Cyber Engineer - Reverse Engineering / Vulnerability Research (VR/RE)) - Military veterans preferred

Description

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?

The National Security Sector at Leidos combines technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics to support our defense and intel customers’ mission to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team’s focus is to ensure our customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets.

Your greatest work is ahead!

The CSS Operation at Leidos is seeking a motivated individual to work in a dynamic environment with a team of Cyber Engineers in reverse engineering, vulnerability research, prototyping, design, development, integration, and test tasks to develop capabilities against various networking devices.  This work will leverage your ability to deconstruct and tear-down of a variety of hardware and software, focusing on network devices and technologies, and developing capabilities to utilize the vulnerabilities discovered. The candidate must be experienced in working with a dynamic team of cyber researchers and engineers through all stages of the product lifecycle – from vulnerability research to development and test. This position is contingent upon contract award.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work on a small team conducting vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, and software development.

What does Leidos need from me?

• Active Top Secret/SCI (TS/SCI) security clearance required. Must be U.S. Citizen.
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information systems or applicable engineering field and minimum five (5) years of experience in a commercial, Government, or academic setting
• Minimum five years of experience programming in Assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, and/or Python.
• Experience performing open source research & vulnerability analysis.
• Experience utilizing reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro to analyze firmware of embedded devices.
• Experience using commercial off the shelf (COTS), and free open source (FOS) debugging and analyzer tools.
• Ability to analyze network traffic for vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrated experience with scripting and programming languages.

Favorable if you have:

• Experience applying an Agile methodology to the development of CNO capabilities.
• Experience with disassembly of hardware.
• Demonstrated experience programming techniques to evade host and/or network-based intrusion detection systems.
• Demonstrated experience developing programs to capture, analyze, and interpret raw network traffic.
• Demonstrated experience with network sockets programming including developing packet-level programs, expert packet-level understanding of IP, TCP, and application-level protocols.
• Demonstrated understanding of IP, TCP, and application-level protocols.
• Demonstrated experience with programming cyber tools and techniques for the US Government or commercial sector.
• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Set (JIRA, Confluence).

Original Posting Date:

2023-12-20

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $101,400.00 - $183,300.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.