Senior System Software Engineer/Analyst - CASS

ANTICIPATED AWARD: February/March 2026
ANTICIPATED START: March 2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 1 Base Year + 4 Option Years
LOCATION: Charlottesville, VA

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Active TS/SCI

About Us:

Celestar, a proud Veteran-Owned company, offers highly competitive salaries and benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes company-paid employee and family dental insurance, employee health insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage. Additionally, we provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching, paid holidays, and personal time off.

Responsibilities:

·The Senior System Engineer/Analyst will produce written assessments and technical reports based on engineering and computer science analysis of embedded weapon system software and firmware.

·Triage new software sets to identify priority software for deeper analysis.

·Analyze software/firmware extracted from weapon systems for capability and performance characterization as well as vulnerability assessments. Extract software/firmware from multiple types of micro-electronics on printed circuit boards.

·Utilize open source, commercially available, and government produced tools to support technical analysis of software systems. Perform digital forensics analysis of memory devices to recover valuable information related to system.

·Produce working virtual machines from software sets provided that may need specific support software or hardware drivers to be produced. As needed to support specific customer needs produce hardware emulators to support dynamic software analysis.

·Drive collection to provide the specific technical data required to assess software

systems capabilities and vulnerabilities. Provide briefings to customers needing engineering and computer science analysis and discussion about their specific technical issues.

·Tasks will include specific focus on the following technologies commonly found in ground weapon systems:

•System characteristics and software algorithms related to radar systems

•Software algorithms related to cryptography and radio frequency hopping

•Software algorithms related to battlefield management and communication systems

•Software algorithms related to jammer systems

•Signals analyst to assess C4 signals and protocols

•System characteristics and software algorithms related to unmanned systems

•System characteristics and software algorithms related to vehicles systems

•Logic designs and implementation for FPGAs

•Penetration testing

•Specific operating systems such as Windows, Linux, QNX, or others

Required qualifications/skills:

·Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years with a master’s degree.

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·A minimum of 17 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years with a bachelor’s degree.

·Experience in the following labor categories will be relevant: computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineer, computer architect, programming engineer, and any daily work experience dealing with the interface of hardware and software in embedded special purpose systems.

·Responsible for the technical intelligence analysis of weapon systems and C4 networks.

·Technical analysis includes analyzing printed circuit boards, hardware devices such as microprocessors, digital signal processors (DPS) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) design, extraction of firmware, analysis of software and firmware to understand the capabilities and performance of the system based on software analysis.

·Analysis includes embedded systems and with networking and real-time operating system integration. Analyzes protocols used in C4 systems and reverse engineers' unknown protocols.

·Identifies customer requirements, Intelligence Community (IC) priorities, intelligence gaps, collection opportunities, and new technology or system developments to plan analytical products.

·Applies engineering/scientific knowledge and experience to research and analyze C4 topics utilizing data research and modeling and simulation tools. Creates hardware emulators for dynamic analysis of complex software systems.

·Coordinates and collaborates with IC partners and customer activities to share and corroborate analytical information.

·Develops collection, research, and analytical plans.

·Produces S&TI intelligence products, such as system capability and vulnerability assessments.

Come on board with a company that Values its Employees!

Celestar Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Celestar Corporation prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in employment based on race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex (including same-sex); sexual orientation; gender identity; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability or handicap; citizenship status; marital status; service member/protected veteran status; or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.