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The National Security Department within MITRE’s Intelligence Center has the responsibility to deliver a cross-organizational set of projects for the MITRE Intelligence Center. We provide cybersecurity and SIGINT expertise to ensure the resilience and survivability of DoD, IC infrastructure, and National Security Systems (NSS) in the face of adversary threats. Our mission is to enable a cybersecurity posture that promotes protection and prevention of actions taken to compromise mission critical devices, services, platforms, products, and software of interest to the U.S. and its allies. Our highly agile team provides support across sponsors using knowledge and skills such as cybersecurity engineering, applied research and development, reverse engineering, software engineering, systems engineering and integration, offensive and defensive cyber operations, advanced cyber threats, adversary methodologies, cyber threat intelligence analysis, and technology analysis and assessments.

Job Description:

The National Security Department is looking for a Senior Cyber Reverse Engineer to join our team. In this role you will:

• Conduct applied research and development in one or more of the following technical cyber areas: cybersecurity, threat informed cybersecurity, weapons and space systems cybersecurity reverse engineering, software development & dev sec ops, analytic development, systems engineering , vulnerability analysis, mitigation development, system assessments, cyber threat intelligence , offensive and defensive cyber operations, AI/ML, and post-quantum implementations.

• Research and develop unique, cutting-edge technical capabilities and processes for understanding, assessing, and analyzing system and technology resilience and security.

• Lead the development of systems security and cybersecurity strategy development, system testing and evaluation, and verification and validation efforts.

• Analyze network systems and protocols.

• Learn and assess new and emerging technologies and trends, find vulnerabilities, and develop recommended paths forward to mitigate the vulnerability.

• Advise sponsors as a trusted third-party independent entity on solutions to their most difficult cyber and engineering problems.

• Drive solutions to best counter adversary cybersecurity and reverse engineering efforts through system design practices, countermeasures, and other mitigations, or possess the ability to conduct reverse engineering research and development.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph clearance.

• Due to the lengthy clearance process, candidates without an existing TS/SCI clearance with FS polygraph cannot be considered for this opening.

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related engineering discipline.

• Demonstrated success in applying cyber security engineering principles to conduct system engineering analysis.

• Familiarity with Reverse Engineering and Debugging Tools (e.g., Ghidra, IDA Pro, GDB, WinDbg, Emulators)

• Familiarity with assembly Languages (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.)

• Experience reverse engineering compiled binaries.

• Software development experience with higher or lower-level languages.

• Ability to work with others to solve challenging technical problems.

• Self-directed and capable of independent work.

• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

Highly qualified candidates would meet several of the following preferred qualifications, however, we do not expect any individual to meet all of them:

• Broad knowledge of intelligence community organizations, missions, operations, and processes.

• Experience with multiple skills listed in the Roles and Responsibilities section of this requisition.

• Experience with the Ghidra reverse engineering tool, including scripts and plugins.

• Extensive experience with low level C programming.

• Recent experience/domain expertise working and collaborating closely with IC customers.

• Skills and commitment to building, contributing to, and sustaining high-performance teams, achieving team goals, growing trust, and collaboration.

• Low level kernel/driver development experience.

• Effective in interacting with technical staff, analysts, and operators ranging from junior-level contributors to the most senior leaders in the government.

  This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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