Senior CNO Developer (Wireless Systems)

Location: Full-time, in-office position in Arlington, Virginia, United States

Salary: $143,763–$215,644 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops products and cyber capabilities for complex national security and telecommunications challenges.

What you will do

• Design and develop custom software tools targeting embedded and telecommunications systems.
• Develop proofs of concept from discovered vulnerabilities and transition them into robust, maintainable codebases using DevOps practices.
• Analyze firmware, operating system internals, software protections, binaries, and wireless protocols to identify exploitable security flaws.
• Conduct reverse engineering and vulnerability research on Linux-based and embedded systems.
• Develop capabilities leveraging novel telecommunications access mechanisms and collaborate with developers, vulnerability researchers, hardware engineers, and mission stakeholders.
• Extend custom tools for software and firmware binary analysis and manipulation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of experience designing or prototyping applications with agile software development processes.
• At least 2 years of experience with Python, C, or C++, operating system internals, network socket programming, and packet-level understanding of IP and TCP protocols.
• At least 2 years of experience reverse engineering x86/ARM binaries or embedded systems and tracing code execution with WinDbg, GDB, or an equivalent debugger.
• Expertise in at least one area such as firmware analysis, fuzzing and exploit development, wireless protocol analysis with Wireshark, file system forensics, fault injection, Binary Ninja, or Ghidra.
• Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI access is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with vulnerability analysis, memory protection mechanisms, memory management, CI/CD pipelines, virtualized test ranges, or firmware and driver development.
• Experience with telecommunications systems, protocol analysis, access mechanisms, infrastructure components, or 5G.
• Graduate degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Close collaboration in a small, highly motivated communications systems team.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life and disability insurance and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave, tuition assistance, and professional development support.
• Fast-paced work focused on mission-ready cyber capabilities and complex technical challenges.