Research Innovations
CNO Developer II
San Antonio, TX +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- San Antonio, TX
Melbourne, FL
About the job
Develops and maintains offensive cyber capabilities for defense and homeland security customers, including software for constrained environments and binary reverse engineering.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and debug custom CNO capabilities across userland, kernel, and network layers; modernize legacy tools.
- Develop software for Windows, Linux/Unix, embedded, mobile, and network devices, and perform binary analysis and reverse engineering.
- Maintain reproducible build systems, toolchains, and test harnesses; travel as determined by the customer.
What they ask for
- Active US Top Secret security clearance and ability to upgrade to TS/SCI Special Access Program access.
- Experience programming in C and Python.
- Experience developing CNO or exploit capabilities.
- Software analysis/reverse engineering experience.
Nice to have
- Embedded or firmware development on resource-constrained systems.
- Experience with Windows or UNIX development environments, version control, CI/CD, debugging tools, and assembly or mixed C/ASM.
Tools
C, Python, Windows, Linux/Unix, Visual Studio, .NET, Git, Jenkins
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