Vulnerability Research Security Engineer
Oceanside, California, United States
A2e Technologies
A2e Technologies - Electronic Design Services / Electrical Engineering Company. From concept to production.A2e Technologies Currently Assisting A Client Seeking:
Title: Vulnerability Research Security Engineer
Term: F/T Perm
Location: Oceanside, Ca.
Start Date: ASAP
Requirement: US Citizenship
Active Security Clearance (or held one in the last 2-4 years)
Responsibilities
- Lead research into automated, intelligent and manual discovery of new (i.e., zero day) cyber vulnerabilities supporting state-of-the-art cyber capability development of national importance.
- Passionate about cybersecurity research and understanding how technology works.
- Apply leading-edge principles, theories, and concepts and contribute to the development of new principles and concepts.
- Work on complex problems and provide highly innovative solutions.
- Operate with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision.
- Specialize in hardware and software reverse engineering,
- vulnerability research, and
- develop proof-of-concept offensive cyber capabilities
- with a focus on cyber resiliency testing of wireless products and satellite communications systems.
- Innovate and collaborate with team to share their knowledge and experience to develop groundbreaking technologies, to test and create advanced and new security techniques.
Requirements
Skills/Experience:
- Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science Degree, or other technical degree
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering preferred
- Technical knowledge of computer architectures, compiler or FPGA design, and/or operating system internals
- Experience with product or network vulnerability assessments with a preference for satellite communication systems.
- Experience with software/hardware reverse engineering to test the exploitation of embedded systems to determine their cyber resiliency
- Work collaboratively with teammates to identify and test new vulnerabilities with a preference for satellite communications systems
- Develop and explore advanced techniques for automating embedded system software analysis and reverse engineering
- Experience in software/FPGA binary or source code analysis
- Proficiency in C, C++, or Python
- Technical familiarity with software defined radios, and/or satellite communications system or waveforms
- Publicly accessible exploits, CVEs and vulnerability research writeups.
- Participation in binary exploitation CTFs, including CrackMe challenges, with publicly accessible writeups.
- Proficiency with software debuggers, static analysis tools (IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, Ghidra, etc.), and symbolic execution tools
- Regularly participate in bug bounties with a preference for having received a monetary compensation or recognition for finding previously unknown bugs
- Previous discovery of one or more zero-day vulnerabilities
- Familiarity with Digital Signal Processing, and/or RF telecommunications with a preference for experience with SATCOM using GNURaio or MatLab
- White box testing and exploitation analysis using source code analysis
- Demonstrate proficiency in product, system and application security threats and vulnerabilities.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- Tuition Reimbursement
- 401k (Employer Match)
- Company Stock Program
- Employee Referral Program
- A2e Does NOT Accept Unsolicited Resumes or Referrals from any source other than the candidate, and, as a result, we will not be considering any unsolicited referrals or resumes sent to us as a fee -based candidate submittal.
- Any unsolicited resumes sent to A2e, including unsolicited resumes sent to a A2e mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to A2e employees, or to A2e’s resume database will be considered A2e property.
- A2e will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.
- Agencies are hereby specifically directed NOT to contact A2e employees, A2e’s recruiting team, or other authorized A2e personnel, in an attempt to present candidates.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Application security C Clearance Code analysis Computer Science Exploits Ghidra Mathematics Matlab PhD Physics Python Reverse engineering Security Clearance Vulnerabilities White box
Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Health care
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