Staff Cyber Software Engineer (senior level)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Join Northrop Grumman – Cincinnati (aka Xetron), part of Mission Systems sector, focused on the development of new capabilities for our military and intelligence customers around the globe. Our Northrop Grumman Cincinnati, Ohio small business culture operates collaboratively within a larger corporation providing the benefits of both.  This unique relationship offers employees the ability to know everyone at the site while working on technologies and products that are beyond state-of-the-art. You and your team will wrestle with the next big problems in an atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation, sharing your expertise while learning from the expert next to you. Remember when you were excited about getting to work because the challenge of the problem, the importance of the solution and the fun you had with your team?  It's that kind of place!  But don’t take my word for it.  See for yourself!  See why we receive comments on our YouTube Videos like “This company is insanely advanced” and “Wow. This is mind blowing.”  See some of our recent Awards and Recognition and read about some of the reasons to live in Cincinnati.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a senior level Vulnerability Research Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals at our Cincinnati, Ohio location. The NGMS Cincinnati team solves complex problems developing cyber hardware and software solutions with learning opportunities in offensive cyber operations (OCO).

Essential Functions:

• Research vulnerabilities and perform reverse engineering on embedded systems.

• Plan and Conduct vulnerability analysis on user and kernel mode drivers and interfaces.

• Develop, design, and implement proof of concepts on based research findings and documents.

• Provide technical direction, guidance, and mentoring of project team members

• Execute strategic problem solving

Basic Qualification:

• BS degree in STEM such as Math, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering and 12 years of software engineering experience; or MS degree in STEM such as Math, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering and 10 years of software engineering experience; or Ph.D.in STEM such as Math, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering and 7 years of experience. Note: Can use years 4 years of software engineering experience in lieu of a degree.

• Active Top-Secret clearance.

• Experience with a disassembler for vulnerability research (IDA Pro, Ghidra, BinaryNinja, radare2, etc.).

• Experience programming in C or C++.

• Experience leading technical teams

• US Citizenship is required

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience with one or more assembly languages (x86, x64, ARM, MIPS, etc.).

• Development of disassembler extensions for tools such as IDA pro or Ghidra.

• Low level debug tools such as gdb, WinDbg, or OllyDbg.

• Experience with fuzzing research techniques (AFL++, taint analysis, PIN, Dynamic Memory Instrumentation, etc.).

• Experience with vulnerability research on one or more operating systems (Android, IOS, Windows, Linux, e