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Senior Cyber Software Engineer

United States, Woburn 134000.00 - 184000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted December 12, 2025
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Job Description

STR is hiring a Senior Cyber Software Engineer who has a passion for developing tools and techniques to enhance the security and resiliency of national defense software systems.

Job Responsibility

  • Apply software engineering principles to develop robust and resilient software solutions for critical national security missions
  • Develop static analysis tools to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in software systems
  • Implement and refine fuzzing techniques to discover potential security weaknesses
  • Conduct thorough security assessments to ensure the integrity and security of operational (or soon-to-be operational) software systems

Requirements

  • Active Secret security clearance
  • U.S. citizenship
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field
  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience
  • Strong background in C/C++
  • Ability to rapidly pick up other languages
  • Experience with static analysis tools and techniques
  • Solid understanding of software engineering principles and practices
  • Ability to develop engineering solutions to first-of-its-kind problems
  • Familiarity with assembly language, operating systems internals (memory/process/thread management), threading, compiler technologies (e.g., GCC, LLVM)
  • Experience with software scripting and build automation tools (e.g. bash, make)
  • Experience with build tools and dependency management (e.g., LLVM+Clang, GNU Make/CMake/pip/Gradle/Cargo)
  • General understanding of reverse engineering fundamentals: memory layout, calling conventions

Nice to have

  • Containerization experience (e.g., Docker/Podman)
  • Proficient in Rust
  • CI/CD DevOps Tool experience (e.g., Github Actions / GitlabCI / Jenkins)
  • Experience with dynamic analysis tools (e.g., PIN / DynamoRio / AFL++) to include development of fuzzing tools

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