Mobile Reverse Engineer

Security Clearance: TS/SCI w/ CI Poly Eligibility

Location: Bethesda MD, On-Site M-F

Job Type: Full-Time

Target Salary Range*: $100,000 - $125,000.

*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

Position Overview:

• Requirements: Mobile Software Reverse Engineering (with support to development and malware analysis efforts).
• Background: Conduct software exploitation against applications, middleware, operating systems (OS) user interface, OS drivers/runtimes, firmware and other binary data:

Key Responsibilities:

• Working experience in software engineering and related technologies. Experience in sizing and scoping, in design, implementation and delivery of mobile application solutions using iOS and/or Android development environments.
• Provide malicious code reverse engineering to isolate, review, analyze, and reverse-engineer potentially malicious programs recovered from compromised computer systems and networks.
• Research new trends, techniques, and packaging of malicious software to stay current and ready to identify and handle zero-day exploits.
• Research behavior of binaries and share detailed understanding of how apps behave at memory/register level in support of technical exploitation operations.
• Support efforts to design, prototype, document, test, conduct exploitation automation and transition code analysis methods and tools specific to technical exploitation operations.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Minimum 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD. Bachelor's or Master's degree should be in one of these fields: Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or Software Engineering.
  
  Experience:
• Experience with Windows, Linux, Android, OS X, and iOS operating system & architecture.
• Experience in computer or cell phone architecture, system internals, operating systems, and/or boot process software engineering.
• Experience with static analysis tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra and Binary Ninja.
• Experience with debugging tools such as WinDbg.
• Experience with virtualization, sandboxing, and emulation tools like VMware, KVM, QEMU and others.
• Working knowledge of programming languages such as C, C++, .NET, Python, Java, etc.
• Debug mobile applications' memory and performance issues.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience requiring a deep knowledge of Android and a strong passion in mobile industry and mobile development.
• Experience developing/designing mobile phone platforms highly desired.
• Experience in wireless API's (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) preferred.
• Engineer software scripts in C, C++, and Java with emphasis on prototyping and API extraction.
• DoD 8570 Compliant, active IAT Level II certification.