Momentum Engineering, Inc., a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.
Job Summary
- Seeking a highly skilled Cryptologic Computer Scientist to support advanced research and operational cryptologic missions
- Role involves developing, analyzing, and deploying algorithms, systems, and tools used to extract intelligence from complex digital data
- Ideal candidates combine expertise in computer science with knowledge of cryptanalysis, signals intelligence (SIGINT), and high-performance computing to solve challenging national security problems
Primary Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize algorithms and software for cryptanalysis, data mining, and signals processing
- Conduct research on emerging technologies, cryptographic systems, and adversarial computing techniques
- Develop tools and techniques to extract value from encrypted or obfuscated data sources
- Analyze network protocols, encrypted data streams, and computational architectures
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Master’s degree with 9 years of relevant experience, Bachelor’s Degree with 11 years of relevant experience, Associate's Degree with 13 years of in-depth relevant experience that is clearly related to the position
- Degree must be in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, a Physical Science, or a related technical field
- Software Engineer/Developer skills
- Working on analytics and systems to support Data Science Lead
- Heavy data science experience
- Python experience (backend processing, data science tasks)
- JavaScript experience (user interfaces)
- Must have experience in developing and deploying Machine Learning models
- Knowledge of SIGINT systems (collection, processing, querying, dissemination)
- Familiarity with SIGINT authorities, oversight, compliance; syntax for querying various SIGINT systems
- Experience with LLM usage, prompting.
Desired Qualifications
- Creating AI Agents
- LLM Tool-use
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Direct experience with human-machine teaming (not just vibe-coding)
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
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What We Do
Momentum Engineering understands that our customer's unique missions require innovative software solutions and data-driven engineering methodologies. These approaches leverage DevOps principles and cloud-based automation ensuring that applications and systems can be characterized and reliably measured. Our specialists, working as trusted partners to our
customers, have been developing, integrating and maintaining data-centric solutions since our founding in February 2015.
Momentum Engineering provides highly-skilled System Engineers, Software Engineers, and formally trained Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Subject Matter Experts to our customers to help them move their missions
forward.
