Senior CANO Developer

ARA's ISR division is looking to hire a Senior CANO Developer! Senior CANO Developer must have 3+ years as a software developer.

Proficient in C and C# and BOFs.

Should have 1+ years’ experience in offensive capability development for Windows environments.

Should have 1+ years’ experience working in an agile/scrum environment.

Offer is contingent upon contract award.


* Must be a US citizen with an active TS security clearance 


* Special requirements:
+ Must pass the DCART senior developer aptitude test before joining DCART as an Operator.
+ Demonstrated expertise pursuant to cyberenabling close access operations.
+ Demonstrated experience with vulnerability research, exploitation, and n-day weaponization against wireless and mobile (Android / IOS) targets.


* In addition, desired skills/certifications are:
+ Experience with C2 frameworks, especially Cobalt Strike.
+ Experience with host-based computer forensics, network-based forensics, cyber incident response, cyber-criminal investigation, intrusion detection/analysis, designing countermeasures and mitigations against potential exploitations of programming language weaknesses and vulnerabilities, cyber red teaming, network penetration testing, security operations center analysis, defensive cyber operations, or offensive cyber operations.
+ Malware development, analysis, binary disassembly, binary decomplication, network/communication protocol analysis, software vulnerability research, or software exploit development.
+ 3-5 years development industry experience.
+ Experience in the development of Windows kernel modules.
+ Strong familiarity with Windows Active Directory.
+ Experience developing exploits, shellcode, and bypassing mitigations such as nonexecutable stack (NX) and ASLR as well as more advanced exploit mitigations.
+ Strong familiarity with the Windows API/Win32 modules for tool development
+ Ability to conduct dynamic analysis as needed via debuggers.
+ Expertise in AV/EDR evasion techniques.
+ 8 total years of experience (or BS degree with 2 total years of experience)

Who is ARA?

Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates, Inc.

(aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company.

We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979.

ARA has over 2,279 employee-owners and continues to grow rapidly.

Together, our offices throughout the U.S.

and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm.

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