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Philadelphia, PA
Vulnerability Researcher
Philadelphia, PA
Keebler, Wunsch and Cremin
Philadelphia, PA
Vulnerability Researcher
- Provide subject matter expertise, vision, and hands-on guidance to the junior members of the team
- Provide a written summary of the work, and also present the work to the senior leadership
- Extract relevant information from the dark and deep web, and create statistical models of users, networks, systems, and adversaries
- Use disassemblers, debuggers, and other assembly level tools to perform analysis of compiled binary files (usually x86/64, occasionally ARM or other architectures)
- Assess and investigate specific threats to an information system in terms of severity and impact
- Analyze common network services and software applications in order to discover new and potential vulnerabilities
- Maintain continuous awareness of threats, vulnerabilities, and techniques in mobile security and associated fields
Houston, TX
Mid-level Vulnerability Researcher
Houston, TX
Graham-Jenkins
Houston, TX
Mid-level Vulnerability Researcher
- Reverse engineer Customer Furnished Equipment, Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) equipment, and other equipment to understand how the system hardware, software and firmware operate together
- Conduct detailed source code reviews of custom developed solutions, to include static and runtime analysis to identify security vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks
- Contribute to the development of highly technical hardware and software cyber solutions that interact with industrial, military, communications, aerospace, and other applications, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis
- Have an extensive knowledge of C/C++, python, assembly language, scripting and other programming languages
- Conduct scientific experiments in the cyber domain, and have an in-depth knowledge of the TCP/IP protocols and cyber domain
- Create detailed reports on vulnerabilities, bugs, and design flaws found in industrial information systems
- Proficient in the use of IDA or other equivalent Disassembler
present
Chicago, IL
Senior Vulnerability Researcher
Chicago, IL
Zulauf-Oberbrunner
present
Chicago, IL
Senior Vulnerability Researcher
present
- Perform 0-day research on open and close source software
- Provide insight into mid and near future mobile security trends, give expert strategic direction, and contribute both original ideas and technical content
- Weaponize memory corruption vulnerabilities
- Evangelize security policy and best practice within and outside of Salesforce
- Foundational knowledge in Operative Systems
- Act as key team participant in internal security research endeavors
- Research new threats, attacks and risks to Salesforce systems and software
Education
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Colorado State University
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Skills
Skills
- 1-2+ years of professional experience
- 0-6 years of software reverse engineering or vulnerability research experience
- 4+ years of professional experience
- 2-4+ years of professional experience
- Experience using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, HexRays, or objdump
- Experience developing embedded systems
- Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others)
- Understanding of exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR
- Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others)
- Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg
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Software Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Passion for the customers and mission we serve
- Capacity to learn and grow into a technical leader
- Humility to learn from others and treat others with mutual respect, and satisfied without public recognition of work
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Software Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Reverse engineer software for security mechanism bypass
- Develop instrumentation in support of primary tasks
- Take self initiative to remain knowledgeable of evolving trends in offensive and defensive cyber tools, tactics, and procedures
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Senior Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Experience with C or C++
- 8+ years of professional experience
- Understanding of OS Internals (any major OS)
- Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others)
- Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others)
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Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- 1-2+ years of professional experience
- 1-2 or more of the "desired skills" below
- Experience developing embedded systems
- Experience with modern C++ development, such as RAII, C++11 and C++14
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Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Assess and investigate specific threats to an information system in terms of severity and impact
- Use disassemblers, debuggers, and other assembly level tools to perform analysis of compiled binary files (usually x86/64, occasionally ARM or other architectures)
- Create detailed reports on vulnerabilities, bugs, and design flaws found in industrial information systems
- Create IPS/IDS rules and other mitigations to protect vulnerable systems
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- Proficient in the use of IDA or other equivalent Disassembler
- Familiarity with identifying, analyzing, and ethically exploiting the various classes of vulnerabilities that affect executable code
