Capabilities Development Engineer (CDS)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

National Security Agency (NSA) seeks highly skilled professionals for Capabilities Development Specialist roles. You will work on cutting-edge computer science and engineering projects to defend national interests, focusing on software and hardware design, development, testing, and reverse engineering.

Candidates should have strong programming (C, C++, Assembly, ARM) and hardware analysis skills, with experience in vulnerability analysis, debugging tools, and hardware design.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS, Math, or Engineering with relevant software/hardware lifecycle experience.
• Experience in programming, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, or computer forensics.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C

C++

Assembly

ARM

Kernel development

Device driver development

Vulnerability analysis

Reverse engineering

Debugging tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

FPGA

Verilog

VHDL

Job description

National Security Agency (NSA) seeks highly skilled professionals for Capabilities Development Specialist roles. You will work on cutting-edge computer science and engineering projects to defend national interests, focusing on software and hardware design, development, testing, and reverse engineering.

Candidates should have strong programming (C, C++, Assembly, ARM) and hardware analysis skills, with experience in vulnerability analysis, debugging tools, and hardware design.