- Fort Meade, Maryland, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Associate
- $114K–$148K per year
- 2+ years
Conduct research and develop cyber security tools and techniques, reverse engineering and exploiting software and hardware systems for U.S. government operations.
Compensation
Associate Staff 3 Hiring Range: $114,000 - $148,000
Responsibilities
- Owns and executes discrete design and development tasks such as data analyses, programming, designs, tests, models, simulations, or integration tasks within broader project or program efforts.
- Applies relevant technical knowledge to solve less-defined and moderately complex problems, independently identifying appropriate methods and adapts existing approaches as needed.
- May contribute to system, subsystem, or component-level development activities that may span multiple disciplines, mission needs, products, or technical focus areas.
- Develops, reviews, and contributes to technical documentation, program reporting, data analyses, design materials, and presentations based on ambiguous policies and procedures.
- Collaborates with project team members to ensure milestones, assumptions, dependencies, and technical risks are understood and addressed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline or other relevant technical field
- Master’s degree in a STEM discipline
- Nice to have: embedded systems firmware reverse engineering
- Nice to have: mobile applications reverse engineering
- Nice to have: malicious code analysis
Skills
reverse engineeringsoftware exploitationhardware reverse engineeringvulnerability researchstatic analysisdynamic instrumentationprogrammingC/C++PythonGitGhidraIDA ProWinDbgGDBAnsibleKubernetesDockerWiresharktcpdumpVMwareQEMUSAT/SMT solverssymbolic executiondata‑flow analysisbinary intermediate representationsbinary translationcompiler constructionanti‑debugging techniquesnetwork and host security products
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
- MIT‑funded pension
- Matching 401K
- Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
- Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs