Vulnerability Researcher/ CNO Developer II (Onsite)

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.

About the role

Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. For over four decades, our team has been providing some of the world’s most technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence support services to the U.S. government on its most important missions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze systems to understand how they work and how they behave when they break.
• Develop and defeat new and advanced security techniques.
• Work in small teams with close coordination with customers.
• Write code and take systems apart.
• Study disassembly and write Python to audit C++ code.

Requirements

• TS/SCI Clearance Required
• 2+ years of experience with C or C++
• 3 or more of the following desired skills:
• Understanding of OS Internals (any major OS)
• Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others)
• Experience developing embedded systems
• Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others)
• Experience using exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR
• Experience using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, HexRays, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or objdump
• Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg
• Experience building and using tools to find, exploit, and productize vulnerabilities in complex software systems

Qualifications

• BS/MS in technical discipline or Equivalent work experience

Skills

• Security Clearance Qualified applicants may be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum qualifications for access to classified information.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.

Benefits

Qualified applicants may be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum qualifications for access to classified information. U.S. Citizenship is required.

Pay

Salary range is $100,000 - $150,000 annually.

Schedule

Full-time position.

Contact

To apply, please visit our careers page and submit your resume and cover letter.