Staff Software Engineer: Vulnerability Research – Reverse Engineering

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Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Staff Software Engineer: Vulnerability Research - Reverse Engineering to join our team in San Antonio, Texas, where you’ll get to lead the development of solutions to national security threats with products that may involve kernel development, reverse engineering or vulnerability research of network and communication systems.

Essential Functions:

• Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs low level software and systems that contain logical solutions.

• Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.

• Determines computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.

• Ensures software standards are met.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS degree in STEM discipline such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Physics, or Electrical Engineering and 14 years of software engineering experience; MS degree with 12 years of experience; PhD with 9 years of experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.

• US Citizenship with active DoD Secret clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret clearance

• Experience in reverse engineering or vulnerability analysis.

• Demonstrated software programming experience in C/C++.

• Familiarity with disassemblers such as IDA Pro, BinaryNinja, or others.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of secure / insecure programming concepts (format string vulnerabilities, heap overflows, etc.).

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Salary Range: $104,700 USD - $157,100 USD

Salary Range 2: $129,800 USD - $194,800 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

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