6 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Conduct vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and low-level systems security analysis.
- Use reverse engineering tools and techniques including static analysis, dynamic instrumentation, fuzzing, and symbolic execution.
- Analyze exploit classes, memory corruption, binary formats, calling conventions, compiler behavior, and OS-level internals.
- Build or integrate ML/AI systems for binary analysis, vulnerability detection, and exploit pattern identification.
- Research security across embedded systems, mobile platforms, cloud-native workloads, and other complex technical environments.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in vulnerability research, reverse engineering, or low-level systems security.
- Strong proficiency with IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, Frida, or similar reverse engineering tools.
- Expert knowledge of exploit classes, memory corruption, program analysis, and OS-level internals.
- Professional experience building or integrating ML/AI systems, including transformer-based models or code-intelligence architectures.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one of C, C++, Rust, or Assembly.
- Strong understanding of ELF, PE, calling conventions, and compiler behaviors.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph.
- Preferred qualifications include ML model development or fine-tuning for code or binary analysis, reinforcement learning, program synthesis, neurosymbolic reasoning, embedded or mobile systems, cloud-native workloads, security research publications, open-source contributions, red team research, and advanced threat modeling.
Benefits
- Medical insurance cost sharing for employees and dependents.
- Company-paid dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, and AD&D insurance.
- 401(k) plan with generous matching and immediate vesting.
- Paid leave and holiday package.
- Tuition and training reimbursement.
- Competitive pay.
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About AnaVation
AnaVation provides cybersecurity, software, cloud, and data engineering services to U.S. government customers, particularly the federal intelligence community. The company builds and supports cyber collection and processing systems, SOC/incident response capabilities, and big-data and cloud infrastructure used across multiple agencies, including AWS-based environments. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, AnaVation is a private partnership focused on complex government programs.