Mission-Critical App Security Engineer | Flexible Hours

SciTec; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 98,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match

Health insurance paid by the company

Dental insurance 80% company paid

Vision insurance 100% company paid

Life insurance 100% company paid

Long-term Disability insurance 100%

Hospital Indemnity insurance 100%

Voluntary Accident and Critical Illnes

Short-term Disability insurance

Profit-Sharing Plan

Discretionary Performance Bonus

Paid Parental Leave

Generous PTO and holidays

Flexible Work Hours

Job summary

SciTec in New Jersey seeks an Application Security Engineer to secure mission-critical software by embedding security into the development lifecycle. You will work with developers in a DevSecOps environment to analyze, remediate, and harden OPIR processing software for missile warning and defense applications.

The role emphasizes hands-on security analysis, tooling integration, and collaboration across teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and secure design reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 2+ years of professional experience in cybersecurity or software development, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience focused on application/security.
• Experience analyzing source code for security flaws.
• Familiarity with secure software development practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to qualify for and maintain a DoD or DoE Secret security clearance.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Perform application security analysis using automated and manual techniques (SAST, SCA, fuzzing, design reviews).
• Identify, analyze, and help remediate application vulnerabilities.
• Support engineers in integrating security into designs and CI/CD DevSecOps pipelines.
• Design and improve continuous integration security analysis tooling.
• Tune security tools to reduce false positives and improve signal quality.
• Assist teams in understanding findings and implementing fixes.
• Stay current with emerging vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies.
• Document findings, recommendations and best practices.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

C++

Python

JavaScript

Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Coverity

SonarQube

Snyk

AFL

Job description

SciTec in New Jersey seeks an Application Security Engineer to secure mission-critical software by embedding security into the development lifecycle. You will work with developers in a DevSecOps environment to analyze, remediate, and harden OPIR processing software for missile warning and defense applications.

The role emphasizes hands-on security analysis, tooling integration, and collaboration across teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and secure design reviews.