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Job #: R-00087378
Location: Columbia, MD
Category: Cyber Security Research and Development
Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time
Travel Required: No
Shift: Day
Potential for Telework: No
Clearance: Top Secret/SCI
Referral Eligibility: Eligible
Referral Bonus Amount: $5,000.00
Group: Intelligence

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Description

Job Description:

The ever-evolving Cyber landscape requires the development of innovative technical solutions to support operational cyber missions through research, engineering, and development.

The Cyber SIGINT and Solutions 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, software development, integration, and test tasks to develop capabilities against various networking technologies. This work will leverage your experience in supporting cyber activities to analyze, disassemble, and reverse engineer a variety of hardware and software, focusing on networking protocols, communications devices, and emerging technologies.

The Vulnerability Research Engineer must be experienced in working within a dynamic team of cyber researchers and engineers through all stages of the product lifecycle – from vulnerability research to development and test

Basic Qualifications:

•Active TS/SCI Clearance
•Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information systems or applicable engineering field and minimum ten (10) years of experience in computer science, information systems, or network engineering.
•Minimum eight (8) years of experience programming in Assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, and/or Python.
•Minimum five (5) years of experience programming cyber tools and/or techniques
•Experience utilizing reverse engineering and debugging tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Windbg, Radare2, Binary Ninja, Immunity Debugger/Ollydbg, gdb, lldb, or others
•Experience analyzing, disassembling, and reverse engineering software binaries and/or hardware
•Experience performing in-depth analysis (dynamic/static) on diverse set of platforms
•Protocol analysis experience with knowledge of TCP/IP and other networking protocols
•Experience performing open source research & vulnerability analysis
•Experience developing documentation and reports (analysis reports, test reports, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

•Experience performing open source research and vulnerability analysis
•Experience identifying software vulnerabilities and developing code to demonstrate exploitation
•Experience analyzing, disassembling, and reverse engineering software binaries and/or hardware
•Experience performing in-depth analysis (dynamic/static) on diverse set of based platforms
•Experience using tools to extract and analyze firmware or software
•Demonstrated experience with programming cyber tools and techniques
•Experience analyzing firmware of embedded devices
•Ability to analyze network traffic for vulnerabilities
•Developing for real time operating systems (RTOS) and interesting embedded systems.
•Demonstrated experience with programming cyber tools and techniques
•Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver technical findings, briefings, technical presentations, and program documentation to others


External Referral Eligible

Pay Range:

Pay Range $94,250.00 - $145,000.00 - $195,750.00

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.

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 45,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.  For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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