Capabilities Development Specialist

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

Job summary

National Security Agency seeks CDS professionals with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills to join our team in fulfilling missions to defend the nation.

The role focuses on cutting-edge capabilities for national security, with responsibilities spanning software and hardware development, assault on high-priority targets, and sophisticated malware analysis. Fort Meade, MD hosts this full-time position with standard weekday hours.

Qualifications

• Degree must be in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in engineering hardware or software lifecycle, programming, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, forensics, or systems engineering.
• Military training (e.g., JCAC) can count as experience.

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

ARM

RE tools

vulnerability analysis

exploitation

OS internals

mobile development

algorithmic analysis

prototyping

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Master's in CS/Engineering

Doctoral degree (CS/Engineering)

Associate's degree with relevant experience

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

VHDL

Verilog

PCB

Job description

National Security Agency seeks CDS professionals with strong software or hardware design, development, testing or reverse engineering skills to join our team in fulfilling missions to defend the nation.

The role focuses on cutting-edge capabilities for national security, with responsibilities spanning software and hardware development, assault on high-priority targets, and sophisticated malware analysis. Fort Meade, MD hosts this full-time position with standard weekday hours.