For more than two decades, Keystone has been a premier, tech-forward strategy and economics consulting firm, helping leading technology companies, global brands, and top law firms solve their most complex challenges in competition, strategy, and regulation.

Our founders believed that modern consulting should integrate economics, strategy, and technology to drive true digital transformation and business model innovation. That’s what we call our “Triad of Skills." Keystone brings this interdisciplinary approach to the forefront of influential technology cases, changing consumer behavior and regulation laws and impacting society on a global scale, by leveraging the intersection of economics, technology, and business strategy to deliver transformative ideas.

• As we rapidly expand globally, we are redefining what a consulting firm can be.

Keystone’s practices sit within our Economic, Technology, and Strategy Advisory (ETSA) group, which provides expert guidance across high-stakes business, legal, and technology challenges.

What we do

ETSA leverages Keystone's connections with leading industry and academic experts to solve complex legal and regulatory issues and win high-stakes legal cases. Through our Centres of Excellence in Keystone Economics and Keystone Advanced Technology Services, we unite economists, technologists and management scientists to solve the hardest problems facing our clients

• How we operate

Our tech-native, internal consultants bring unique insights and experience to evaluate and solve client issues. Our economic, industry, and tech experts carry out in-depth analysis, build robust data and technology solutions, and produce economic and technology reports that win cases.

• Who we serve
• Our ETSA group helps major law firms, Fortune Global 500 companies, leading technology companies, and government agencies.
• Our practice areas
• Antitrust & Competition
• Financial Economics, Tax, and Securities (FETS)
• Intellectual Property (IP)
• Information Strategy, Risk and Regulation (ISRR)
• Healthcare and Life Sciences
• Technical Investigations
• Behavioral Insights
• Strategy Consulting

As a Source Code Investigations Engineer at Keystone, you will dive deep into complex software systems to uncover evidence of intellectual property infringement. Your work will span from tracing the lineage of algorithms and identifying copied or derivative code, to presenting structured technical findings that withstand legal scrutiny.

• Role Expectations
• Analyze software systems and present summary findings to clients
• Assess the originality, similarity, and differences between multiple software systems
• Reverse engineer software applications, features, and functionality
• Evaluate the complexity and value of software developed
• Investigate the behavior of software systems against expected behavior from legal claims
• Draft documents describing the functionality and behavior of software systems
• Present technical findings to non-technical clients
• Develop and productize tools to make source code analysis more efficient and scalable
• Experience working as a software consultant, source code reviewer, and/or software engineer
• Fluency in a variety of programming languages, databases, and platforms, such as: Java, C++, C, C#, Python, PHP, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS

Deep understanding of fundamental concepts in computer science, such as: data structures, architecture design, programming paradigms (object-oriented, functional, declarative), algorithms, distributed computing, concurrency, computational complexity, database systems, networking, compilers, and machine learning

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Capacity to work in fast-paced, high-stakes environment
• A desire to be a part of and help grow a great team and organization
• The passion to learn, grow, and help us to improve our business
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science; Master’s is a plus

At Keystone we believe diversity matters. At every level of our firm, we seek to advance and promote diversity, foster an inclusive culture, and ensure our colleagues have a deep sense of respect and belonging. If you are interested in growing your career with colleagues from varied backgrounds and cultures, consider Keystone. In addition to annual salary, we provide annual 401k contributions and competitive benefits package. Actual Compensation within the range will depend upon the level the individual is hired into based on their skills, experience, and qualifications. Annual Salary Range $135,000 — $186,000 USD