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Engineer/Developer - Software, Hardware, Research (Capabilities Development Specialist)

National Security Agency

$86,498 - $195,200
Oct 5, 2025
Fort Meade, MD, US
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The National Security Agency (NSA) is seeking to develop new capabilities, design new approaches, solve complex problems, and research new solutions to propel its mission of protecting national security interests by acquiring critical information for national decision makers.

Requirements

  • Strong software development skills (C, C++, Assembly, ARM)
  • Software RE/interactive debugging tools (e.g., Ghidra, OllyDbg, gdb)
  • Software application vulnerability analysis and exploitation
  • Operating system internals
  • Mobile platform development and analysis
  • algorithmic analysis
  • prototyping

Responsibilities

  • develop custom high-priority offensive and defensive capabilities targeting the hardest-to-reach adversarial networks in the world
  • conduct innovative research and produce hardware and software tools unlike anything in the world
  • apply and grow your expertise to create new ways to get critical information to our national decision makers
  • develop tomorrow's technologies and tools today
  • Developing exploitation capabilities and analytics to enable foreign target network collection
  • Designing hardware components and systems to further signals intelligence missions
  • Analyzing sophisticated malware

Other

  • U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants.
  • Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a security background investigation and polygraph.
  • Must fully populate all sections of the resume tool with all relevant skills, experience, and education.
  • Attach a copy of your transcripts from all schools attended.
  • The qualifications listed are the minimum acceptable to be considered for the position.