SW Engineer Principal

Job ID: 2618938
Location: North Charleston, SC, US
Date Posted: 2026-11-09
Category: Software
Subcategory: SW Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a SW Engineer Principal to join our team. The DoD Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF) SW Engineer Principal (DCWF 341) is a specialized technical role within the Cyberspace Effects workforce element. Personnel in this role write, reverse-engineer, and test low-level code, binaries, and scripts used for force projection or external defense operations. At the Intermediate to Advanced levels, developers transition away from heavily supervised tasks to autonomously engineering complex software tools, identifying zero-day hardware/software flaws, and leading code analysis pipelines. This position is located in North Charleston, SC.
Key Responsibilities:

• Capability Engineering: Design, develop, and test custom software utilities and scripts to satisfy operational cyber requirements.
• Low-Level Development: Write and maintain scalable, robust code utilizing C, C++, Python, and Assembly language.
• Reverse Engineering & Vulnerability Analysis: Analyze software binaries and malware to dissect functions, isolate anomalies, and identify exploitable hardware/software flaws.
• Operational Testing: Conduct rigorous software containment, isolation, and testing utilizing sandboxes and virtualization environments.
• Technical Guidance: Provide technical peer reviews of code repositories and mentor junior developers working under the Joint Basic CCD framework.

Qualifications
?Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree and nine (9) years work experience; Masters and seven (7) years of work experience; four (4) years additional work experience in lieu of degree.
• Proficient with reverse-engineering suites and debugging utilities (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra, OllyDbg, GDB).
• Deep understanding of computer networking protocols, network security methodologies, and application-layer security vulnerabilities.
• Familiarity with secure coding standards and mitigation strategies against memory corruption vulnerabilities.

Clearance Requirements:

• An active TS/SCI clearance is required to start.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .