Sr Principal Cyber Software Test Engineer

Description

The company develops new capabilities for military and intelligence customers around the world from its Cincinnati, Ohio site, which is part of the Mission Systems sector.

The site runs with a small business feel inside a large corporation, so you get close ties with colleagues along with the resources of a bigger company.

Your team tackles hard problems with important outcomes and shares expertise across the group.

This role suits a cleared senior principal engineer who is self-motivated and energetic, with a background in computer engineering, computer science or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Test software built to counter national security threats, including products involving kernel development, reverse engineering or vulnerability research on network and communication systems.
• Apply solid software development and test skills, including scripting.
• Help define system requirements.
• Check that software meets system requirements through manual testing and automated scripts.
• Write software test plans, test procedures and automated test scripts.
• Plus: knowledge of computer networking, modern development environments, embedded programming, automated testing tools and software configuration management tools.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering plus 8 years of relevant work experience, or a master's degree in the same fields plus 6 years, or a PhD in the same fields plus 3 years.
• Program and automate in Python, and use debugging or system analysis tools such as Wireshark, IDAPro, OllyDebug, WinDBG or JTAG debuggers.
• Work with system requirements and help run systems requirements reviews.
• Write test plans, test procedures and final software assessments.
• Have led technical teams of 2 to 8 engineers as a technical lead.
• Preferred: hold an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Preferred: hold an advanced degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
• Preferred: have built software in any of these areas: kernel mode, embedded, command and control, web applications or network applications.
• Preferred: have experience with the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Preferred: be familiar with assembly languages such as x86, x64, MIPS, PPC or ARM.
• Preferred: have done vulnerability research on one or more operating systems such as Android, iOS, Windows or Linux.
• Preferred: have experience with emulation tools such as Renode or QEMU.
• Preferred: have reverse engineered compiled binaries with industry-standard tools such as Ghidra or IDA Pro.
• Preferred: have OS internals experience.
• Preferred: have developed lower-level networking protocols such as TCP/IP and UDP.
• Preferred: understand return-oriented programming (ROP) concepts and how they execute.
• Preferred: can develop and implement shellcode.
• Preferred: understand secure and insecure programming concepts, such as format string vulnerabilities and heap overflows.
• Preferred: know modern source control platforms such as Git, GitHub or GitLab, and CI/CD workflows using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Preferred: have Agile methodology experience.

Conditions

Work full-time onsite in Cincinnati, OH.

Travel about 10% of the time.

US citizenship is required.

An active Secret clearance or higher is required, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.

A clearance is required before the start date.

Relocation assistance may be available.

The primary level base salary range is $142,200.00 - $213,200.00. This is a general guide. Final base pay depends on the scope of the role, your experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

The application window is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, but it may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and let you share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for long-term incentives.
• Health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, and a savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and personal business.