# Senior Malware Engineer / Active Top Secret

Responsibilities Peraton is currently hiring a Senior Malware Reverse Engineer for its' Federal Strategic Cyber programs. Location: Arlington, VA (Hybrid - On-site/Remote: 50/50). Local candidates able to work in a hybrid environment required. Overview: The Federal Strategic Cyber group is seeking a Senior Malware Reverse Engineer to support mission-critical cybersecurity operations for a long-term government customer. This role offers the opportunity to work on advanced malware threats, support active operations, and shape defensive strategies that protect high-value federal networks. Responsibilities: Isolate, analyze, and reverse-engineer malicious binaries to determine behavior, functionality, and intent. Conduct in-depth static and dynamic analysis of malware samples across multiple platforms. Produce comprehensive technical reports detailing findings, characteristics, and operational impact of malicious code. Support active cyber operations and engage with cutting-edge challenges in the malware analysis domain. Recommend countermeasures and mitigation strategies for malware targeting government communication systems. Reverse-engineer known and suspected malware to support inc

- **Id**: 1118399
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/peraton-senior-malware-engineer-active-top-secret>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Arlington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T17:39:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T23:01:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4234
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, Homeland Security

## Company

- **Id**: 722
- **Name**: Peraton
- **Domain**: peraton.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/peraton>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.053
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 135000
- **Max**: 216000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 216000

## Technologies

- **Ghidra** — Optional: no
- **IDA Pro** — Optional: no
- **OllyDbg** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Wireshark** — Optional: no
- **x64dbg** — Optional: no
- **.NET** — Optional: yes
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **PowerShell** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T17:39:33Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: green card filings: 4; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 14
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.497
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 216000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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