Research and Development Engineer

In today's environment our clients' abilities to respond to requests for information are more important than ever - and through people, processes, tools, and technology, we help them do so. Are you excited about exploring innovative ways to visualize data, use analytics, and help clients find relevant information in an ever-growing sea of emails and electronic documents? Do you have a legal or technology background and want to continue to grow your skills and abilities? We are a practice that brings together teams focusing on thought diversity, collaborative problem solving, and development of our professionals to enable our Government and Public Services (GPS) Discovery & Data Management Practice clients face litigation and other regulatory requirements with the resources to efficiently and effectively assist the government and respond to information requests. If you want to help clients make sense of their data and are passionate about keeping up with the latest data trends and technology sources, then our team would be a great fit for you!

Work you'll do:

• Perform as a research and development engineer in support of Deloitte's law enforcement clientele.
• Develop customized support and device coverage, prototypes, validation, and calibration analytics for the product.
• Independently maintain secure and high quality customizations, integrations, and plugins for the product, including build, validation, and deployment pipelines.
• Assist research into firmware and hardware vulnerabilities and integrity, providing vetted and feasible prototypes for the product.

The team

Deloitte's Government and Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes-is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of over 15,000+ professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Discovery is constantly evolving and changing as data volumes and sources continue to grow exponentially. We aim to help our clients solve their most pressing data management challenges by bringing key stakeholders together and helping them to navigate challenges such as cloud migration, implications of new technologies, evolving data sources, and pressure due to time constraints or regulatory requirements. Our practice has established itself as a leader in delivering the full spectrum of Discovery services to government agencies. Our teams apply eDiscovery leading practices and leverage analytics technology, as well as traditional legal research and writing, to assist government attorneys and agency staff through the litigation or information request process.

Our teams work with government attorneys on litigation readiness; to collect, process, analyze, review, and produce data; and to support discovery requests, depositions, hearings, and trials. Our team applies decades of experience and knowledge gleaned from thousands of cases to each stage of a litigation or dispute engagement, from case theory development and discovery to witness testimony. We use proprietary tools, methodologies, and technology-including data mining and mapping, electronic discovery, and computer forensic capabilities-to address our clients' needs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 5+ years of experience within eDiscovery is required
• Familiarity with low-level firmware and/or OS security
• Familiarity writing device drivers that interact directly with hardware
• Familiarity with vulnerability discovery and exploitation
• Areas of principal research and tool development will include process automation, forensic triage, validation mechanisms, ETL techniques, data fusion, emerging technology analysis and more.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in related subject
• A strong intellectual curiosity with an interest in learning brand-new sets of information
• Track record of innovation and some technology
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Ability to think outside the box, innovate, and help team and client improve workflows to achieve greater efficiencies