• Software Reverse Engineer

    Leidos (Bethesda, MD)


    Description

    Are you ready to join the Leidos all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos accelerate your career path.

     

    Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Your job will be to conduct Mobile Software Reverse Engineering (with support to development and malware analysis efforts).

     

    While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in **Bethesda, MD** , we offer a flexible schedule and, some unclassified development tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

     

    As a valued member of the team, you bring deep expertise in software engineering and exploitation against applications, middleware, operating systems (OS) user interface, OS drivers/runtimes, firmware and other binary data. You will work closely with other software engineers, data scientists, and system engineers on the following key tasks:

     

    + 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.

    You demonstrate clear devotion to the software engineering best practices and meet the following qualifications (required):

    + Bachelor’s Degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

    + 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.

    + Experience debugging mobile application memory and performance issues.

    + Experience with Agile practices.

    + **Must possess TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.**

    You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

    + An active TS/SCI with current Polygraph clearance.

    + 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, IAT Level II.

    Original Posting:

    February 7, 2025

    For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

    Pay Range:

    Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

     

    The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

    REQNUMBER: R-00153069

    All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.