Senior Vulnerability Engineer

Highlights

• Discover novel vulnerabilities across firmware, embedded systems and protocols.
• Turn vulnerability research into rigorous technical artifacts with mission impact.
• Design hardware-in-the-loop experiments combining software and lab instrumentation.

Ideal candidate

Mission-driven vulnerability researcher who thrives dissecting embedded and hardware-adjacent systems and turning findings into practical impact. Clear communicator biased toward real-world security outcomes in defense technology.

Requirements

• Strong experience discovering vulnerabilities in firmware, applications, network services, embedded Linux systems, drivers, protocols, IoT devices, or hardware-adjacent systems
• Proficiency with Python, C, C++, Rust, or Go for vulnerability research and tooling
• Experience with fuzzing, harness development, crash triage, exploitability analysis, source-code review, binary analysis, or dynamic instrumentation
• Ability to reason about memory corruption, logic flaws, auth failures, unsafe parsing, concurrency and trust-boundary failures
• Hands-on familiarity with Linux, embedded systems, networking, debugging, and security research tooling
• Ability to communicate impact, reproduction steps, and mitigations to research and engineering audiences
• Bias toward practical, mission-enabling security outcomes rather than purely theoretical findings
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• Experience evaluating secure boot, firmware update paths, key storage, memory protection, and debug controls
• Comfort with lab-based validation using hardware interfaces, protocol analyzers and debuggers