Lead Digital Forensics Researcher

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!