Capabilities Development Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

NSA is seeking Capabilities Development Specialists (CDS) to join our team at Fort Meade, MD. You will develop offensive and defensive capabilities and research hardware and software tools to defend national interests.

Candidates should have strong software/hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills and a degree in CS, engineering, or a related field. U.S. Citizenship required; security background checks apply.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in hardware/software lifecycle, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, forensics, or systems engineering.
• Military JCAC training counted toward experience.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C/C++

Assembly/ARM

Kernel development

Device driver development

Vulnerability analysis

Reverse engineering

Embedded systems

Networking

Certifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

Job description

NSA is seeking Capabilities Development Specialists (CDS) to join our team at Fort Meade, MD. You will develop offensive and defensive capabilities and research hardware and software tools to defend national interests.

Candidates should have strong software/hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills and a degree in CS, engineering, or a related field. U.S. Citizenship required; security background checks apply.