Cyber System Assessments Intern, Summer Research Program 2027 - Group 05-59
About The Position
When you join our team as a Cyber System Exploitation Intern, you'll be contributing to the development of cybersecurity tools and techniques. You'll be performing reverse engineering and exploiting software and hardware systems important to the U.S government operations and critical to the defense of our nation. Your main areas of research will include cyber tool prototyping and technical analysis of offensive or defensive cyber tools and systems, automated vulnerability discovery, reverse engineering, software protection mechanisms, static analysis, and dynamic instrumentation. Once you’re on our team, you will communicate your research to non-domain experts through your writing, public presentations, and hands-on training sessions.
Requirements
- Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related coursework in at least two of the following topic areas: Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Programming Languages, Mathematics or Algorithms.
- Proficiency in Python and C/C++ programming, or similar languages.
- Must be a rising college junior or senior in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related program.
- Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Nice To Haves
- Version Control Systems (Git)
- Dissassemblers/Decompilers (Ghidra, IDAPro)
- Debuggers (WinDbg, GDB)
- Programming Languages (C/C++, Python)
- Infrastructure/Container Provisioning/Orchestration Systems (Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker)
- Network Protocol Analysis (Wireshark, Tcpdump)
- Emulator/Virtualization Technologies (VMWare, QEMU)
- Operating System Internals
- Reverse Engineering of Embedded Systems Firmware, Malicious Code, Mobile Applications, and More + Vulnerability Assessment
- Statistics and Metrics
- SAT/SMT Solvers
- Symbolic Execution
- Data-flow Analysis for Compiled Binaries
- Binary Intermediate Representations
- Binary Translation
- Compiler Construction
- Anti-debugging/Anti-instrumentation Techniques
- Network and Host Security Products
- Vulnerability Assessment
Responsibilities
- Performing reverse engineering and exploiting software and hardware systems important to U.S. government operations and critical to the defense of our nation.
- Cyber tool prototyping and technical analysis of offensive or defensive cyber tools and systems.
- Automated vulnerability discovery.
- Reverse engineering.
- Software protection mechanisms.
- Static analysis.
- Dynamic instrumentation.
- Communicating research to non-domain experts through writing, public presentations, and hands-on training sessions.
Benefits
- Housing support is available for eligible non-local interns, including access to discounted university housing in Boston and a one-time taxable relocation payment.
- Complimentary daily shuttle transportation is provided from Boston-based housing to and from the Lab.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
