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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Principal Emulation Developer to join our team! In this role you will get to lead in the continued development of new features for our internal system emulator and vulnerability research tools. Specifically, we expect an Emulation Developer to be working on proprietary and open-source extensions to custom capabilities we've built on top of QEMU.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead a small team of other engineers to understand customer problems in multiple domains and apply emulators, instrumentation, and automation to solve those problems
• Collaborate with end-users across many problem domains (hardware development, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, statistical analysis, software development) to identify additional ways in which the emulator could be improved
• Develop solutions to problems or deficiencies identified by customers or other employees
• Break proposed solutions down into smaller tasks that can be incrementally implemented and tested (as additional features, bug fixes, extra tools, etc.)
• Develop code in a maintainable fashion following our internal guidelines for code quality, build processes, unit testing, and managing release artifacts
• Manage both regular releases and extra, on-demand releases of custom tool/emulator builds to different internal and external customers

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree or additional years of experience required in lieu of degree
• Active TS clearance required
• 10+ years of relevant work experience in areas like emulator development, operating system kernel development, and embedded software development
• Solid understanding of both C and Python (which constitutes most of our codebase)
• Familiarity and experience with different software architectures at the assembly level (x86/x86-64, ARMv7, ARMv8, MIPS, RISC-V, etc.)
• Familiarity and experience with development on/with a major emulator platform (QEMU highly preferred)
• Strong organization and communication skills

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Experience modifying and enhancing QEMU
• Experience developing Vulnerability Research enabling tools like fuzzers, memory taint analysis, instruction tracing, etc.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret security clearance is required for this position.​

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: $120,800.00 - $217,400.00

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

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