Junior Software Engineer Jobs

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Position Overview

QinetiQ US Systems has an immediate opening for a Junior Software Engineer-supporting our Government Client in Charlottesville, VA

Responsibilities

Work as part of a diverse contract team supporting a DoD client. Apply expertise to perform in-depth technical evaluations of foreign computer and network technologies through the analysis and identification of software capabilities and vulnerabilities of specified non-US warfighting subsystems, using software program code disassembly and reverse engineering. Author concise Scientific and Technical Intelligence (S&TI) assessments in conformance with the intelligence community (IC) analytic standards that convey the results of that analysis to the client's DoD and IC partners and clients. Apply working knowledge of the cyber-kill chain and offensive techniques to identify and describe potential cybersecurity issues. Provide technical intelligence analysis of weapon systems and C4 networks, including analyzing printed circuit boards, hardware devices, including microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSP) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) design, extraction of firmware, and analysis of software and firmware to understand the capabilities and performance of the system based on software analysis.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with software design and development
• Experience with performing in-depth technical evaluations of foreign computer and network technologies.
• Current TS/SCI Clearance#AvantusClearedJob
• Successful Completion of Pre-Employment Background Investigation required
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Experience with one or more programming languages, including C++

Preferred Qualifications

• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 6+ years of experience with conducting all-source S&TI research analysis and engineering.
• Experience with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) design or modeling and analysis of Software Defined Radios (SDRs)
• Knowledge of military systems and computer network technologies, designs, and programs
• Experience in programming associated with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
• 2+ years of experience with software and firmware code assembly, disassembly, and reverse engineering and software de-buggers and diagnostic tools, including IDA Pro, OllyDbg, Kali Linux, and Metasploit

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