- Ability to travel up to 5%
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Vancouver, Canada
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
- Ability to use Wireshark to capture and analyze network traffic
- Hands-on experience working with Windows and Linux based systems
- Programming skills in one or more languages (we develop using Python, LUA, C, and Java)
- Ability to understand machine language, operating systems, common APIs, libraries and runtime environments and how they interact with hardware, firmware, and binary code
- Familiar with digital electronics and microcontrollers
- Exposure to SCADA/DCS systems or industrial technologies
- Knowledge of VxWorks, Windows CE, Embedded Linux, or other RTOS
- Understanding of IDS/IPS technologies such as Snort, Suricata, or BRO
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Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- 5 years overall engineering experience with 2 yrs of Vulnerability Research and/or Reverse Engineering experience
- Minimum Top Secret security clearance
- Coding!!! - The ability to quickly write programs to accomplish point solutions in languages like Python, C, C++, C#, PHP
- Software reverse engineering – Experience using IDA Pro to determine how an application works and processes data. This could include x86, ARM, ARM64 etc
- Experience identifying zero days including memory corruption bugs for example stack overflows, heap overflows, integer overflows, logical flaws
- Experience with mitigation techniques (ASLR, Stack cookies, non-executable memory)
- Protocol Analysis - Knowledge of how IP/Serial based protocols work and how to reverse their format including checksums, MACs, encoding formats, HTTP, XML etc
- Fuzzing - Experience of writing and running fuzzers, understanding of the differences between dumb and more intelligent fuzzers, and how reverse engineering feeds the process
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Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Provide subject matter expertise, vision, and hands-on guidance to the junior members of the team
- Deliver thought, leadership, and overall direction and roadmap to the vulnerability, discovery, assessment, and exploitation areas
- Provide a written summary of the work, and also present the work to the senior leadership
- Be familiar with the existing tools and methodologies used for systems assessments and exploitations, and also create new tools, if needed
- Extract relevant information from the dark and deep web, and create statistical models of users, networks, systems, and adversaries
- Conduct scientific experiments in the cyber domain, and have an in-depth knowledge of the TCP/IP protocols and cyber domain
- Have an extensive knowledge of C/C++, python, assembly language, scripting and other programming languages
- Analyze common network services and software applications in order to discover new and potential vulnerabilities
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Vulnerability Researcher / Reverse Engineer Resume Examples & Samples
- 4+ years of experience in reverse engineering using tools, including IDA Pro, Windbg, Ollydbg, and GDB
- 4+ years of experience in software development with C/C++
- 4+ years of experience with low level operating system internals
- Experience with network traffic analysis using Wireshark
- Experience with scripting languages, including Python and Bash
- Knowledge of basic cryptography and cryptographic primitives, including hash functions, symmetric ciphers, and public key encryption
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Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science/engineering + 6 years related security experience
- Experience with vulnerability classes such as memory corruption, heap overflows, use after free (UAF), or type confusion
- Experience with one or more of: fuzzing, dynamic instrumentation, hardware level virtualization/reference counting
- Ability to use Wireshark to capture and analyze network traffic and a strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
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Vulnerability Researcher & Patriot Resume Examples & Samples
- U.S. citizens ONLY due to government or federal requirement**
- 2+ years overall engineering experience with 1 yr of Vulnerability Research and/or Reverse Engineering experience
- Minimum active Top Secret security clearance, and ability to pass polygraph
- Coding!!! - The ability to write programs quickly to accomplish point solutions in languages like Python, C, C++, C#, PHP
- Operating Systems Architecture - Knowledge of how operating systems work from “user land” code right through to the kernel
- File format reverse engineering – Experience determining how files are structured, understanding the standard methods for encoding data from Base64 to ASN1
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Senior Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Perform 0-day research on open and close source software
- Weaponize memory corruption vulnerabilities
- Research new threats, attacks and risks to Salesforce systems and software
- Evangelize security policy and best practice within and outside of Salesforce
- BS/MS degree, or relevant work experience
- Experience with memory corruption exploitation and DEP/ASLR bypassing
- Experience coding C/C++ projects
- Foundational knowledge in Operative Systems
- Experience with reversing tools (OllyDbg, IDA Pro, gdb, WinDbg...)
- Experience with x86, x64 and ARM architectures
- Experience writing fuzzing tools
- Experience with SMT solvers and binary analysis techniques
- Experience in some scripting language (Python, Ruby, Go ...)
