Principal Cyber Engineer

NightwingGreenville, SC
Onsite

About The Position

Nightwing's CODEX (Cyber Offense and Defense Experts) division brings together an elite team of mission-focused industry experts who are well known for their ability to overcome the most advanced technical challenges. The team comprises engineers of multiple disciplines including vulnerability research, reverse engineering, CNO/CNE development, hardware emulation, system engineering, and data analytics. Our engineers do more than just work with cutting-edge technology—they ensure missions succeed for our customers. CODEX offices span the nation and offer its engineers the ability to advance their careers through mentorship, training, and an expansive technical portfolio that covers every side of cyber. If you want to be part of a collaborative team that supports challenging, meaningful work that is vital to our national security, apply today! Cyber Offense and Defense Experts (CODEX) is seeking a cyber engineer to join our team to solve real-time cyber challenges, working on site with our end users in their spaces. Applicants will join a team of developers building high impact applications for Cyber Networking Operations, with continuous and meaningful feedback from users. Applicants are expected to integrate reverse engineering results into development products and expand their knowledge of the target platforms to meet development objectives and customer requirements. The place of performance for this work is at a Nightwing site in Greenville, South Carolina.

Requirements

  • Ability to obtain TS clearance is required
  • Experience developing embedded applications
  • Experience developing and debugging Windows or Linux kernel drivers
  • At least 8 years of experience with C/C++ on Unix/Linux platforms using Make/CMake build systems
  • Familiarity with static decompilers (e.g HexRays) & disassemblers (e.g. Ghidra)
  • Experience developing against or working with large open-source projects (e.g. AOSP, Linux Kernel, OpenWRT, etc)

Nice To Haves

  • Team or task leadership experience
  • Understanding of CNE techniques and methodologies on embedded and Linux platforms
  • Experience with the ARM64/ARM32 Architecture or other similar platform
  • Familiarity with Atlassian products (Bitbucket, Bamboo, JIRA, etc.)
  • Familiarity with version control software such as git
  • Reverse engineering ARM binaries
  • Developing proof-of-concept exploit software

Responsibilities

  • Solve real-time cyber challenges, working on site with our end users in their spaces.
  • Join a team of developers building high impact applications for Cyber Networking Operations, with continuous and meaningful feedback from users.
  • Integrate reverse engineering results into development products.
  • Expand knowledge of the target platforms to meet development objectives and customer requirements.

Benefits

  • signing bonus may be an option for the sufficiently qualified candidate
  • employee referral award
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