Capabilities Development Engineer (CDS)

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

Job summary

NSA seeks Capabilities Development Specialists to develop high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities, targeting adversarial networks and delivering information to national decision makers. The role involves software and hardware design, development, testing, and reverse engineering within a world-class team at Fort Meade, MD.

Applicants should have strong skills in C/C++, Assembly, ARM, and malware analysis; qualifications include CS/Engineering degrees and relevant experience across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field; advanced degrees count.
• Experience in engineering hardware or software lifecycle, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, or forensics.
• Military JCAC training may count as relevant experience.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C/C++/Assembly

ARM development

Reverse engineering

Vulnerability analysis

Operating system internals

Mobile platform analysis

Algorithmic analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

GDB

Job description

NSA seeks Capabilities Development Specialists to develop high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities, targeting adversarial networks and delivering information to national decision makers. The role involves software and hardware design, development, testing, and reverse engineering within a world-class team at Fort Meade, MD.

Applicants should have strong skills in C/C++, Assembly, ARM, and malware analysis; qualifications include CS/Engineering degrees and relevant experience across the