Capabilities Development Engineer: Software/Hardware

National Security Agency; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 105,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

NSA is seeking a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) at Maryland's Fort Meade complex to join a team of computer science and engineering professionals. You will work on developing offensive and defensive capabilities to deliver critical information to national decision makers as part of the worlds most advanced team.

Ideal candidates have strong software or hardware design, development, testing, or reverse engineering skills in C, C++, assembly, FPGA/Verilog, and embedded systems; a

Qualifications

• Degree must be in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field; other programs with CS concentration may count.
• Experience in engineering hardware or software lifecycle, programming, vulnerability analysis, or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C/C++

Assembly

ARM

Kernel development

Reverse engineering

Malware analysis

Hardware design

Embedded systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ghidra

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

Verilog/VHDL

Job description

NSA is seeking a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) at Maryland's Fort Meade complex to join a team of computer science and engineering professionals. You will work on developing offensive and defensive capabilities to deliver critical information to national decision makers as part of the worlds most advanced team.

Ideal candidates have strong software or hardware design, development, testing, or reverse engineering skills in C, C++, assembly, FPGA/Verilog, and embedded systems; a