Lead Digital Forensics Researcher
ADF Solutions is a dynamic American company that creates innovative digital forensics applications for global law enforcement agencies, legal firms, the defense sector, and private corporations. We are seeking a talented and motivated digital forensics researcher to lead our expanding team and work in the exciting and ever-evolving fields of digital forensics, eDiscovery, cyber security, and tactical site exploitation.
As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to:
* Lead a small team of digital forensics researchers and developers.
* Identify new digital forensic artefacts in operating systems and software applications that are relevant to digital investigations.
* Reverse engineer complex data structures (digital artifacts such as log files, databases, etc), document your findings, and write simple Python modules to parse these data structures.
* Closely collaborate with our Business Analyst and Product Owner to influence product design in order to help investigators better understand digital artifacts.
* Create realistic data sets to seed devices for research and validation.
* Regularly conduct forensic testing of the ADF products to ensure they are reporting the correct results which are in accordance with specifications and forensic research.
* Constantly interact with the digital forensics community to help them and learn from them.
Qualifications:
* Must be a team player in a distributed work environment with team members in the US and Europe. Be a great communicator and know how to make your work visible.
* Prior employment with a government agency as a digital forensics examiner.
* 1+ years of Python development working on file/data structure parsing, and data processing.
* Experience with SQL queries and sqlite in particular.
* Be self-motivated and interested in making digital investigators' lives easier.
* Must be able to communicate in English easily with remote teammates.
Location:
* Work remotely (dedicated workspace required), in a European time zone (WET, CET).
* Attend semi-annual in-person meetings in Europe to connect with your colleagues.
Contract:
* Enjoy self-employed status for a full-time 40 hour/week position with ADF and competitive compensation in US dollars, 30 days off (holidays and vacation), and 10 sick days included in your compensation.
How to Apply:
* We ask everyone to answer a simple online questionnaire to assess your motivation and your qualification (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPcSiLHLEj5sqv6FUsorDBKphODmz6aVcW_evtNSFFt7RK-Q/viewform). These will be reviewed manually.
* Once completed, we will contact you to schedule a call.
If you want to help create meaningful products that help make the world a safer place, apply today!