Senior Forensic Developer at AnaVation
Washington
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Jul 23, 2026
Washington
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior software engineering role focused on building forensic tools for federal cybercrime and digital evidence investigations. Day-to-day work involves developing applications for artifact extraction, file-system parsing, memory analysis, and mobile-device forensics, as well as reverse engineering binaries and automating investigative workflows. The role suits an experienced engineer with a digital forensics background who wants their work to support law enforcement and national security missions.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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Why we read it this way (9)
The role is primarily about BUILDING forensic software (file-system parsers, memory analysis tools, mobile-device parsers, automation frameworks), which maps to Software Developers (15-1252). However, the deep digital-forensics and reverse-engineering focus means Information Security Analysts (15-1212) is a plausible runner-up.
Clearance path: candidates must be eligible for a Secret clearance, but the immediate hard gate to start work is DHS Entry on Duty (EOD) suitability. An active DHS EOD is listed under Preferred Qualifications as a bonus.
EnCase, AXIOM, X-Ways, and Cellebrite are listed under Required Qualifications as forensic platform familiarity; they are grouped as interchangeable examples of the same requirement. EnCase is used as the primary name with the others in alternatives.
IDA Pro, Ghidra, and radare2 appear under Preferred Qualifications and are treated as interchangeable reverse-engineering tools.
'Forensic tool plugin development' is drawn from the preferred qualifier 'Experience developing plugins or forensic-tool extensions' — listed under Preferred Qualifications.
Master's degree and forensic certifications (GCFE, GASF, CFCE, EnCE) are listed as preferred/beneficial; no specific technology is attached to them, so they are not emitted as skills.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): reverse engineering, binary analysis, scripting/automation, forensic tool plugin development.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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