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Senior Specialist, Security Research Engineer

L3HHCM20Washington, DC
Remote

About The Position

L3Harris has an immediate opening for a Senior Security Software Research Engineer with our security group, Trenchant. Our teams are comprised of elite security researchers and former intelligence professionals with a fixation on realizing mission outcomes. We are pursuing top-tier senior security researching talent with experience across a host of technologies and paradigms. Our business unit offers an exceptional value-proposition for individuals looking to make an impact. Trenchant’s expertise is the by-product of the L3Harris acquisition of two highly-regarded information security businesses – Azimuth Security and Linchpin Labs. United under Trenchant, we are a key component of L3Harris’ Intelligence and Cyber International Division. We are a trusted, discrete partner furnishing security products, consultancy, training and integration services to allied security, defense, and law enforcement agencies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum 6 years prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Nice To Haves

  • 5+ years of Vulnerability Research, reverse engineering, and bug-hunting.
  • Experience with static and dynamic binary analysis.
  • Experience with iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, or embedded systems kernel, user land, and internals or browser internals.
  • Experience with common tools in security research (e.g. IdaPro, Ghidra, Radare, Binary Ninja, AFL, SysInternals, GDB, WinDBG, etc).
  • Experience with common programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Python, Swift, etc).
  • Experience with common architectures (e.g. x86/64, ARM, AARCH64, MIPS, PowerPC, TILEGX, etc).
  • Experience with modern security system features, exploit mitigations, and evasion techniques (e.g. defeating ASLR, DEP, Control Flow Guard, ROP, Security Product/AV Evasion, etc).
  • Experience with a wide-range of modern exploitation concepts and techniques.
  • Experience with Computer Network Operations / Computer Network Exploitation.
  • Experience with symbolic execution and emulation software (e.g. QEMU, Corellium, VHDL, etc).
  • Cryptographic experience (e.g. side-channel attacks, implementing AES, etc).
  • Experience teaching and mentoring junior vulnerability researchers.
  • Bespoke fuzzer development experience.

Responsibilities

  • Finding vulnerabilities in ubiquitous Internet-deployed software and/or popular devices’ software or firmware.
  • Constructing exploits for vulnerabilities discovered by yourself or your team.
  • Guiding the teams technical outcomes to measurable deliverables for the organization.
  • Training, management and provision of guidance to all levels of team members.
  • Regular interaction with managers and customer-facing staff members to field queries and questions about technical work.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain security clearance.
  • Take an active role in cross-team projects when required.

Benefits

  • health and disability insurance
  • 401(k) match
  • flexible spending accounts
  • EAP
  • education assistance
  • parental leave
  • paid time off
  • company-paid holidays

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What This Job Offers

Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Senior

Number of Employees

5,001-10,000 employees

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