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Senior SAFE Lab Cybersecurity Engineer
Rochester Institute of Technology
$81.6–100K / year · Rochester, New York, US
Rochester, New York, US (Hybrid)1 open job
Private university in Rochester, New York offering undergraduate through doctoral programs across nine colleges, with the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute focused on cybersecurity education and research.
Rochester Institute of Technology runs the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, a facility dedicated to cybersecurity education and research, inside a private university in Rochester, New York founded in 1829. Cybersecurity work sits alongside engineering, technology, science, art, and business programs across RIT's nine colleges, with research centers and specialized labs supporting applied work rather than theory alone.
The institution's operating model is built around experiential learning: cooperative education integrates classroom instruction with workplace practice, undergraduate research runs alongside it, and graduate and doctoral programs extend the pipeline. For cybersecurity practitioners and researchers, that means a setting where instruction, R&D, and industry-facing work intersect - the domain spans education, research and development, and the operational realities of preparing graduates for a global economy.
Scale is concrete: roughly 16,500 undergraduates, 4,200 graduate students, and over 3,800 faculty and staff, with more than 200 student clubs and NCAA Division III athletics on a single Rochester campus. Domains across the university cover engineering, technology, science, art and design, business, and cybersecurity.