Careers with National Impact
At NSA, delivering world-class intelligence and cybersecurity expertise is in our code. Our work protects the nation.
Step into the Mission
By joining NSA, you become part of a team of professionals across various areas like cybersecurity, language, math, computer science, analysis, and engineering, to name a few.
A career at NSA offers you the opportunity to work with the best, shape the course of the world and secure your own future.
Careers
Cybersecurity
Work in research, development, systems engineering and design, project management and leadership.
Protect and defend IT systems, exploit adversaries' intelligence, develop threat assessments, mitigation and protection products and more.
Computer science
Work in our vast networks to manipulate and analyze huge volumes of data at mind-boggling speeds.
You will solve problems, test approaches and research solutions.
Intelligence analysis
You will generate intelligence by researching and analyzing data derived from foreign signals and present findings for frontline decision-makers.
Language analysis
You will use your understanding of the nuances of foreign language context, cultural overtones and dialect to provide decision-makers with clear and concise intelligence reports.
Engineering and physical sciences
You can work with computers, electrical systems and mechanical and structural systems, as well as opportunities in the physical sciences, including chemistry, biology and physics.
Mathematical sciences
You will spend your day focusing on some of today's most distinctive challenges and problems.
You will apply number theory, group theory, finite field theory, linear algebra, probability theory, mathematical statistics, combinatorics and more.
Find your fit with NSA
We recruit for a variety of jobs from analysts to lawyers, to linguists, to communication specialists. Not sure which job is right for you? Use the Job Exploration Tool (JET) to help align your education and skills to positions within the Intelligence Community (IC).
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About NSA
Combat support
Supporting our military service members around the world is one of the most important things we do.
Our SIGINT mission
SIGINT provides America's leaders with the critical information they need to defend our country, save lives and advance U.S. goals and alliances globally.
Our cybersecurity mission
Our cybersecurity work prevents and eradicates threats to U.S. national security systems, with a focus on Defense Industrial Base and the improvement of the nation's weapons' security.
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