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Principal Cyber Engineer

Nightwing · Sterling, VA · 4 wk ago
Engineering$99k–$206k/yrFull-time
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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invention, no summarizing away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove duplicated EEO lines. Also remove "Nightwing provides technically advanced..." maybe that's about company overview; could be part of About the role? The posting includes description of Nightwing and CODEX overview. We need to decide sections. We have content: - Intro: Nightwing provides ... Principal Cyber Engineer Cyber Offense and Defense Experts (CODEX) is seeking a cyber engineer to join our team to solve crucial cyber challenges, working on site with our end users in their spaces. Applicants will join a team of highly-skilled developers building high-impact native applications for mobile devices, with continuous and meaningful feedback from users. Applicants are expected to integrate reverse engineering results into development products and expand their knowledge of the mobile platform to meet development objectives and customer requirements. The place of performance for this work is at a customer site in Sterling, Virginia. - CODEX Overview: description. - Technical Requirements: list. - Desired Experience: list. - Education Requirements: Requires a degree in a technical discipline. - Security Clearance: Current TS/SCI clearance is required (duplicate earlier). Also note: This position is not relocation eligible, but a signing bonus may be an option for the sufficiently qualified candidate. ERIP Eligibility - This requisition is eligible for an employee referral award. ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the referral award. #CODEX - Then: At Nightwing, we value collaboration... (teamwork statement) - Then: Salary & Benefits: salary range $99,000-$206,000 commensurate... Nightwing offers medical, vision and dental insurance coverage in addition to a 401k plan, PTO, Holidays, and additional insurances. - Then repeated EEO line (remove). We need to map to sections: About the role: could include intro description of role, location, team, etc. Responsibilities: maybe from "Applicants will join a team... building high-impact native applications for mobile devices... integrate reverse engineering results..." etc. Requirements: technical requirements list. Qualifications: education requirement? Or maybe combine education and clearance. Skills: desired experience list? Or maybe skills = technical requirements? But we need to avoid duplication. We can decide: - About the role: overview of Nightwing, CODEX, role purpose, location. - Responsibilities: what the engineer will do: join team, build high-impact native apps for mobile devices, integrate reverse engineering results, expand knowledge, work on site with end users, etc. - Requirements: Technical Requirements list (TS/SCI clearance, Android dev, 5+ years Cyber Tool Development C/C++ Unix/Linux Make/CMake, familiarity with static decompilers/disassemblers, experience with large open-source projects like AOSP). - Qualifications: Education Requirements (degree in technical discipline). Also maybe security clearance? But clearance already in Requirements; we could keep it there. - Skills: Desired Experience list (team/task leadership, understanding of CNE techniques on Android/Linux, ARM64/ARM32 architecture, AI agent task delegation, Atlassian products, version control git, reverse engineering ARM binaries, developing proof-of-concept exploit software). - Benefits: medical, vision, dental insurance, 401k, PTO, Holidays, additional insurances. - Pay: salary range $99,000-$206,000 commensurate with qualifications. - Schedule: not mentioned; we should not create Schedule section because no specific content. So omit. Also we may include a short paragraph for metadata like location? Could be in About the role. We must not include duplicated EEO lines. Also remove "Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer..." lines. Also remove "ERIP Eligibility..." maybe that's not a standard section; could be part of About the role or maybe we could include as a note but not as heading. Since it's not a standard heading, we can fold into a short

under About the role or maybe under Responsibilities? Probably better to include under About the role as a note: "This position is not relocation eligible, but a signing bonus may be an option... ERIP Eligibility..." but we need to preserve all substantive info. So we should include that info somewhere. We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact phrasing? Not necessarily exact, but preserve all substantive information. We can rephrase but must not lose detail. Safer to keep the sentences as is, maybe split into list items. We need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences. Let's craft:

About the role

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services. The Principal Cyber Engineer Cyber Offense and Defense Experts (CODEX) division seeks a cyber engineer to join the team to solve crucial cyber challenges, working on site with end users at a customer site in Sterling, Virginia. The role involves joining a team of highly-skilled developers building high-impact native applications for mobile devices, integrating reverse engineering results into development products, and expanding knowledge of the mobile platform to meet development objectives and customer requirements. This position is not relocation eligible, but a signing bonus may be an option for sufficiently qualified candidates. The requisition is eligible for an employee referral award (ERIP), subject to meeting all eligibility requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Join a team of highly-skilled developers building high-impact native applications for mobile devices.
  • Receive continuous and meaningful feedback from users.
  • Integrate reverse engineering results into development products.
  • Expand knowledge of the mobile platform to meet development objectives and customer requirements.
  • Work on site with end users in their spaces to solve crucial cyber challenges.

Requirements

  • Current TS/SCI clearance required.
  • Experience developing for Android or another mobile platform.
  • At least 5 years of experience in Cyber Tool Development with C/C++ on Unix/Linux platforms using Make/CMake build systems.
  • Familiarity with static decompilers (e.g., HexRays) and disassemblers (e.g., Ghidra).
  • Experience developing against or working with large open-source projects (e.g., AOSP).

Qualifications

  • Requires a degree in a technical discipline.

Skills

  • Team or task leadership experience.
  • Understanding of CNE techniques and methodologies on Android and Linux.
  • Experience with the ARM64/ARM32 architecture or other similar platform.
  • Experience with AI agent task delegation and output evaluation.
  • 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.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
  • 401k plan.
  • Paid time off (PTO) and holidays.
  • Additional insurances.

Pay

The salary associated with this position is $99,000–$206,000, commensurate with the selected candidate’s qualifications, years of relevant experience, and demonstrated level of expertise.

We omitted Schedule as no info. Check for any duplicated content: we included TS/SCI clearance in Requirements only, not duplicated elsewhere. We kept the note about relocation and signing bonus in About the role. We kept ERIP eligibility note. We removed all EEO lines. We removed duplicated Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity... lines. We preserved all substantive info: company overview, role description, location, responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, skills, benefits, pay. We also kept the note about not relocation eligible, signing bonus, ERIP. Check if any info missing: The original also mentions "Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets." That's part of company overview; we included a brief overview but maybe omitted that sentence. We should preserve that. Let's add to About the role: "Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets." Also "Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization." Might be relevant. We should include that as part of About the role. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot omit those. So we need to incorporate them. Let's adjust About the role paragraph to include those details. We can make a couple of sentences. Also "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 offers 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!" This is also substantive; we could incorporate into About the role or maybe a separate section like "About the team". But we only have predefined headings; we could put under About the role as well. We must not create new headings not in list. So we can include all that in About the role. Thus About the role will be a bit longer, maybe multiple paragraphs. We must not repeat job title as heading. Let's craft About the role with multiple

paragraphs. We'll include: - Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services. Their capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. - Principal Cyber Engineer Cyber Offense and Defense Experts (CODEX) is seeking a cyber engineer to join our team to solve crucial cyber challenges, working on site with our end users in their spaces. Applicants will join a team of highly-skilled developers building high-impact native applications for mobile devices, with continuous and meaningful feedback from users. Applicants are expected to integrate reverse engineering results into development products and expand their knowledge of the mobile platform to meet development objectives and customer requirements. The place of performance for this work is at a customer site in Sterling, Virginia. - CODEX Overview: 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

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