Senior CNO Developer — Defense Cyber Research, TS/SCI

Research Innovations; Melbourne (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with company match

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Research Innovations, Inc. in Florida seeks a Senior Security Researcher to join our Cyber security team. You will build offensive software for challenging environments and advance CNO capabilities across multiple layers, including userland, kernel, and network.

The role requires strong C and Python skills and direct CNO/Exploit experience. The position requires an Active US Top Secret security clearance with the ability to upgrade to TS/SCI.

Qualifications

• Significant experience programming in C and Python.
• Direct experience developing CNO or exploit capabilities.
• Embedded or firmware development experience on resource-constrained systems.
• Experience developing in Windows or UNIX apps using Visual Studio/.NET or makefiles.
• Familiarity with version control tools (Git, Subversion, CVS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Bamboo).
• Experience with debugging/troubleshooting tools and techniques.
• Software Analysis/Reverse Engineering experience.
• Comfort writing assembly or mixed C/ASM when needed.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Build offense-grade software for denied, constrained environments.
• Design and debug CNO capabilities across userland, kernel, and network layers.
• Tear down and modernize legacy tooling for performance and maintainability.
• Develop software across Windows, Linux/Unix, embedded, mobile, and network devices.
• Perform deep binary analysis and reverse engineering across architectures.
• Evolve reproducible build systems, toolchains, and test harnesses.
• Work close to the metal: compilers, loaders, memory, and runtime behavior.
• Travel as determined by the customer.

Skills

C programming

Python programming

CNO development

Embedded/firmware

Windows/UNIX apps

Git/Subversion

CI/CD pipelines

Debugging techniques

Reverse engineering

Assembly language

Interpersonal skills

Tools

Git

Subversion

Jenkins

GitLab

Bamboo

Job description

Research Innovations, Inc. in Florida seeks a Senior Security Researcher to join our Cyber security team. You will build offensive software for challenging environments and advance CNO capabilities across multiple layers, including userland, kernel, and network.

The role requires strong C and Python skills and direct CNO/Exploit experience. The position requires an Active US Top Secret security clearance with the ability to upgrade to TS/SCI.