Description

The Homeland and Force Protection Business Area has an immediate opening for a Lead Malware Reverse Engineer SME to support our customer’s mission critical malware analysis programs. This position is an exciting opportunity to leverage your technical skills and support the nation’s defensive cyber operations supporting malware detection and defeat as well as reverse engineering. If you are looking to join and lead a team of the best cybersecurity professionals in the industry supporting our nation’s front line of defense against cyber threats, this is the job for you.

Primary Responsibilities

The Lead Malware Reverse Engineer SME will be responsible for the performance of the work and provide overall direction to Malware Reverse Engineer personnel working under this contract including:

• End-to-end processing of submissions, ingest and triage, ticket creation and prioritization, task assignments, progress tracking and reporting, established Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) and guidance derived from Playbooks
• Overseeing the production process to ensure products are high quality and published in a timely manner.
• Informing leadership when issues or anomalies arise, recommends corrective actions and providing updates and briefs to leadership as required.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of specialized experience in advanced level cybersecurity analytics, cyber threat research, coding and reverse engineering.
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Experience with application security, network security, programming (assembly and web), obfuscation, and encryption techniques in addition to experience and innovation in developing tools and guidance on analysis techniques.
• Proven ability to effectively manage a technical analysis team in a dynamic mission environment, watch floor ops or joint mission operational application.
• Advanced ability of critical thinking, problem solving, and team coordination against multiple mission needs simultaneously.
• Expertise in evaluation and analysis of complex malicious code through the utilization of tools, including dissemblers, debuggers, hex editors, un-packers, virtual machines, and network sniffers.
• Ability to conduct research in malicious software, vulnerabilities, and exploitation tactics at an advanced level.
• Advanced experience in developing mitigation strategies based on malware threats and actor TTPs, to include YARA and SIGMA rules experience with application security, network security, programming (assembly and web), obfuscation, and encryption techniques.
• Experience and innovation in developing tools and guidance on analysis techniques.
• Expertise in technical, executive reporting and production management that provides customers with informed decision-making solutions
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• CISA or DHS cybersecurity experience as a technical SME
• Cybersecurity technical experience in the areas of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) analysis, YARA rule crafting, or developing and maintaining a secure analysis environment

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Original Posting:
August 15, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:
Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.