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CYBERSECURITY SPECIALIST-SS

McLaughlin Research Corporation
Newport, RI Full Time
POSTED ON 1/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/10/2026
Job Description:


McLaughlin Research Corporation (MRC) is seeking a Cybersecurity Specialist who will support the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport RI. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare. The successful candidate must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skill and should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, schedule driven environment.

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
  • Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization
  • Strong C experience in a Linux development environment
  • Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
  • Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
  • Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
  • Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn outside of core discipline
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance




Responsibilities

  • Automate testing of Government managed and developed code base
  • Generate system solutions to increase reliability, ease-of-use, and capability across a variety of customer missions
  • Write and maintain core libraries (frame transformations, targeting and guidance, communications, etc.) that Government Unmanned Undersea Vehicles will use
  • Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture
  • Service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
  • Travel up to 15% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

McLaughlin Research Corporation is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. It is our policy to recruit, hire, promote, and train for all positions without regard to age, race, creed, religion, national origin, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, family responsibilities, pregnancy, minorities, genetic information, status as a person with a disability, amnesty or status as a protected veteran, and to base all such decisions upon the individual's qualifications and ability to perform the work assigned, consistent with contractual requirements and all federal, state and, local laws.

EEO is the Law:
Applicants and employees are protected under Federal law from discrimination.

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