About the role
Be Challenged and Make a Difference
In a world of technology, people make the difference. We believe if we invest in great people, then great things will happen. At AnaVation, we provide unmatched value to our customers and employees through innovative solutions and an engaging culture.
Description of Task to be Performed
Come join our growing team and make a difference every day! As part of a high-performing team, the selected candidate will be part of a software research and development team focusing on mobile device forensic analysis including mobile device reverse engineering. The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and integrating software features as a member of a geographically dispersed team, either independently or with limited supervision.
The candidate will need to demonstrate a self-learning aptitude, including the passion and ability to independently acquire new technical skills, tools, frameworks, and domain knowledge with minimal supervision on topics beyond formal job or academic requirements. The candidate will need to have a strong investigative mindset with an interest in software internals, system behavior, protocols, data structures, and low-level implementation details.
This position is currently hybrid (mostly remote, with up to two days per week on-site) with our customer in Lorton, VA. Remote status is subject to change at the customer’s direction but is expected to continue. There will also be several workshops throughout the year where engineers will collaborate on site for one to two weeks.
This position requires an active Top-Secret clearance and the ability to obtain SCI access with a CI polygraph.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree required, with a preference in the areas of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineer, or related discipline.
- Proficient with Python, C, C++ and other programming languages.
- Mobile app development or systems experience / iOS preferred.
- Expertise in source control management with Git.
- Understanding of relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.
- Skill with developer documentation.
- Skill with collaborative coding and ability to adopt shared coding practices.
- Skill developing quality code using best practices such as unit testing.
- Experience collaborating closely in Agile development teams for the development of software tools, including the ability to manage workloads through issue tracking software.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated curiosity, analytical thinking, and persistence required to investigate complex technical problems, develop and test hypotheses, and unravel challenging software behaviors that may take days or weeks to fully understand and resolve.
- Ability and desire to learn unfamiliar technologies, reverse engineer system behavior, and independently investigate software functionality in environments with limited or no documentation.
- Ability to work effectively with incomplete, ambiguous, or contradictory information while maintaining a structured approach to problem solving.
Preferred Qualifications
- Rust, JavaScript, and other programming languages.
- Mobile application decompiling.
- Comfortable viewing, analyzing, and understanding raw binary data.
- Knowledge of common mobile architectures and their associated instructions, including x86 and ARM.
- OS Level expertise in Linux (or similar).
- Experience using industry standard RE tools (IDA Pro, Ghidra, JEB, Hopper) to determine the function of closed-source software.
- Experience with GNU Debugger (GDB).
- Experience identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities, such as memory corruption through stack overflows, heap overflows, integer overflows, and logical flaws.
- Experience with application hooking as a software technique to modify normal execution of an application at runtime to observe or redirect how an app behaves without changing the original source code.
- Software release management experience.
- Experience with Atlassian suite and software project management.
- Computer Network Operations (CNO) experience
Benefits
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
About AnaVation
AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.
If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!
AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Please note: The listed salary range reflects our market-based compensation structure. Final compensation will depend on business needs, local market conditions, internal equity, and the selected candidate’s skills, education, and experience.