Advanced Cyber Capabilities Engineer (HW & SW)

CNSS • National Security Systems; Charlestown (MD); On-site; USD 105,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Full-time Mon-Fri schedule

Job summary

CNSS • National Security Systems seeks a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) at Fort George G. Meade, MD. A CS or engineering background with strong software or hardware design, development, testing, or reverse engineering is required.

Please upload transcripts; unofficial copies are accepted. The CDS will develop high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities for national security missions, including malware analysis and hardware component design, to empower national decision makers

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
• Concentration of CS courses in foundational areas: algorithms, data structures, computer architecture, programming languages.
• Relevant experience: hardware/software lifecycle, programming, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, forensics, systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop exploitation capabilities and analytics to enable foreign target network collection.
• Design hardware components and systems to further signals intelligence missions.
• Analyzing sophisticated malware.

Skills

C

C++

Assembly

ARM

Ghidra

gdb

Malware analysis

Software reverse engineering

Kernel development

Embedded systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree (optional)

Doctoral degree (optional)

Tools

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

Verilog/VHDL

PCB design

Job description

CNSS • National Security Systems seeks a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) at Fort George G. Meade, MD. A CS or engineering background with strong software or hardware design, development, testing, or reverse engineering is required.

Please upload transcripts; unofficial copies are accepted. The CDS will develop high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities for national security missions, including malware analysis and hardware component design, to empower national decision makers