Poly

Amentum•Savage, MD

11h

About The Position

Amentum is seeking a motivated Principal Software Engineer to support the Advanced Analytics Team mission. The engineer will work closely with mission stakeholders to analyze software requirements, design innovative technical solutions, develop software applications, and implement high-performance capabilities supporting advanced mission objectives.

Requirements

Develop and debug software using object-oriented programming languages.
Perform software engineering and technical design activities.
Analyze and understand legacy code.
Develop efficient algorithms utilizing data structures, dynamic programming, heuristics, and modeling techniques.
Conduct software testing and troubleshooting.
Work at the operating system level, including file I/O, system interfaces, and low-level programming concepts.
Develop advanced tools for binary analysis, shellcode detection, malware analysis, function identification, and reverse engineering of compiled software.
Proficiency with Python, and ability to read/understand C/C++, and Assembly (x86).
Experience with software architecture, operating system design, compilers, and debugging.
Comfortable working with operating system internals, low-level software development, file I/O, system APIs, memory management, and executable program analysis.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with malware analysis, reverse engineering, and protocol analysis.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain software applications supporting mission requirements.
Analyze customer needs, develop software prototypes, engineer technical solutions, implement algorithms, and translate conceptual designs into scalable software architectures.