Principal Cyber Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Onsite at a customer site in Sterling, Virginia, United States. This position is not relocation eligible.

Salary: $99,000–$206,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides cyber, data operations, systems integration, intelligence mission support, and software modernization services for intelligence, defense, civil, and commercial customers.

What you will do

• Build high-impact native applications for mobile devices.
• Integrate reverse-engineering results into development products.
• Develop and analyze software on the iOS platform.
• Work with end users onsite to gather feedback and meet customer requirements.
• Address complex cyber offense, defense, and intelligence mission challenges.

Requirements

• Current TS/SCI clearance is required.
• At least 5 years of experience with C/C++ on Unix/Linux platforms.
• Experience developing on iOS and with Objective-C.
• Experience with Unix features including named pipes, pipes, pthreads, and signal handlers.
• Familiarity with static decompilers such as Hex-Rays and disassemblers such as Ghidra.
• A degree in a technical discipline.

Nice to have

• iOS kernel-space development and ARM64/ARM32 architecture experience.
• Experience with Core Foundation, virtualization technologies such as Corellium, Docker, Git, and Atlassian products.
• Experience with AI agent task delegation and output evaluation.
• Experience developing proof-of-concept exploit software.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with engineers across vulnerability research, reverse engineering, CNO/CNE development, hardware emulation, systems engineering, and data analytics.
• Mentorship, training, and access to a broad technical portfolio.
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• 401(k) plan, paid time off, holidays, and additional insurance coverage.
• A signing bonus may be available for a sufficiently qualified candidate.