Vulnerability Research & Reverse Engineer (Onsite)

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You have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, which provides us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.

Previously part of a leading Fortune 100 company and headquartered in Dulles, VA; Nightwing became independent in 2024 but continues to support the nation’s most mission impactful initiatives.

When we formed Nightwing, we brought a deep set of credentials and an unfaltering commitment to the mission. For over four decades, our team has been providing some of the world’s most technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence support services to the U.S. government on its most important missions.

At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we’ll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

About Cybersecurity, Intelligence and Services

The Cybersecurity, Intelligence and Services (CIS) business delivers full-spectrum cyber, intelligence and forward deployed service solutions to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include Our capabilities include cyber systems defense and managed services; cyber analytics and intelligence services; cyber network operations; vulnerability research; and field deployment and engineering services. CIS brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial spanets.

Benefits

We offer excellent benefits for you and your family: competitive medical, dental and vision plans, child, elderly and dependent-care programs, mental health resources, tuition assistance, employee discount programs, 401k matching, flexible work schedules (depending on program), a peer recognition and reward system and performance-based bonuses.

Position Details

Our team covers the full life cycle from emulation, reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and CNO/CNE tool development.  Our mission covers a wide range of targets, anything from major consumer electronics to proprietary one-off systems. In addition, the position will provide deliverables for real-world use in relatively short turn-around times. 

We seek a qualified engineer that can perform as a team member on activities involved with research, reverse engineering, emulation and tool development of complex classified and unclassified software applications.

Projects will be undertaken in small teams with close coordination with customers to quickly enhance capabilities or resolve issues in existing tools for real-world applications.  Working as part of a team you will also need to be familiar with source management tools such as GIT and team coordination tools like the Atlassian suite of work products.  All candidates must be US citizens and be able to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Required Skills

• 10 years of strong experience with one or more of the following:
• Reverse engineering and vulnerability research on embedded/RTOS systems
• Weaponize exploits against identified 0-day vulnerabilities
• Design/develop/test cyber capabilities that pass US government standards
• Perform analysis against IP network protocols to identify, decode, decrypt and extract relevant data from network traffic
• Perform hardware analysis to identify UART or JTAG interfaces and dump firmware
• Perform file format and network protocol fuzzing and triage and reverse engineer crashes
• Experience with scalable network solutions (CISCO, etc.)
• Languages: Kernel level C/Python, Assembly (x86/64, ARM, PPC, Mips, etc.)
• Hardware/firmware/communications/OS reverse engineering
• Hardware emulation

 Desired Skills

• Oversee technical execution of teams up to 10 multi-disciplined engineers
• Quick reaction cyber capability and effects development
• Cyber operations planning and information analysis
• Typical embedded systems knowledge, including UART, boot-up sequences and updating devices
• Embedded system development and/or hardware debugging using JTAG/gdb
• Discover 0-day vulnerabilities
• Author white papers and proposals

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 

Clearance Required

TS/SCI . Qualified applicants may be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum qualifications for access to classified information.

U.S. Citizenship required.

Relocation Eligible - Relocation assistance available provided final candidate meets eligibility requirements

Employee Referral Award Eligibility:

This requisition is eligible for an employee referral award.  ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the referral award.

The salary range for this role is 96,000 USD - 200,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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