- Ability to self motivate when given strategic goals
- Information security certifications, GPEN, OSCP, OSCE, OSWE, CISSP
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Vulnerability Researcher & Mobile Tech Enthusiast Resume Examples & Samples
- 3 years overall engineering experience
- 1 year of vulnerability research and/or Reverse engineering
- 1 year of recent experience with Android internals, ARM, and/or Linux Kernels
- Encryption - A good understand of how symmetrical and asymmetrical encryption works, certificate chain of trust, crypto weaknesses etc
- Coding - The ability to quickly write programs to accomplish point solutions in languages like Python, C, C++, C#, PHP
- Code Review - The ability to review source code to identify bugs and vulnerabilities
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Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Develop computer code in multiple languages as applicable
- Take self-initiative to remain knowledgeable of evolving trends in offensive and defensive cyber tools, tactics, and procedures
- Perform as a team lead on projects when suitable
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Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Must have 5 years of experience in at least one of the following: vulnerability research, reverse engineering, or exploit development
- Develop technical solutions for information operations related to national security topics including: access analysis, system vulnerability research, exploit development and network security for platforms and applications
- US citizenship required
- Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience working in a Linux command line environment
- Experience with various network security tools
- Experience with cyber security concepts and workflows
- Knowledge of windows, UNIX and Linux based operating systems
- Ability to analyze all-source intelligence material and develop new tactics, techniques, and procedures to meet strategic and operational needs
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical team members, managers, and customers
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Senior Software Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Ability to obtain a Secret level US Government security clearance. If you do not currently have a clearance, and are a US Citizen, please apply as we seek the best technically qualified candidates regardless of clearance. If you already have a clearance, we can hold any clearance level (even TS/SCI w/poly)
- Exhibit our core values: Passion, Capacity, and Humility. We care about our culture so team fit is important
- Strong problem solving and communication skills
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Principal Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Familiarity with PE/ELF file formats, linkers, and compilers
- Experience solving Capture-the-Flag (CTF) challenges
- Experience developing and/or reversing Software Protection / Obfuscation techniques
- Embedded development/reverse engineering experience
- Strong understanding of and experience with cryptographic protocols
- (Active) U.S. Government Security Clearance
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Junior Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Reverse engineer Customer Furnished Equipment, Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) equipment, and other equipment to understand how the system hardware, software and firmware operate together
- Develop vulnerability research and reverse engineering reports with sufficient depth and detail such that cyber capability developers can translate the reports into technical requirements for cyber tools and/or products that exploit system weaknesses
- Contribute to the development of highly technical hardware and software cyber solutions that interact with industrial, military, communications, aerospace, and other applications, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis
- Develop and/or support development of system documentation (requirements analysis, testing procedures, configuration management, user guides, etc.)
- Experience with C/C++, Python, Java, Ruby (minimum one scripting and one programming language)
- 3 or more of the "desired skills" below
- Experience developing embedded systems and tools
- Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg
- Experience with fuzzing tools (e.g. AFL, Peach) and interpreting crash reports that result from fuzzing
- Have participated in multiple CTF events
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Mid-level Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Analyze the system and identify exploitable vulnerabilities
- Conduct detailed source code reviews of custom developed solutions, to include static and runtime analysis to identify security vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks
- Understanding of OS Internals (binaries associated with any major OS)
- Understanding of exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR
- Experience using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, HexRays, or objdump
- Conducted penetration testing (able to use tools such as Metasploit)
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Senior Cybersecurity Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 6+ years of experience
- Strong knowledge of C, C++ and x86 and/or ARM assembly
- Strong background in vulnerability analysis and exploitation
- Development and vulnerability research experience on Windows, Linux, OSX and embedded systems
- Experience in Hypervisor development, with a focus on security
- Experience with firmware security
- Kernel development skills
- Reverse engineering embedded devices
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Cybersecurity Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
- Background in vulnerability analysis and exploitation
- Experienced with WinDBG, GDB, or LLDB. IDA experience a plus
- Experience with hypervisor or firmware development and security
- Operating system kernel development skills
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Senior Vulnerability Researcher Resume Examples & Samples
- Interact with customers to identify their specific requirements and provide expert advice and direction on optimal and efficient means of achieving their objectives
- Act as key team participant in internal security research endeavors
- Engage in extensive reverse engineering of mobile and wireless technology
- Perform vulnerability analysis of mobile/embedded platforms, applications, protocols, and supporting infrastructure
- Thoroughly document, in a manner suitable for widespread publication, all aspects of research including everything from initial discovery to methods and procedures used to findings and future research steps
- Maintain continuous awareness of threats, vulnerabilities, and techniques in mobile security and associated fields
- Provide insight into mid and near future mobile security trends, give expert strategic direction, and contribute both original ideas and technical content
- Limited travel as required
- Experience leading security research teams desired
- Experience as a primary technical contributor in large-scale projects desired
- Familiarity with at least one mobile or embedded platform programming environment desired
- Experience writing C/C++ desired
- In-depth knowledge of internals of one or more operating systems (Windows, Linux) desired
- Experience with kernel-level programming and/or debugging desired
- IDA Pro scripting (IDC or IDAPython) desired
- Experience reverse engineering complex applications desired
- Experience with fuzzers and fuzzing techniques desired
- Experience writing clear, concise documentation desired
- Math or cryptography background desired
- Telecommunications experience desired
