Principal Software Engineer 4 with TS/SCI + Poly
Principal Software Engineer at Aperio Global supporting the Advanced Analytics Team, designing and developing software applications for national security challenges using Python, C/C++, and Assembly. Focus on high-performance capabilities, malware analysis, and reverse engineering.
- Compensation
- $207–$227 / yr
- Location
- Fort Meade, MD
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree plus 11-years of relevant experience or equivalent
- Proficiency with Python
- Ability to read/understand C/C++
- Ability to read/understand Assembly (x86)
- Experience with software architecture
- Experience with operating system design
- Experience with compilers
- Experience with debugging
- Comfortable working with operating system internals
- Comfortable with low-level software development
- Comfortable with file I/O
- Comfortable with system APIs
- Comfortable with memory management
- Comfortable with executable program analysis
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required
Nice to have
- Familiarity with malware analysis
- Familiarity with reverse engineering
- Familiarity with protocol analysis
Full description
Our Mission Statement
At Aperio Global, we bring together experts in cybersecurity, AI, data analytics, and cloud technologies to solve complex national security challenges. We focus on work where our expertise creates the greatest impact.
Our team includes technologists, Intelligence Community veterans, and security professionals who believe the best solutions come from collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence. From cyber operations and AI platforms to cloud-native software and emerging technologies, our work speaks for itself.
Come Solve With Us
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, retirement savings with company match, generous paid time off, and professional development. We invest in our people because great missions require great teams.
Aperio Global is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to support the exciting Advanced Analytics Team mission. Engineer will work closely with mission stakeholders to analyze software requirements, design innovative technical solutions, develop software applications, and implement high-performance capabilities supporting advanced mission objectives.
Mission Focus: Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain software applications supporting mission requirements. Analyze customer needs, develop software prototypes, engineer technical solutions, implement algorithms, and translate conceptual designs into scalable software architectures.
Technical Proficiency: Develop and debug software using object-oriented programming languages; perform software engineering and technical design activities; analyze and understand legacy code; develop efficient algorithms utilizing data structures, dynamic programming, heuristics, and modeling techniques; conduct software testing and troubleshooting; work at the operating system level, including file I/O, system interfaces, and low-level programming concepts; and develop advanced tools for binary analysis, shellcode detection, malware analysis, function identification, and reverse engineering of compiled software.
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree plus 11-years of relevant experience or equivalent. Proficiency with Python, and ability to read/understand C/C++, and Assembly (x86). Experience with software architecture, operating system design, compilers, and debugging. Comfortable working with operating system internals, low-level software development, file I/O, system APIs, memory management, and executable program analysis.
Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.Nice to Have:
Familiarity with malware analysis, reverse engineering, and protocol analysis.