Lab Tech Lead - CASS

ANTICIPATED AWARD : February / March 2026

ANTICIPATED START : March 2026

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE :  1 Base Year + 4 Option Years

LOCATION : Charlottesville, VA

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT : Active TS / SCI

About Us :

Celestar, a proud Veteran-Owned company, offers highly competitive salaries and benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes company-paid employee and family dental insurance, employee health insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage. Additionally, we provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching, paid holidays, and personal time off.

Responsibilities :

• TheLab Tech Lead willserve as the primary technical point of contact in order to provide guidance and oversight to the most challenging analytic issues facing the Software Analysis Lab and the System Software Engineering / Analysts team members.
• This individual should assist in enabling other analysts by providing input to the most challenging analytic, research and production related issues and tasks.
• The Lab Tech Lead should be able to be able to expertly work across all the efforts happening within their team, to allow for maximum collaboration.
• Triage new software sets to identify priority software for deeper analysis.
• Analyze software / firmware extracted from weapon systems for capability and performance characterization as well as vulnerability assessments. Extract software / firmware from multiple types of micro-electronics on printed circuit boards.
• Utilize open source, commercially available, and government produced tools to support technical analysis of software systems. Perform digital forensics analysis of memory devices to recover valuable information related to system.
• Produce working virtual machines from software sets provided that may need specific support software or hardware drivers to be produced. As needed to support specific customer needs produce hardware emulators to support dynamic software analysis.
• Drive collection to provide the specific technical data required to assess software
• systems capabilities and vulnerabilities. Provide briefings to customers needing engineering and computer science analysis and discussion about their specific technical issues.
• Tasks will include specific focus on the following technologies commonly found in ground weapon systems :

oSystem characteristics and software algorithms related to radar systems

oSoftware algorithms related to cryptography and radio frequency hopping

oSoftware algorithms related to battlefield management and communication systems

oSoftware algorithms related to jammer systems

oSignals analyst to assess C4 signals and protocols

oSystem characteristics and software algorithms related to unmanned systems

oSystem characteristics and software algorithms related to vehicles systems

oLogic designs and implementation for FPGAs

oPenetration testing

oSpecific operating systems such as Windows, Linux, QNX, or others

Required qualifications / skills :

specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years

or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Come on board with a company that Values its Employees!

Celestar Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Celestar Corporation prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in employment based on race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex (including same-sex); sexual orientation; gender identity; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability or handicap; citizenship status; marital status; service member / protected veteran status; or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.