Capabilities Development Engineer – Cyber & Hardware

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

Job summary

NSA is seeking computer science or computer/electrical engineering professionals with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills to join as a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) at the Fort George G. Meade Complex in Maryland. Upload transcripts (unofficial okay).

The role supports groundbreaking research to defend the nation. As a CDS, you will develop high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities, apply expertise to create new ways to get

Qualifications

• Minimum CS/Engineering concentration in foundational CS areas.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering required; relevant coursework in algorithms, data structures, architecture.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C/C++

Assembly

Software Development

Penetration Testing

Reverse Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ghidra

Debuggers

JTAG

Job description

NSA is seeking computer science or computer/electrical engineering professionals with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills to join as a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) at the Fort George G. Meade Complex in Maryland. Upload transcripts (unofficial okay).

The role supports groundbreaking research to defend the nation. As a CDS, you will develop high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities, apply expertise to create new ways to get