Date Posted: 2024-08-22
Country: United States of America
Location: MD233: 420 National Business Parkway Suite 400, Annapolis Junction, MD, 20701 USA
Position Role Type: Onsite
You have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, providing us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.
Job Summary
Senior CNO Reverse Engineers (CRE3) at Nightwing perform reverse engineering of hardware components, software applications, and operating systems to determine functionality, code structure, and circuit design for use in the design and development of software tools. Reverse engineers are expected to document and deliver reports, proofs-of-concept code demonstrating their findings, and hands-on demonstrations. All our engineers write code, but many of our engineers spend as much time taking systems apart as building new ones. A typical day can involve studying disassembly or writing Python to audit a piece of C++ code. You will be expected to lead and mentor junior reverse engineers.
Role Type: This position is an onsite role.
Basic Qualifications
- Extensive Experience with C or C++, Python, and Assembly
- Extensive use of Reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja
- Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in the field of computer science, information systems, or network engineering and ten (10) years' experience to include 5 (five) years' experience with reverse engineering
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance is required prior to start date.
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Desired Skills: 3 or more of the following desired skills
- Understanding of OS Internals (i.e. Windows, Linux, Android)
- Experience with Vulnerability Research
- 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).
- Understanding of exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR
- Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg
- Experience with BDI/JTAG
- Experience with modern C++ development, such as RAII, C++11 and C++14.
- Experience building and using tools to find, exploit, and productize vulnerabilities in complex software systems
- Experience with technical leadership
What We Offer:
Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
Previously part of a leading Fortune 100 company and headquartered in Dulles, VA; Nightwing became independent in 2024 but continues to support the nation’s most mission impactful initiatives.
At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we’ll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.
Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team.
The salary range for this role is 130,000 USD - 272,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.
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RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
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