Capabilities Development Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NSA needs professionals with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills for a Capabilities Development Specialist role at Fort Meade, MD. You will work on offensive and defensive capabilities, tackling challenging adversarial networks and delivering tools for national decision makers.

Candidates should have CS or engineering backgrounds, plus hands-on experience in malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, and kernel/driver development.

Qualifications

• The position requires a CS/Engineering degree with strong fundamentals.
• Experience in engineering hardware or software over lifecycle is required.
• Proven ability in vulnerability analysis or penetration testing is valued.
• Military training such as JCAC counts towards experience; relevant certifications help.
• Entry to Expert levels based on education and years of experience.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C

C++

Assembly

ARM

Malware analysis

Reverse engineering

Kernel development

Device driver development

CISSP

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

Job description

NSA needs professionals with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills for a Capabilities Development Specialist role at Fort Meade, MD. You will work on offensive and defensive capabilities, tackling challenging adversarial networks and delivering tools for national decision makers.

Candidates should have CS or engineering backgrounds, plus hands-on experience in malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, and kernel/driver development.