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Offensive Cyber Developer

Booz Allen Hamilton

Annapolis Junction, MDFull-time$113–257K/yrPosted 4 days agoStill listed today

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Compensation
$113–257K/yr
Location
Annapolis Junction, MD
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Top Secret clearance, required

Job overview

The Offensive Cyber Developer supports offensive cyber missions by developing capabilities and conducting vulnerability research across diverse platforms. The role involves reverse engineering, exploit development, platform-specific analysis, and bespoke tooling for operators and analysts. The developer collaborates with a multidisciplinary team on mission-critical national objectives, applying technical expertise to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Windows, requiredLinux, requiredMobile Platforms, requiredInfrastructure, requiredPython, requiredC, requiredOffensive Cyber Tool Development, requiredSoftware Reverse Engineering, requiredGhidra, requiredVulnerability Research, requiredFuzzing, requiredVulnerability Exploitation, requiredZero-Day Vulnerability Discovery, nice to haveRust, nice to haveRuby, nice to haveAI-Assisted Development, nice to haveOffensive Cyber Mission Support, nice to haveMultidisciplinary Teamwork, nice to have

Qualifications

4+ Years Core Platform SME Experience, required4+ Years Software Development Experience, requiredTop Secret Clearance Eligibility, requiredHigh School Diploma or GED, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Offensive Cyber DeveloperThe Opportunity: You'll support high impact offensive cyber missions by developing advanced cyber capabilities and conducting deep vulnerability research across diverse platforms. You'll apply subject matter expertise in reverse engineering, exploit development, and platform specific analysis to identify, analyze, and utilize unknown software vulnerabilities. This role contributes directly to mission critical, highly impactful national objectives, offering the opportunity to work on challenging problems that require innovative thinking, autonomy, and technical excellence.

As an Offensive Cyber Developer, you will design and develop offensive cyber capabilities, perform hands on vulnerability research, and execute detailed software reverse engineering across a range of technologies. You will analyze complex systems, discover and exploit zero day vulnerabilities, support exploit development, and build bespoke tooling used by operators and analysts.

While program details are restricted, the work you’ll perform is mission critical, exciting, and deeply impactful, influencing real world national level operations. Candidates who want their technical expertise to matter, and who thrive in challenging, meaningful problem spaces, will find this work uniquely rewarding. You’ll collaborate within a multidisciplinary offensive cyber team and operate in an environment that values innovation, autonomy, and deep technical skill.

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

  • 4+ years of experience as a SME in a core platform area, including Windows, Linux, Mobile, or Infrastructure
  • 4+ years of experience in software development, including Python and C
  • Experience developing or maintaining offensive cyber tools
  • Experience with software reverse engineering with tools such as Ghidra
  • Experience with vulnerability research, including fuzzing as a foundational technique
  • Ability to identify, analyze, and exploit software vulnerabilities
  • Ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance
  • HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

  • Experience discovering zero day vulnerabilities
  • Experience with programming in Rust or Ruby
  • Experience with AI assisted development such as AI accelerated coding, exploit primitive identification, and chaining support
  • Experience supporting offensive cyber missions in military, agencies, or similar environments
  • Experience working within multidisciplinary offensive cyber teams

Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

  • Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
  • Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
  • Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,829 open Cybersecurity jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$113–257K/yr
  • Maryland median$126–198K/yr112 salary ranges
  • US median$135–210K/yr2,202 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $185K, is 12% above the Maryland median midpoint ($165K) — in the middle half of Cybersecurity salary ranges in Maryland.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 137 open Cybersecurity jobs in Maryland and 2,829 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Maryland
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Cybersecurity postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (2,377 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,306 of the 2,829 open Cybersecurity jobs (46%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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