[Remote] Cyber Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leidos is seeking a motivated Cyber Software Engineer with strong foundations in offensive cyber and low-level engineering. The role involves contributing to the design, development, and prototyping of advanced cyber capabilities targeting modern computing environments and embedded systems.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to offensive cyber research initiatives, including vulnerability exploration, capability prototyping, and analysis of modern and embedded systems
- Develop and maintain offensive security tools, red-team automation frameworks, and mission-oriented software components
- Support reverse engineering tasks across binaries, firmware, and hardware-adjacent systems to understand behavior, identify weaknesses, and inform capability development
- Assist in designing and evaluating evasion-resistant payloads, covert communication mechanisms, and persistence techniques for realistic adversary simulation
- Prototype automation and AI-driven approaches for reconnaissance, decision-making, and red-team workflow acceleration
- Analyze adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to support realistic threat emulation and capability design
- Collaborate with other engineers, hardware researchers, and mission teams to integrate software, embedded, and AI-driven components into cohesive research prototypes
- Document research findings, prototype behavior, and operational concepts for technical and operational audiences
- Participate in internal red-team exercises, capability evaluations, and iterative testing cycles to refine tools and methodologies
- Stay current with emerging offensive techniques, hardware-assisted attack vectors, and adversarial AI research trends
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field. Degree must be completed by start date
- Strong programming experience in C/C++ and Python, with demonstrated ability to build offensive tooling or low‑level software
- Experience with reverse engineering fundamentals, including firmware analysis, hardware interfaces, or binary inspection
- Hands‑on experience with red‑team operations, penetration testing, or adversary simulation
- Familiarity with embedded systems, microcontrollers, or FPGA‑based development
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, security vulnerabilities, and common attack techniques
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly in both written and verbal formats
- Demonstrated initiative through research projects, open‑source contributions, or published work
- US citizenship is required
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph clearance
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph
- Experience developing or modifying offensive security tools
- Familiarity with EDR evasion concepts, covert communications, or payload staging
- Experience with hardware security research, side‑channel analysis, or hardware Trojan detection
- Background in AI/ML applied to cybersecurity (e.g., neural architecture search, AI‑assisted detection, agentic tooling)
- Exposure to reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or IDA Pro
- Experience with embedded debugging interfaces (JTAG, UART, SPI) or firmware modification
- Contributions to security research communities, publications, or open‑source offensive tooling
- Familiarity with cloud environments, containerization, or DevOps workflows
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