Capabilities Development Specialist Software/Hardware Flexible

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

Job summary

CNSS • National Security Systems is seeking a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) with strong software and hardware design, development, testing, and reverse engineering skills. You will join a team of experts to advance offensive and defensive capabilities for national security missions in a high-security environment at Fort Meade, MD.

The role requires deep knowledge of C, C++, assembly, ARM, OS internals, malware analysis, and hardware design.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/engineering with core topics: algorithms, data structures, programming languages.
• Experience in hardware/software lifecycle: requirements through maintenance.
• Military training like JCAC counts towards experience when relevant.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C

C++

Assembly

ARM

Vulnerability analysis

Debugging tools

Operating system internals

Mobile development

Algorithmic analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Engineering

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Doctoral degree

Associate's degree + 5+ years experience

Tools

Ghidra

OllyDbg

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

FPGA

VHDL

Verilog

Job description

CNSS • National Security Systems is seeking a Capabilities Development Specialist (CDS) with strong software and hardware design, development, testing, and reverse engineering skills. You will join a team of experts to advance offensive and defensive capabilities for national security missions in a high-security environment at Fort Meade, MD.

The role requires deep knowledge of C, C++, assembly, ARM, OS internals, malware analysis, and hardware design.