Senior Principal Cyber Engineer

About the role

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our 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.

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Solve real-time cyber challenges, working on site with our end users in their spaces.
• Join a team of developers building high impact native applications for mobile devices, with continuous and meaningful feedback from users.
• Integrate reverse engineering results into development products and expand knowledge of the mobile platform to meet development objectives and customer requirements.
• Place of performance: Customer site in Sterling, Virginia.

Technical Requirements

• Current TS/SCI clearance is required.
• Experience developing for Android or another mobile platform.
• At least 10 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) & disassemblers (e.g. Ghidra).
• Experience developing against or working with large open-source projects (e.g. AOSP).

Desired Experience

• 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.
• Familiarity with Atlassian products (Bitbucket, Bamboo, JIRA, etc.).
• Familiarity with version control software such as git.
• Developing proof-of-concept exploit software.

Education Requirements

• Requires a degree in a technical discipline.

Benefits

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.

Pay

Details TBD.

Schedule

Details TBD.