Reverse Engineer / Cyber Capability Engineer

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory • Laurel, MD

75d • $100,000 - $227,500

About The Position

Are you a creative engineer with natural curiosity who wants to understand how things work? Do you love finding vulnerabilities and teaming with outstanding reverse engineers? Are you passionate about national security cyber challenges? If so, we want you to join our team at APL! Our team of world-class reverse engineers is growing! We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic engineers who want to learn and love to hack anything. Our team specializes in software and hardware reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and developing proof-of-concept offensive cyber capabilities with a focus on embedded systems. We have custom facilities tailored to specific classes of systems including vehicles, telecommunications/network infrastructure, and industrial systems as well as general reverse engineering labs.

Requirements

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another field relevant to the duties as described above
• Have at least 1 year of relevant experience
• Are experienced with software debuggers and static analysis tools
• Are proficient with one or more programming languages
• Are familiar with assembly
• Understand Unix/Linux operating systems
• Love solving puzzles and have experience persevering through technical challenges
• Are able to obtain a Top Secret level security clearance by your start date and can ultimately obtain TS/SCI+poly level clearance

Nice To Haves

• Have demonstrated leadership experience
• Have knowledge of advanced vulnerability discovery tools
• Understand embedded systems development toolchains
• Have experience with hardware debugging interfaces, code security mechanisms and their weaknesses, hardware diagnostic tools, and signal/protocol analysis
• Possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

Responsibilities

• Reverse engineer embedded systems
• Develop exploits and build mission-aligned proof-of-concept capabilities
• Explore novel techniques for automating reverse engineering and exploit development
• Stretch your reverse engineering skills by working with top experts
• Propose new ideas for internal and external funding opportunities
• Share knowledge by clearly articulating ideas through papers and presentations to team members, APL management, and government decision makers

Benefits

• Generous benefits including a robust education assistance program
• Unparalleled retirement contributions
• Healthy work/life balance
• Comprehensive benefits package including retirement plans, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, education assistance, and training and development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees