Application Developer III

Salary Range

$190,000 - $247,000/year

Duties

As a successful candidate for the Application Developer III role, you will act as a reverse engineer/general-purpose CNO software engineer for up-and-coming projects where you will design, develop, prototype, modify, and integrate solutions to provide mission-centric results. You will work closely with analysts, operators, data scientists, and other software engineers to provide mission tactical support. This fast-paced and dynamic environment demands a flexible, highly motivated engineer with a strong desire to learn new skills and tackle evolving challenges that are critical to national security.

Required Skills

Skills

• Augment existing toolsets
• Derive, document, and analyze requirements
• Build prototypes to demonstrate understanding of mission requirements
• Produce end toolsets that can operate within mission constraints
• Be able to work with customer leadership to build relationships to help enable and improve mission success

Qualifications

A Bachelor of Computer Science or Computer Engineering and a minimum of Twelve (12) years of software/system development is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree. A Master's of Computer Science or Computer Engineering with a minimum of Ten (10) years of experience is also acceptable. Experience must consist of technical expertise in at least three (3) of the following areas:

• System Requirements Analysis
• Software System Design
• Software System Development
• Software System Integration
• Software System Testing

In addition, the individual shall have at least ten (10) years of work experience in four (4) or more of the following areas:

• Developing software applications in C, C++, or Java
• Developing software applications for Unix, Linux, or Windows environments
• Developing DLLs for the Windows environment
• Development on computer telephony platforms using cards such as Dialogic
• Object-oriented design and programming
• Working knowledge of common protocols/standards such as TCP/IP, SNMP, H.323, X.25, 802.1I, 802.16, SIP, MEGACO, or MGCP
• Web development with XML, PHP, MySQL, ColdFusion, or Apache
• Script writing using Perl, Python, Bourne shell, C shell, or other proprietary scripting languages
• Database experience with Sybase, Oracle, or Microsoft (SQL Server)
• Reverse engineering and analysis of software
• Kernel knowledge of Unix (Linux)
• Bit-level data analysis

Additionally, the candidate must be/have:

• Experience with developing CNO-specific software in Linux/Windows/Embedded applications.
• Experience with Reverse Engineering, especially with Ghidra
• Produce and modify software systems in C/C++/Python.
• Provide support for fielded software systems.
• Familiarity with Git and Subversion.
• Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence).
• Be willing to learn new technologies and systems to meet mission objectives

Desired Skills

• Experience with Go and Rust
• Experience with Vulnerability Research and Exploit development
• Knowledge of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems
• Experience with production CNO capabilities, CNO release process, and operations