Senior Embedded Vulnerability Researcher

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Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities

Assess hardware and software for security vulnerabilities using a breadth of technologies and techniques.

Develop software that meets behavior and security requirements for tailored applications.

Integrate software capabilities with other tasks or groups to improve performance or behavior requirements.

Create new tools and systems to detect and exploit vulnerabilities and system weaknesses.

Document nominal application and system functionality, in addition to implemented changes.

Help define the analysis approach for a particular problem and independently execute assignments

Contribute high quality content for technical reports and presentations with minimal guidance

Proactively identify needs and concerns associated with design decisions and communicate them to project leadership

Skills/Abilities

Curiosity-driven approach to solving complex, customer-driven problems as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Collaborate and communicate effectively and openly with multi-disciplinary program team members, program leadership, and non-technical personnel.

Be a team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to balance multiple competing tasks and demands.

Experience 5-10 years experience in Cybersecurity or related field is required.

Additional Job Description:

Program Analysis, Reverse Engineering, and Vulnerability Research:

Proficiency with modern program analysis methodologies and techniques

Reverse-engineering assessment techniques for firmware or embedded systems

Familiarity with binary file and filesystem structures and formats

Hands-on proficiency with reverse engineering tooling such as: Ghidra, IDA, GDB, RR

Hands-on proficiency with physical instrumentation or hardware modification, soldering

Experience with JTAG/SWD/BDM, and eMMC/NAND/SPI flash data extraction

Exploitation techniques for embedded devices across platforms and architectures

Familiarity of network stack and internals

Familiarity of operating system internals throughout user mode, kernel mode, and during boot processes for at least one of the following: GNU/Linux, RTOS

Familiarity with architectures and assembly: x86, ARM, Hexagon, PowerPC

Languages and Development:

Proficiency with programming languages such as: C, C++, Python, Java

Familiarity with scripting languages such as: Bash, Powershell

Familiarity in development environments for GNU/Linux or Windows

Leadership and Business Development:

Successful history in authoring of technical proposals and documents

Leadership in advanced R&D initiatives, including government-funded projects

Leadership of critical programs with more than two full time staff members

Proficient in teamwork and communication with diverse audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with side channel attacks (glitching) to place components and/or devices into altered states to bypass protections.

Familiarity with custom filesystem extraction and modification, removal and/or regeneration of OOB/CRC data.

Familiarity with bus and protocol analysis.

Applicants selected for this position must be required to obtain and maintain a government TS/SCI security clearance.

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