3 months ago
Cambridge, MA, USA or Reston, VA, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$75k - $156k/yr
Responsibilities
- Assess hardware and software for security vulnerabilities using varied technologies and techniques.
- Develop software and tailored applications that meet behavioral and security requirements.
- Integrate software capabilities with other teams to improve performance and required behavior.
- Create tools and systems to detect and exploit vulnerabilities and system weaknesses.
- Develop kernel modules, drivers, firmware, hypervisor internals, custom bootloaders, and forensic instrumentation.
- Analyze operating-system, hypervisor, and BIOS/UEFI internals for forensic evidence, persistence mechanisms, hidden processes, rootkits, and anomalies.
- Capture and analyze memory dumps, crash reports, and runtime logs.
- Document application and system functionality and implemented changes.
- Define analysis approaches, independently execute assignments, and contribute technical reports and presentations.
- Identify design concerns, communicate with project leadership, and support advanced R&D initiatives and critical programs.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in cybersecurity or a related field.
- Proficiency developing kernel modules, drivers, or firmware for Windows, GNU/Linux, RTOS, or UEFI/BIOS.
- Proficiency implementing hypervisor internals, including virtual-machine lifecycle management and hardware emulation.
- Proficiency crafting bootloaders or firmware instrumentation for forensic data collection.
- Proficiency with anti-reverse-engineering, obfuscation, and diversification techniques.
- Proficiency analyzing operating-system internals, reverse engineering closed-source hypervisors and firmware, and dissecting memory management, interrupt handling, and system calls.
- Proficiency with BIOS/UEFI forensic analysis and identifying persistence mechanisms, hidden processes, and kernel-level rootkits.
- Proficiency with C, C++, Python, GoLang, or Rust and their build systems.
- Experience with software version control systems.
- Successful history authoring technical proposals and documents.
- Leadership experience in advanced R&D initiatives, government-funded projects, or critical programs with more than two full-time staff members.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate with multidisciplinary teams and diverse audiences.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a government TS/SCI security clearance.
Benefits
- Workplace flexibility and programs supporting work-life balance.
- Employee clubs, including photography and yoga.
- Health and finance workshops.
- Off-site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities.
- Full-time role located in Reston, Virginia.
