Vulnerability Researcher
$127,080–$277,200 year
HybridReston, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Research cutting-edge techniques and technologies for system exploitation, leveraging expertise in reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and software development to address established needs and investigate emerging requirements. Apply software engineering best practices to create proof-of-concept tools and configure test environments for sponsor demonstrations. Assist the department head in maintaining relationships with sponsors through on-site technical discussions, preparation of technical materials, and project correspondence. Provide guidance to lower-level engineers to foster professional growth while applying project management principles to lead tasks and projects. Understand broad strategic objectives, nurture relationships with major customers and grantors, and initiate new project concepts to seek funding and develop technical proposals. This role is part of the Cyberspace Operations Research Department at Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory in Reston, VA.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree - Engineering or Science
- 14+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's Degree - Engineering or Science
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's Degree - Engineering or Science
- 2+ years of relevant experience
- Active government security clearance at TS/SCI level with eligibility for special accesses
- U.S. citizen
- Eligible to obtain a government security clearance
- Eligible to participate in the ARL drug testing program
- Ability to comply with electronic and physical monitoring requirements applicable to federal contractors
- Documented application of reverse engineering and vulnerability testing tools (e.g. Ghidra/IDA, Kali Linux, Angr/AFL++, QEMU/Unicorn, etc)
- Reverse engineering, vulnerability research, malware analysis, and/or CNO tool development
- Computer networking fundamentals, Windows and *NIX operating systems, X86(64) and ARM or MIPS architectures
- Cyber operations architecture and software engineering practices
- Software programming, programming languages, and development environments (to include at a minimum C, Java, or Python)
- Ability to express technical information clearly and concisely in documents and presentations for senior leaders to successfully comprehend and leverage for decision making
Desired Qualifications
- Cybersecurity exploit development and test environment configuration
- Cybersecurity penetration testing / cybersecurity Red Team testing / white hat hacking
- Military cyberspace operations or computer network operations
- Demonstrated history of successful project initiation efforts
- Agile software development methodology and tools
- Atlassian products (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)
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