Job Title: Staff Cyber Software Engineer
Location: Northridge, CA Roles and responsibilities: A successful candidate will have the qualities and essential functional expertise to:
• Support analysis, development, implementation, and security assessments to ensure compliance with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-53, CNSSI 1253, and DoD RMF Knowledge Service guidance.
• Support identification of Anti-Tamper Critical Program Information (CPI) and writing of Anti-Tamper Plans to ensure compliance with DoD AT TIG, DoD AT Guidelines, DoD 5200.39 CPI Identification Procedure, and other DoD AT related policies.
• Assist in defining system architectures resistant to tampering and cyber-attacks.
• Develop technical documentation/publication to document trade studies, system designs, analysis, and results related to systems security.
• Support Anti-Tamper/Cybersecurity Integration & Test and executing verification & validation requirements.
• Utilize reverse engineering to architect and validate AT solutions.
• Maintain technical knowledge by reviewing publications and participating in communities of practice to further domain knowledge.
• Support security assessments and continuous monitoring.
• Ensure secure software architectures and applications.
• Develop standard and improvement processes for assessing, designing, implementing, and verifying security requirements.
• Interface with inter-organizational management to communicate technical briefings and program status. The selected candidate for this position is required to be on-site in Northridge, CA. Basic qualifications for a Staff Cyber Software Engineer level (T05): • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM related field with 14 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering experience, or master’s with 12 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering, or PhD with 9 years Computer Engineering or Software Engineering experience.
• Experience with one or more Software languages/technologies: C/C , Java, Python, C#.
• Minimum two years of cumulative experience in: cybersecurity/anti-tamper requirements development, security and cyber threat analysis, security systems engineering, cyber systems architecture development or cybersecurity policy development.
• Must have demonstrated experience in solving technical problems independently with minimal supervision.
• *U.S. Citizenship and active secret DoD clearance is required with the ability to obtain higher Special Access Program (SAP) clearance. Preferred Qualifications:
• Advanced degree in STEM.
• Experience working in the defense industry or weapons systems.
• Experience with software version control tools such as Git.
• Experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking real-time operating systems.
• Experience using Atlassian Tool Suite: JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, SonarQube.
• Experience with embedded software such as VxWorks.
• Experience with DevSecOps.
• FPGA Experience (Xilinx).
• Cryptography and Key Management experience.
• Experience with Reverse Engineering, Hardware Design, Embedded Software or Cryptography.
• Technical problem solving, to include decomposition, root cause analysis, solution development, implementation, and monitoring.
• Experience contributing to and/or making technical presentations.