Research Innovations
Senior CNO Developer
St. Petersburg, FL · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 24, 2026
About the job
Develop and maintain custom CNO and exploit software for defense and homeland security customers, including reverse engineering and work across operating systems and hardware layers.
What you'll do
- Build, design, debug, and modernize CNO capabilities and tooling for constrained and adversarial environments.
- Develop software across userland, kernel, network, embedded, mobile, and desktop environments; perform binary analysis and reverse engineering.
- Maintain reproducible build systems, toolchains, and test harnesses; travel as determined by the customer.
What they ask for
- Significant experience programming in C and Python.
- Direct experience developing CNO or exploit capabilities.
- Embedded or firmware development experience on resource-constrained systems.
- Active US Top Secret security clearance and ability to upgrade to TS/SCI Special Access Program access.
Nice to have
- Mentoring or coaching engineers, or experience as a Tech Lead.
- Experience across OSI layers, including packet-level analysis and manipulation.
Tools
C, Python, Windows, Linux/Unix, Visual Studio, .NET, Git, Jenkins
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