Remote Senior Digital Forensics Engineer

AnaVation LLC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance (employee & depend.

Dental insurance (100% paid)

Disability insurance (100% paid)

Vision insurance (100% paid)

401k match

Paid leave & holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Life and AD&D Insurance

Job summary

AnaVation is seeking a Senior Forensic Developer to design and build advanced forensic software powering federal cybercrime investigations. You will combine digital-forensics expertise with software engineering to create court-ready tools for artifact extraction, file-system parsing, and memory analysis.

You will work with forensic SMEs, crypto engineers, and software developers to deliver capabilities vital to digital-evidence analysis and cyber-investigative success.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software development experience focused on digital forensics or investigative tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced forensic applications supporting artifact extraction, file-system parsing, memory analysis, and mobile-device parsing
• Engineer automation frameworks to enhance investigative efficiency and evidentiary processing
• Perform reverse engineering and binary analysis to support forensic tool development
• Ensure all tools meet evidentiary standards and validation requirements
• Integrate forensic tooling into enterprise systems and investigative platforms
• Produce technical documentation, design artifacts, and validation reports
• Support investigators and forensic analysts with custom capability development

Skills

Digital forensics

Software development

OS internals

Reverse engineering

Scripting/Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Cybersecurity

Tools

EnCase

AXIOM

X-Ways

Cellebrite

IDA Pro

Ghidra

radare2

Job description

AnaVation is seeking a Senior Forensic Developer to design and build advanced forensic software powering federal cybercrime investigations. You will combine digital-forensics expertise with software engineering to create court-ready tools for artifact extraction, file-system parsing, and memory analysis.

You will work with forensic SMEs, crypto engineers, and software developers to deliver capabilities vital to digital-evidence analysis and cyber-investigative success.