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Job Summary

Essential Functions

• Lead the Validation Command as McCrary’s center for independent cybersecurity testing, evaluation, and assurance across operational technology (OT), information technology (IT), and artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
• Direct validation campaigns and use case testing under the Southeast Region Cybersecurity Collaboration Center (SERC3), focusing on energy, water, communications, transportation and critical infrastructure resilience.
• Design and execute adversary-informed testing, red/blue team exercises, zero-trust pilots, and continuity-under-compromise evaluations.
• Develop and maintain rigorous validation methodologies for OT/ICS, AI/ML assurance, RF/communications systems, and multi-domain cyber tools.
• Lead technical execution for programs including DOE/SERC3, USSS Forensics, DOT/FTA RF Toolkit, and USDA/State Program Hygiene Tools, ensuring deliverables meet sponsor expectations.
• Produce authoritative technical reports, playbooks, and findings that inform both operational sponsors and national policy discussions.
• Strengthen partnerships with national laboratories, AI and cybersecurity technology companies, and industry consortia to advance standards-based validation.
• Represent McCrary as the validation authority at technical working groups, industry forums, and federal program reviews.
• Mentor engineers, analysts, and student researchers engaged in validation and testing programs.
• Support capture and proposal development by providing technical insight into test design, validation frameworks, and performance measurement.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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• We’re Here for You: Auburn offers generous benefits, educational opportunities, and a culture of support and work/life balance.
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