MIT Lincoln Laboratory · 4 hours ago
Group 05-59 | CO-OP (RE) | Cyber System Assessments | July - December 2026
Lexington, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
New Grad
$24.50/hr - $31/hrMIT Lincoln Laboratory is a research and development center that supports U.S. government missions. The Cyber System Exploitation Co-Op role involves conducting research and development on offensive software and malware, working under mentorship to develop skills in areas such as reverse engineering and AI/ML approaches to malware analysis.
BiotechnologyInformation TechnologyNational SecuritySecurity
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Conduct research and development on offensive software (malware)
Develop systems to enable malware reverse engineering
Research novel and creative techniques to automate reverse engineering
Develop metrics
Perform exploratory data analysis on large malware corpora
Incorporate AI/ML/data science into malware analysis
Build new malware corpora
Develop distributed systems for large-scale automated malware analysis
Qualification
Required
Candidates must be a junior or senior undergraduate, or a graduate, degree candidate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics, or similar technical program
Ability to develop a self-driven research project
Ability to communicate effectively through technical writing/presentation
Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance
Preferred
Reverse engineering
Static/dynamic software analysis
AI/ML/data science approaches to malware analysis
Windows/Linux OS internals
Python
C/C++
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana
Docker/Kubernetes
Git
Jenkins
Company
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security.
Founded in 1951
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.25MKey Investors
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
2023-12-20Grant· $0.25M
Leadership Team
Israel Soibelman
Chief Strategy Officer
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