Technical Director, CNO R&D

Description

The ever-evolving Cyber landscape requires the development of innovative technical solutions to support operational cyber missions through research, engineering, and development.

The Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA) at Leidos is seeking a motivated individual to help architect, design, and lead a dynamic environment with a team of Cyber Engineers in reverse engineering, vulnerability research, prototyping, design, software development, integration, and test tasks to develop capabilities against a variety of technologies and platforms. As we work to reimagine the state of offensive cyber operations tooling and bring innovative technical solutions to bear over the next several years, this role is critical to help set the future direction and will report directly to the CABA CTO.

Responsibilities, but not limited to:
• Expand and manage the technical direction for our internal research and development efforts regarding our offensive strategy for a $15B+ Fortune 250.
• Work with a team of researchers within Leidos across a range of technology areas; identify synergies and collaborations with other Leidos research and development efforts.
• Resolve highly complex problems faced by developing solutions that are innovative, and achieved through research and integration of best practices and leading technologies.

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information systems or applicable engineering field and 15+ years of experience in CNO R&D, computer science, information systems, or network engineering.
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience programming: (e.g Assembly, C, C++, Python)
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience programming offensive cyber tools and/or techniques
• Experience utilizing reverse engineering and debugging tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Windbg, Radare2, Binary Ninja, Immunity Debugger/Ollydbg, gdb, lldb, or others
• Experience analyzing, disassembling, and reverse engineering software binaries and/or hardware
• Experience performing in-depth analysis (dynamic/static) on diverse set of platforms
• Protocol analysis experience with knowledge of TCP/IP and other networking protocols
• Experience performing open source research & vulnerability analysis
• Experience developing documentation and reports (analysis reports, test reports, etc.)
• US Citizen with TS/SCI and Polygraph Clearance

Preferred Qualifications
• Deep understanding of DoD/IC Customers that have authority to conduct cyber operations.
• Experience identifying software vulnerabilities and developing code to demonstrate exploitation
• Experience analyzing, disassembling, and reverse engineering software binaries and/or hardware
• Experience performing in-depth analysis (dynamic/static) on diverse set of based platforms
• Experience using tools to extract and analyze firmware or software
• Demonstrated experience with programming cyber tools and techniques
• Experience analyzing firmware of embedded devices
• Ability to analyze network traffic for vulnerabilities
• Developing for real time operating systems (RTOS) and interesting embedded systems.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver technical findings, briefings, technical presentations, and program documentation to others

Original Posting Date:

2024-10-01
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $148,850.00 - $269,075.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.