Capabilities Development Engineer

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

Job summary

CNSS • National Security Systems is seeking a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) at Fort Meade, MD. You will help develop custom offensive and defensive capabilities for adversarial networks, applying your expertise to relay critical information to national decision makers as part of a premier team of computer science and engineering professionals.

You will work on exploitation analytics, hardware design for signals intelligence, and malware analysis, contributing across software and

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related field; multiple pathways exist per seniority.
• Experience in engineering hardware or software across lifecycle; programming, vulnerability analysis, or systems engineering.
• Military training (e.g., JCAC) may count toward experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop exploitation capabilities and analytics for foreign target networks.
• Design hardware components and systems to support signals intelligence missions.
• Analyze sophisticated malware to support defensive and offensive operations.

Skills

C

C++

Assembly

ARM

Algorithm analysis

Prototyping

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

Job description

CNSS • National Security Systems is seeking a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) at Fort Meade, MD. You will help develop custom offensive and defensive capabilities for adversarial networks, applying your expertise to relay critical information to national decision makers as part of a premier team of computer science and engineering professionals.

You will work on exploitation analytics, hardware design for signals intelligence, and malware analysis, contributing across software and