Capabilities Development Engineer

CNSS • National Security Systems; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 105,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NSA needs professionals to join a world-class team developing offensive and defensive capabilities for national decision-makers. You will work on malware analysis, hardware design, and signals intelligence in a highly technical environment.

We seek experts in C/C++, assembly, OS internals, and reverse engineering, with opportunities to contribute across software and hardware domains at Fort Meade, MD. This is a full-time, on-site role with a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/Math/Engineering or related field with foundational CS coursework.
• Relevant lifecycle experience: requirements, design, development, testing, deployment/maintenance.
• Military training (JCAC) counts as experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop exploitation capabilities and analytics for foreign target networks.
• Design hardware components for signals intelligence missions.
• Analyze sophisticated malware and reverse engineering tasks.

Skills

C/C++ development

Assembly

ARM

RE/debugging tools

vulnerability analysis

Operating system internals

mobile platform analysis

algorithmic analysis

prototyping

Malware Reverse Engineering

Hardware Specialties

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree

Doctoral degree

Associate's degree + 5 years

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

FPGA

VHDL

Verilog

PCB

Job description

NSA needs professionals to join a world-class team developing offensive and defensive capabilities for national decision-makers. You will work on malware analysis, hardware design, and signals intelligence in a highly technical environment.

We seek experts in C/C++, assembly, OS internals, and reverse engineering, with opportunities to contribute across software and hardware domains at Fort Meade, MD. This is a full-time, on-site role with a competitive salary and benefits.