Capabilities Development Engineer (CDS)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

National Security Agency seeks professionals with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills to join our Capabilities Development Specialist team. You will work on cutting-edge research and create tools to defend national interests.

Qualified candidates have CS/engineering backgrounds with hands-on experience in programming, vulnerability analysis, and hardware design.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS, math, engineering or related field.
• Experience in hardware/software lifecycle, programming, vulnerability analysis, or systems engineering.
• Military training (e.g., JCAC) counts toward experience if applicable.

Responsibilities

• Develop exploitation capabilities and analytics for target networks.
• Design hardware components to support signals intelligence missions.
• Analyze sophisticated malware and reverse engineer complex files.

Skills

C

C++

Assembly

ARM

Vulnerability analysis

Penetration testing

Ghidra/OllyDbg

Kernel development

Software debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree (optional)

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

Job description

National Security Agency seeks professionals with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills to join our Capabilities Development Specialist team. You will work on cutting-edge research and create tools to defend national interests.

Qualified candidates have CS/engineering backgrounds with hands-on experience in programming, vulnerability analysis, and hardware design.