Principal Software Engineer 4 with TS/SCI + Poly

Aperio Global•Fort Meade, MD

8d•$207,000 - $227,000

About The Position

Aperio Global is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to support the exciting 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. We believe the highest-impact work in national security and technology is a team sport. At Aperio Global, we operate as a single, cohesive force aligned on a handful of mission-critical efforts where our work truly moves the needle. We don't chase small wins. We solve for next. We view the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data analytics as an empirical discipline as rigorous and consequential as any field in science or engineering. That means we bring intellectual honesty, accountability, and transparency to every problem we take on. Our team includes tech innovators, Intelligence Community veterans, and security professionals who know that the best solutions come from diverse minds working toward a common mission. We value our people, those working quietly behind the behind the scenes, doing the hard work that keeps our nation secure. From full-spectrum cyber operations and de-biased AI platforms to quantum networking and cloud-native software systems, our work speaks for itself.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree plus 11-years of relevant experience or equivalent.
Proficiency with Python.
Ability to read/understand C/C++.
Ability to read/understand Assembly (x86).
Experience with software architecture.
Experience with operating system design.
Experience with compilers.
Experience with debugging.
Comfortable working with operating system internals.
Comfortable working with low-level software development.
Comfortable working with file I/O.
Comfortable working with system APIs.
Comfortable working with memory management.
Comfortable working with executable program analysis.
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with malware analysis.
Familiarity with reverse engineering.
Familiarity with 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.
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.