Senior Vulnerability Researcher (Cyber267)
Research Innovations5 days ago
St. Petersburg, FL, USA or San Antonio, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Lead advanced vulnerability research across operating systems, kernels, firmware, hypervisors, embedded platforms, and complex application stacks
- Scope ambiguous attack surfaces and drive research from hypothesis through validated findings
- Reverse engineer compiled binaries across x86/x64, ARM, PowerPC, and other architectures and perform in-memory analysis
- Design and execute novel exploitation techniques and mitigation evaluations
- Analyze undocumented system behavior and extend internal interfaces or tooling
- Collaborate with senior researchers to shape technical direction and review complex work
- Translate low-level findings into actionable insights for internal stakeholders and customers when appropriate
- Mentor researchers, share knowledge, and improve research tools, methodologies, and workflows
Requirements
- Active US Top Secret security clearance and ability to upgrade to TS/SCI Special Access Program access
- High-impact vulnerability research experience on real-world systems with minimal guidance
- Deep understanding of Windows, Linux, macOS, operating system internals, kernel subsystems, and low-level execution models
- Experience reverse engineering complex binaries, firmware, or kernel components and analyzing their in-memory behavior
- Experience developing proof-of-concept exploits or mitigation bypasses demonstrating meaningful impact
- Understanding of ASLR, DEP/NX, stack canaries, and CFI and their limitations
- Ability to write research tooling, scripts, or frameworks using Python, C, or C++
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical audiences
- Preferred experience with hypervisors, virtualization stacks, firmware boot chains, trusted execution environments, embedded systems, RTOS environments, iOS, Android, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or cellular security
- Preferred contributions to the vulnerability research community through publications, talks, or open source
- Preferred experience with symbolic execution, constraint solving, fuzzing frameworks, advanced program analysis, malware analysis, deobfuscation, behavioral analysis, or adversarial tooling
Benefits
- Flexible work schedules
- Health insurance coverage
- Paid time off
- 401k with company match
- Paid parental leave
- Access to wellness programs
- Benefits available from day one and paid for by RII
- Community game room, pantry, massage chair, escape room, community ambassadors, and regular community events