Cryptanalytic Computer Scientist

Date: Apr 26, 2024

Location: Fort Meade, MD, Maryland, United States

Company: HII's Mission Technologies division

Requisition Number: 18116 

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Hours Per Week: 40 

Security Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly  

Level of Experience: Mid 

Summary

HII-Mission Technologies is seeking a Cryptanalytic Computer Scientist to join our Cyber and Engineering team.  This work is performed on customer site at Fort Meade to directly collaborate with data scientists, cryptologic and cryptanalytic programmers, reverse engineers, and intelligence planners to synergistically enable real-time solutions to be implemented at the speed of need.

 

As part of our Cyber and Intelligence team, you will be engaged in:

  • Employing the hybrid skill set of advanced computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics to ensure solutions to the most difficult cryptanalytic problems
  • Solving challenging cryptanalytic, high-performance computing, and computer network operations problems of critical importance to protecting key cyber terrain

 

 

 

What you will do

  • Using principles, techniques, procedures, and tools to architect and facilitate the development of hardware solutions
  • Applying software engineering principles to design and/or develop software applications
  • Developing methods and applications for tools to exploit and analyze computer systems and network vulnerabilities
  • Designing and optimizing algorithms, data structures, modeling, and analytics to solve real-world scientific problems 

Minimum Qualifications

2 years of relevant experience with a Bachelors in related field; 0 years' experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent with 6 years relevant experience.

 

This opportunity resides with Cyber & Electronic Warfare, a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace. Our deep expertise in network architecture, software and hardware development, cybersecurity and the electromagnetic environment uniquely enables us to support sensitive missions for federal agency partners.

 

HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider. With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics. HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions that support and enable a networked, all-domain force. Headquartered in Virginia, HII’s skilled workforce is 44,000 strong. For more information, please visit: hii.com.

 

HII is committed to cultivating an inclusive company culture to promote collaboration and enhance creativity by hiring a diverse work force. HII is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.