Capabilities Development Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NSA seeks professionals in computer science or computer/electrical engineering with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills to join as a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS). We conduct innovative research and produce hardware and software tools to defend the nation.

Fort George G. Meade Complex, MD, full-time role with DCIPS considerations and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/Engineering with related coursework in algorithms, data structures, programming languages, and math.
• Experience in hardware or software lifecycle activities including requirements, design, development, testing, and maintenance.
• Experience in vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, forensics, or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Developing exploitation capabilities and analytics for foreign target networks.
• Designing hardware components and systems to support signals intelligence missions.
• Analyzing sophisticated malware.

Skills

C/C++

Assembly

ARM

OS internals

Reverse engineering

Kernel development

Device driver development

Security testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree

Doctoral degree

Associate's degree with relevant experience

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

FPGA

Verilog

VHDL

Job description

NSA seeks professionals in computer science or computer/electrical engineering with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills to join as a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS). We conduct innovative research and produce hardware and software tools to defend the nation.

Fort George G. Meade Complex, MD, full-time role with DCIPS considerations and a comprehensive benefits package.