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Senior Application Developer with Security Clearance

Neural SolutionsColumbia, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 5, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Senior Application Developer role offers a competitive salary and the chance to leverage your reverse engineering and software development skills in a mission-critical environment, fostering significant career growth. You'll thrive here if you enjoy collaborating with diverse teams to build cutting-edge security solutions and are eager to make a tangible impact in advanced security operations. Apply now to join a reputable company and contribute to impactful projects with excellent compensation.

Quick Overview

Salary
$204k - $247k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Employee
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Columbia, MD, United States
Posted
Yesterday
RustAssemblyBashC#ConfluenceC++GitJavaJavaScriptJiraPerlPowerShellPython

Job Description

This role involves working on upcoming projects to design, develop, prototype, modify, and integrate solutions that provide mission-centric results in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You will collaborate closely with analysts, operators, data scientists, and other software engineers to offer critical support for evolving national security challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Augment existing toolsets.
  • Derive, document, and analyze requirements.
  • Build prototypes to demonstrate understanding of mission requirements.
  • Produce end toolsets that can operate within mission constraints.
  • Work with customer leadership to build relationships for mission success.

Required Skills

  • Experience developing advanced security operations software in Linux/Windows/Embedded applications.
  • Familiarity with Reverse Engineering, especially using Ghidra.
  • Ability to produce and modify software systems in C/C++/Python.
  • Provide support for fielded software systems.
  • Knowledge of Git and Subversion.
  • Experience with Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence).
Nice to Have:
  • Experience with Java, JavaScript, Bash, Assembly (both x86 and x64), PowerShell, Perl, C#, or Rust.
  • Familiarity with vulnerability research and exploit development.
  • Understanding of end-to-end intelligence collection and analysis systems.
  • Knowledge of production advanced security operations capabilities and operations.

Experience Required: 12 years with Bachelor's degree in technical field, or 10 years without degree Location: Columbia, MD Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph required Salary Range: $204,000 - $247,000

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