Security Research Engineer
Integration Innovation, Inc.2 years ago
Arlington, VA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$118k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Triage findings, reproduce vulnerabilities, perform root-cause analysis, and support proof-of-concept development.
- Build and maintain LLM harnesses connecting models with research tools, context, and execution environments.
- Develop automation for code and binary analysis, experimentation, evidence collection, and report generation.
- Improve research workflow reliability through logging, execution controls, reproducibility, and evaluations.
- Verify generated code and findings against observable system behavior.
- Maintain reusable scripts, research environments, and documentation.
- Work with researchers to turn investigation techniques into dependable tools.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in security research, software engineering, security tooling, or closely related work.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field; additional experience may substitute for the degree.
- Demonstrated vulnerability-analysis experience, including reproducing issues and understanding root causes.
- Strong programming skills and experience building maintainable tools for other users.
- Hands-on experience building or substantially extending LLM harnesses, including tool integration and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with reverse engineering, debugging, and proof-of-concept development.
- Clear technical writing skills for documenting evidence, assumptions, and limitations.
- Experience with sandboxed execution, fuzzing infrastructure, automated evaluations, or reproducible research environments is preferred.
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.
Benefits
- The position is with a 100% team member-owned business.
- The listed pay range is $118,000-$203,000.
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About Integration Innovation, Inc.
Integration Innovation, Inc. (i3) provides engineering, training, cybersecurity, and modeling-and-simulation services for U.S. defense and aerospace programs and select commercial clients. The privately held, 100% employee-owned company, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, supports Army aviation, C5ISR, and flight/launch training, including lab integration and interoperability testing at Redstone Arsenal. Its business model centers on government services contracts and technology development engagements.