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Lead CNO Engineer

USA💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$100,000🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and develop innovative hardware or software-based Computer Network Operations (CNO) capabilities to protect national security systems.

Role type

Lead CNO Engineer (Software/Hardware)

Builds

Mission-critical cyber capabilities and CNO software applications

Domain

Cybersecurity / National Security / Network Operations

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, C/C++, troubleshooting and debugging, low-level system internals, networking protocols (TCP/IP), socket-level programming, team leadership

Preferred skills

software analysis, reverse engineering, assembly language programming, unit testing frameworks, Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, Crucible)

Technologies

Python, C/C++, TCP/IP, Unix, Windows, JIRA, Confluence

Responsibilities

Design and develop CNO capabilities, oversee design, development, documentation, testing, and debugging of software applications, communicate status updates to leadership and stakeholders, ensure software quality and compliance with development guidelines

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with team management

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