leadership in cyber-physical systems research and vulnerability analysis
  • Expertise in embedded systems cybersecurity, including memory forensics and binary analysis
  • Experience with AI/ML approaches for embedded systems anomaly detection
  • Background in conducting laboratory or simulation-based experiments for cyber resilience
  • Strong communication skills for sponsor and cross-institutional collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership in cyber-physical R&D, structuring tasks and guiding team members
  • Lead research into dynamic cyber defense, focusing on vulnerability and resilience
  • Drive AI/ML anomaly detection research for embedded systems and model integration
  • Oversee bench-scale experiments, ensuring validation of resilience concepts
  • Act as primary technical liaison with LSU and other university partners
  • Collaborate with Navy sponsors and research teams to refine technical plans
  • Contribute to business development by shaping research directions and drafting proposals

Benefits

  • Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance for employee and dependents
  • Relocation assistance available
  • Base salaries exceeding local and national industry averages
  • Year-end performance-based bonuses
  • 401(k) with immediate company matching
  • Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
Full Job Description
About the role

Integer Technologies seeks a Lead Cyber Engineer to provide senior-level technical leadership across research efforts supporting Navy-relevant cyber-physical systems. This role builds on the capabilities of a Senior Cyber Engineer with elevated expectations in engineering leadership, task planning, stakeholder engagement, and business development.

The Lead Cyber Engineer will help shape technical approaches, guide junior and mid-career engineers, and serve as a key technical interface with both Navy sponsors and our LSU university partners, who play a central role in modeling, experimentation, and AI/ML research. The Lead Engineer will also contribute to business development and capture by helping identify new research directions, drafting technical proposal content, and supporting sponsor engagement. This position demands strong initiative, deep expertise in cyber-physical research, and the ability to execute complex R&D with minimal oversight.

What you'll do

  • Provide technical leadership across cyber-physical R&D, helping structure tasking, refine approaches, and guide engineers performing modeling, analysis, dynamic defense development, and feasibility studies.
  • Lead research into dynamic cyber defense methods, including vulnerability taxonomies, defensive strategies, mission-impact metrics, and lifecycle-aware resilience approaches.
  • Drive AI/ML-basedanomaly detection research for embedded systems and support integration of advanced analytics into modeling and test environments.
  • Develop and overseebench-scale experiments and digital modeling environments, ensuring experimental rigor and clear validation of cyber-physical resilience concepts.
  • Serve as a primary technical interface with LSU and other university partners, coordinating joint research activities, experiment planning, and shared modeling or AI/ML development tasks.
  • Collaborate with Navy sponsors, program managers, and research teams to refine technical plans, present findings, and support assessment cycles.
  • Contribute to business development and capture, including shaping new research directions, authoring technical proposal content, and maintaining relationships with government and academic stakeholders.
  • Producehigh-quality documentation, including research papers, experiment reports, sponsor deliverables, and clear presentations of complex technical findings.

Required Qualifications

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen able to obtain andmaintain a DoD Secret clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience, or Master's degree and 6 years of experience in cybersecurity, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related discipline.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership experience in cyber-physical systems research, including modeling, simulation, vulnerability analysis, or dynamic defense concept development.
  • Strong background in embedded systems cybersecurity, including memory forensics, fuzzing, and binary analysis.
  • Experience with AI/ML-enabled anomaly detection or modeling approaches for embedded systems.
  • Experience designing, executing, or leading laboratory and simulation-based experiments for cyber-physical resilience assessment.
  • Excellent communication skills for sponsor interaction, proposal development, and cross-institution collaboration.


Desired Qualifications

  • Experience collaborating directly with university research groups or academic laboratories.
  • Familiarity with Navy ashore/afloat platforms and/or maritime cyber-physical systems.
  • Experience developing or applying mission-impact models for cyber-physical systems.
  • Background with digital simulation environments.
  • Experience contributing technical content to proposals, white papers, or long-term research plans.
  • Experience working in CUI environments or contributing to multi-phase research deliverables.


Company Benefits

  • Integer fully covers medical, prescription, vision, and dental insurance costs for the employee and dependents. Meaning Integer standard plan pays 100% of health insurance premiums for your entire family from a well-known national insurer, saving its employee's thousands of dollars annually.
  • Relocation assistance available.
  • Base salaries which exceed local & national industry averages.
  • Year-end performance-based bonuses.
  • 401(k) with company matching that vest immediately; no funny business.
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays


Company Perks

  • Startup culture with the stability of a large company. Integer's business plan has years of time-phased contracted work, alleviating the would-be risk from a traditional small company.
  • Direct access to company leadership, prioritization of people over process, and a stellar team with a shared desire for personal and professional growth.
  • Friendly atmosphere where people enjoy not only their work and what they're creating but enjoy helping each other as well.

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