Capabilities Development Engineer (Cyber)

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

Job summary

CNSS • National Security Systems is seeking a Capabilities Development Specialist to join the NSA's elite team. You will help build high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities for national security, applying deep CS and engineering expertise to deliver critical information to decision makers.

The role covers exploitation, hardware design, malware analysis, and reverse engineering, with a focus on systems that operate at the hardest-to-reach adversaries.

Qualifications

• The qualifications include a CS/Engineering degree with relevant experience.
• Experience in engineering hardware or software lifecycles, vulnerability analysis, and systems engineering.
• Military training such as JCAC may count towards experience.

Responsibilities

• Developing exploitation capabilities and analytics for foreign target network collection.
• Designing hardware components and systems to further signals intelligence missions.
• Analyzing sophisticated malware.

Skills

C

C++

Assembly

ARM

Kernel development

Device driver development

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

Embedded systems development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

FPGA

VHDL

Verilog

PCB

Job description

CNSS • National Security Systems is seeking a Capabilities Development Specialist to join the NSA's elite team. You will help build high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities for national security, applying deep CS and engineering expertise to deliver critical information to decision makers.

The role covers exploitation, hardware design, malware analysis, and reverse engineering, with a focus on systems that operate at the hardest-to-reach adversaries.