Principal Software Engineer

Fort Meade, MD TS/SCI with Polygraph Full-Time $190,000 – $250,000 Actively hiring

Active TS/SCI clearance required. Benz Technology is unable to sponsor security clearances. U.S. citizenship required.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to design, develop, and deliver high-performance software capabilities in support of advanced analytics mission objectives. You’ll work directly with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, production-ready software solutions. This role goes deep on low-level systems programming, binary analysis, and algorithm development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain software applications supporting mission requirements
• Analyze customer needs and translate conceptual designs into scalable software architectures
• Develop efficient algorithms leveraging data structures, dynamic programming, heuristics, and modeling techniques
• Work at the operating system level including file I/O, system APIs, and memory management
• Develop advanced tools for binary analysis, shellcode detection, function identification, and reverse engineering of compiled software
• Analyze and modernize legacy codebases
• Develop and validate software prototypes to explore and prove out technical solutions

Required Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python for software development and scripting
• Ability to read and understand C/C++ and x86 Assembly
• Experience with software architecture design and operating system internals
• Hands-on experience with compilers, debuggers, and low-level development concepts
• Familiarity with executable program analysis, system APIs, and memory management
• Strong algorithm development skills across data structures, dynamic programming, and heuristics

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with malware analysis and shellcode detection
• Background in reverse engineering of compiled software
• Familiarity with network protocol analysis

Why engineers join Benz

• 15% employer 401(k) — vested day one, no match required
• 28 paid days off per year
• $7,500 annual tuition reimbursement
• $2,500 training & development budget
• 28 years in business — our engineers stay through recompetes