Capabilities Development Specialist - Advanced Cyber

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CNSS • National Security Systems in Fort Meade, MD seeks a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) to develop high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities for adversarial networks and national decision-makers. You will join the world’s most advanced team of computer science and engineering professionals.

Responsibilities include exploiting capabilities, hardware design for signals intelligence, and analyzing sophisticated malware, with opportunities to apply deep software and hardware

Qualifications

• Degree in CS or Engineering with relevant experience in software/hardware lifecycles.
• Experience in vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, or forensics is relevant.
• Military training (e.g., JCAC) counts toward experience requirements.

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++/ASM

Reverse engineering

Embedded systems

Algorithmic analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Doctoral degree (relevant)

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

GDB

JTAG

Job description

CNSS • National Security Systems in Fort Meade, MD seeks a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) to develop high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities for adversarial networks and national decision-makers. You will join the world’s most advanced team of computer science and engineering professionals.

Responsibilities include exploiting capabilities, hardware design for signals intelligence, and analyzing sophisticated malware, with opportunities to apply deep software and hardware