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NSA STEM and cybersecurity professionals are curious, collaborative and always up for a challenge. You will work on problems of national importance while continuing to learn new skills and expand your career.

You can be hired into positions that directly support a specific office within the agency or into one of our development programs, a full-time position combined with advanced training and rotating assignments.

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Computer Science

NSA’s systems environment is a haven for computer scientists, with vast networks able to manipulate and analyze huge volumes of data at mind-boggling speeds. Your time will be spent solving problems, testing approaches and researching solutions.

Example full-time opportunities in this field include:

  • Software Engineer
  • Computer Systems Architect
  • Computer Systems Researcher
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Cybersecurity

NSA’s cyber mission requires specialists in research, development, systems engineering and design, project management and team leadership. Our cyber professionals do it all – protect and defend U.S. government IT systems, exploit adversaries’ intelligence, produce integrated threat assessment, mitigation and protection products – and more!

Example full-time opportunities in this field include:

  • System Vulnerability Analyst
  • Computer Network Defense Analyst
  • Network Manager
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Data Science

NSA’s data scientists gather, make and communicate principled conclusions from data through their knowledge of mathematics, statistics and computer science, plus AI, ML Ops, and human perception and cognition engineering. You’ll solve complex problems by using predictive modeling, developing analytics, constructing usable data sets from multiple sources and more.

Example full-time opportunities in this field include:

  • Data Scientist
  • Data Engineer
  • Machine Learning Operations Engineer
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Engineering and Physical Sciences

NSA offers some of the world’s most demanding and exhilarating high-tech engineering challenges requiring analysis, design, simulation, experimentation, benchwork, prototype development and testing, manufacturing and possibly fieldwork. We offer multiple areas of focus for engineers, including computer, electrical systems, mechanical and structural, as well as a wide range of opportunities in the physical sciences, including chemistry, biology and physics.

Example full-time opportunities in this field include:

  • Systems Engineer
  • Assistive Technology Engineer
  • Design Engineer for High Performance Computing
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Mathematics

NSA applied research mathematicians spend their days focusing on some of today’s most distinctive challenges and problems. They apply number theory, group theory, finite field theory, linear algebra, probability theory, mathematical statistics, combinatorics and more.

An example full-time opportunity in this field is:

  • Applied Research Mathematician

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We recruit for a wide range of positions – from computer scientists to engineers, to mathematicians, to language analysts. Not sure which job is right for you?

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