Cyber Reverse Engineer

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Department Summary:

MITRE's Intel Center has a number of departments who support domain-specific work across a variety of our sponsors' missions through the application of reverse engineering. The work programs deliver reverse engineering as well as related activates (such as cyber capabilities) for sponsors in partnership with other organizations across MITRE National Security (MNS) and MITRE Labs organizations. Our focus is on applying advanced reverse engineering and capability research to maintain and enhance the impact of our sponsors on their core missions. Our staff maintain deep expertise in the relevant complex systems involved, while continuing to grow awareness of new technologies and techniques as the field of cyber and technology evolve. We lead the development and implementation of advanced capabilities that are critical to meeting national security objectives, using a variety of approaches and techniques in the areas of Reverse Engineering and Low-Level Binary Analysis, Cross-Architecture System Analysis, Operating Systems Security, Network Systems and Protocol Analysis, Embedded Systems (such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Cellular Devices) and more.

Job Description:

The Intel Center is looking for a Cyber Reverse Engineer to join our team. In this role you will use and gain experience with some of the following areas:

• Multi-architecture Reverse-engineering
• Analysis of Network Systems and Protocols
• Assembly Languages (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.)
• Reverse Engineering and Debugging Tools (e.g., Ghidra, IDA Pro, Emulators)
• Operating System Internals/Driver development
• Computer Networking & Security
• Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis
• Developing C and Python software or capabilities

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance
• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related engineering discipline
• High level desire to help their nation solve its most critical challenges
• Ability to work with others to solve challenging technical problems
• Experience with Reverse Engineering and Debugging Tools (Ghidra, IDA Pro, Emulators, etc.)
• Experience with Assembly Languages (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.)
• Experience reverse engineering compiled binaries
• Experience programming in C and Python

Preferred Qualifications:

• Full Scope Polygraph clearance
• Experience with various IDEs (MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.) and collaboration tools
• Experience extending Ghidra functionality via Java and Python
• Experience with Linux and Linux command line tools
• Experience with software development principles, tools, and techniques
• Experience with software development with higher and lower-level languages
• Advanced experience with three or more of the basic qualifications

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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