Job Requirements
Reston, VA
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph Unspecified
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
$150,000 - $225,000
Job Description
Responsibilities:
Required:
Desired:
Clearance:
- Reverse-engineer software and firmware and conduct vulnerability research across a range of targets and architectures.
- Develop proof-of-concept exploits and produce clear findings that inform both offensive operations and defensive hardening.
- Apply AI/ML — including large language models and agentic systems — to accelerate security research, analysis, and automation.
- Build machine-learning models that detect anomalous and malicious behavior in high-volume security and operational data.
- Prototype new capabilities fast, and mature the most promising into hardened, deployable tools.
- Collaborate across the engineering team and mentor others; help set the technical bar for our offensive-cyber and AI work.
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Reverse engineering — strong, demonstrated experience with industry-standard tools such as Ghidra and IDA Pro, working comfortably from compiled and stripped binaries.
- Low-level fundamentals — assembly language (e.g., x86/x64, ARM) and a solid grasp of Windows and Linux internals and debugging.
- Vulnerability research & exploit development — finding and proving memory-corruption and logic flaws using techniques such as fuzzing and dynamic analysis.
- Strong programming in Python and C/C++.
- Applied AI/ML experience — building and deploying real systems with PyTorch and modern open-source LLMs and tooling.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to juggle multiple efforts in a fast-moving environment.
Desired:
- Embedded / firmware reverse engineering and familiarity with emulation tooling.
- Experience with agentic / tool-using AI workflows and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- MLOps and deployment experience (Docker, Kubernetes, model-serving frameworks), including on-prem or edge deployment.
- Prior work on a government-sponsored offensive-cyber, vulnerability-research, or red-team program.
- Offensive-security certifications such as OSCP, OSED, GXPN, or GREM.
Clearance:
- Active TS/SCI preferred; active SECRET (minimum) with the ability and willingness to obtain higher access. U.S. citizenship required.
group id: 91085617
