Imagine
working with the most sophisticated tools available and over-the-horizon technologies
that won’t come into commercial mainstream use for many years.
The Research Associate Directorate conducts leading-edge research to support our signals intelligence and information assurance missions. Our work is exciting, intellectually challenging, and essential to the security and welfare of the United States of America.
Since 1952, NSA has been the world expert on cryptology and electronic communications systems. Our early interest in cryptanalytic research and flexible storage capability led to the first large-scale and solid-state computers and the development of the tape cassette.
Today, our work takes us to the worlds of knowledge discovery, advanced mathematics, quantum computing, nanotechnology, networking technologies and, of course, computer systems security.
Some of the world’s toughest problems come to NSA, but we don’t do research for the sake of research—we deliver techniques and capabilities that provide timely information to our armed forces and our national leaders.
We seek our nation’s best technical talent to join us in solving some of our country’s urgent intelligence problems—problems that we’re encountering today, and problems we’re anticipating in the future. We especially need computer scientists, system engineers, and industrial designers. Come see what we see. We think you will find a career at NSA to be engaging and challenging.
If you are a student majoring in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or Biotechnology, and a United States citizen, you can receive tuition assistance while you work on our exciting challenging problems. In addition, we offer special exchange programs for visiting professors and industry experts.
We need you. Here, you’ll make a difference.