Cyber Capabilities Development Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

National Security Agency (NSA) seeks Capabilities Development Specialists to advance high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities. You will join a world-class team of computer science and engineering professionals at Fort Meade, MD, delivering hardware and software tools for national security applications.

Requirements include CS/engineering degrees and strong experience in software or hardware design, development, testing, or reverse engineering.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS, Mathematics, Engineering or related field with foundational CS coursework.
• Relevant experience in hardware/software lifecycle, vulnerability analysis or systems engineering.
• Military training like JCAC counted as experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop exploitation capabilities and analytics for target network collection.
• Design hardware components to support signals intelligence missions.
• Analyze sophisticated malware and reverse engineering efforts.

Skills

C programming

C++

Assembly

ARM architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ghidra

gdb

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

Job description

National Security Agency (NSA) seeks Capabilities Development Specialists to advance high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities. You will join a world-class team of computer science and engineering professionals at Fort Meade, MD, delivering hardware and software tools for national security applications.

Requirements include CS/engineering degrees and strong experience in software or hardware design, development, testing, or reverse engineering.