Located in Howard County, Maryland, Nteligen engineers solutions to the challenges of information movement. We perform proactive cyber threat mitigation in everything we do. Nteligen is not afraid to solve challenging problems and is known to take on a wide breadth of different types of work, including software engineering, technical research, product assessment, security assessment, and cyber consulting.
Our team comprises software, systems, and policy researchers looking to change how the industry thinks about critical systems' security. We are not satisfied with preventing bad cyber actors; we want to eliminate their ability to overtake a system. We work with industry and government stakeholders to ensure our decisions raise the bar for all future solutions. We encourage our engineers to own their solutions and do the challenging work to solve problems that make a difference.
The qualifications for the Software Engineer position include knowledge of engineering principles, including research and engineering assignments, experience in developing technical guidance and policy, writing technical white papers, and prototyping solutions. In addition, Nteligen is looking for engineers with bachelor's degrees in engineering, science, or systems management disciplines, except where work experience may be substituted for a formal college degree in certain circumstances.
General Position Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in programs within the federal government
- B.S. (or higher) in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related field (5 years of work experience in the areas above may be substituted for a B.S. degree when allowable by certain clients)
- Experience developing software systems that operate on Enterprise Linux or comparable operating systems
- Experience in performing the full software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Experience writing object-oriented code such as C++, Java, or Python
- Ability to communicate technical concepts in written form
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
Additional Requirements
- Must hold an active security clearance
Preferred Skills (but Not Required)
- Experience in Cross Domain Solutions
- Experience in any of the following technologies:
- Familiar with memory safe coding languages, such as Go or Rust
- C software development
- FPGA software development
- Mandatory Access Control policy, ie. SELinux
- gRPC
- Protobuf
- Linux Internals
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies, ie. Packer, Ansible, & Terraform
- MS Azure or other cloud platform development
- Experience developing software in a memory safe language such as Go or Rust
- Problem-solving skills, including working with customers to determine their needs
- Experience with penetration testing
- Experience developing secure software systems
- Familiar with the MITRE ATT&CK, CWE, and CAPEC frameworks