Capabilities Development Engineer — Defense Tech

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

Job summary

NSA seeks Capabilities Development Specialists to advance offensive and defensive capabilities for national security at Fort Meade, MD. You will join an elite team to deliver critical information to decision makers and contribute to groundbreaking research in software and hardware tools.

Ideal candidates have strong C/C++/assembly skills, malware analysis expertise, hardware reverse engineering, and OS internals knowledge.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS or Engineering with foundational CS coursework.
• Experience in programming, vulnerability analysis, or systems engineering.
• Military training such as JCAC counted as experience.
• Senior/Expert levels require years of relevant work experience at each level.

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

Software RE/Debugging

Vulnerability analysis

OS internals

Mobile platform development

Algorithmic analysis

Malware reverse engineering

Hardware RE

Hardware design

Testing & debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's degree in related field

Doctoral degree with relevant focus

Associate's degree + 5 years related experience

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

FPGA

Verilog

PCB design

Job description

NSA seeks Capabilities Development Specialists to advance offensive and defensive capabilities for national security at Fort Meade, MD. You will join an elite team to deliver critical information to decision makers and contribute to groundbreaking research in software and hardware tools.

Ideal candidates have strong C/C++/assembly skills, malware analysis expertise, hardware reverse engineering, and OS internals knowledge.