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Position: Mobile Reverse Engineer Location: Bethesda, MD (100% On-site) Duration : 10 + Months Salary Range: $68.00 - $70.00/Hour on W2 (Without Benefits). Applicants must be willing to work on W2. Clearance : Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly eligibility. Job Description: * Mobile Software Reverse Engineering (with support to development and malware analysis efforts). * Conduct software exploitation against applications, middleware, operating systems (OS) user interface, OS drivers/runtimes, firmware and other binary data. * 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. Required Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree and 8+ years' experience, or master's degree and 6+ years' experience, or 3 years with PhD. A degree in one of these fields of study is highly desired: * Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Mathematics, or Software Engineering. However, in lieu of a degree an additional 4 years of relevant experience or specialized training may be considered. * Relevant work experience should be within the past five years. Clearance Requirement: * Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly eligibility. * Proven ability to build, maintain, and leverage collaborative relationships with stakeholders across different government agencies, serving as an effective technical liaison. * Experience establishing and managing formal partnerships between government entities (e.g., via Memoranda of Understanding or Inter-Agency Agreements) to achieve shared mission objectives. * Exceptional communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to present complex technical information clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences, including non-technical decision-makers. * Skilled in facilitating inter-agency working groups and building consensus among partners who may have differing priorities or organizational cultures. * Strategic and proactive mindset with the ability to identify and develop new opportunities for cross-agency collaboration that advance the organization's mission. * A strong sense of mission ownership and personal accountability, focused on elevating the team's role from a participant to a key contributor within the working group. * 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. * Active IAT Level II/8140 certification. * Additional active certifications: CFR, RCCE Level 1, CySA+, GCFA, GCFE.
Job Description
Position: Mobile Reverse Engineer Location: Bethesda, MD (100% On-site) Duration : 10 + Months Salary Range: $68.00 - $70.00/Hour on W2 (Without Benefits). Applicants must be willing to work on W2. Clearance : Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly eligibility. Job Description: * Mobile Software Reverse Engineering (with support to development and malware analysis efforts). * Conduct software exploitation against applications, middleware, operating systems (OS) user interface, OS drivers/runtimes, firmware and other binary data. * 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. Required Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree and 8+ years' experience, or master's degree and 6+ years' experience, or 3 years with PhD. A degree in one of these fields of study is highly desired: * Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Mathematics, or Software Engineering. However, in lieu of a degree an additional 4 years of relevant experience or specialized training may be considered. * Relevant work experience should be within the past five years. Clearance Requirement: * Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly eligibility. * Proven ability to build, maintain, and leverage collaborative relationships with stakeholders across different government agencies, serving as an effective technical liaison. * Experience establishing and managing formal partnerships between government entities (e.g., via Memoranda of Understanding or Inter-Agency Agreements) to achieve shared mission objectives. * Exceptional communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to present complex technical information clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences, including non-technical decision-makers. * Skilled in facilitating inter-agency working groups and building consensus among partners who may have differing priorities or organizational cultures. * Strategic and proactive mindset with the ability to identify and develop new opportunities for cross-agency collaboration that advance the organization's mission. * A strong sense of mission ownership and personal accountability, focused on elevating the team's role from a participant to a key contributor within the working group. * 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. * Active IAT Level II/8140 certification. * Additional active certifications: CFR, RCCE Level 1, CySA+, GCFA, GCFE.