Capabilities Development Engineer

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

Job summary

CNSS • National Security Systems seeks skilled CDS professionals to build and analyze advanced hardware and software solutions for high-priority national security tasks. You will develop offensive and defensive capabilities and work on complex malware and hardware projects with leading engineers.

The role emphasizes deep expertise in C/C++, reverse engineering, and hardware design across the full lifecycle, with a focus on national security missions and innovative cyber capabilities development.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in hardware/software lifecycle: requirements, design, development, testing, integration, deployment, maintenance.
• Military cyber training (e.g., JCAC) counts as related experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop exploitation capabilities and analytics for foreign target network collection.
• Design hardware components to support signals intelligence missions.
• Analyze sophisticated malware.

Skills

C/C++

Assembly

ARM

Java

Kernel development

Device driver development

Software reverse engineering

Malware reverse engineering

Hardware design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

FPGA

Job description

CNSS • National Security Systems seeks skilled CDS professionals to build and analyze advanced hardware and software solutions for high-priority national security tasks. You will develop offensive and defensive capabilities and work on complex malware and hardware projects with leading engineers.

The role emphasizes deep expertise in C/C++, reverse engineering, and hardware design across the full lifecycle, with a focus on national security missions and innovative cyber capabilities development.