Hardware Reverse Engineer

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

Overview of Opportunity 

Two Six Technologies is seeeking a Hardware Reverse Engineer to will tackle unsolved hardware and software problems in order to find vulnerabilities and mitigate them on mission critical platforms. For each assessment, you will also be responsible for communicating findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to inform business and security decisions. When not analyzing systems, you will work with the testbed team in operating a cyber range, used for testing and validating various engineering prototypes.

This work will be onsite at our Laurel, MD office with  up to 25% travel.

Responsibilities

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  • Reverse engineer and analyze complex embedded systems to understand behaviors and identify vulnerabilities
  
  
  • Draft technical reports related to the function, characteristics, and any potential vulnerabilities of hardware and firmware
  
  
  • Rapidly prototype innovative technologies to analyze and exploit target systems
  
  
  • Document SOPs and find ways to iteratively improve processes
  
  
  
  

Qualifications

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  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
    
    
    
    • Equivalent practical experience in security research, reverse engineering, vulnerability research, or exploit development may substitute for a degree
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with at least one of the following:
    
    
    
    • Experience developing on embedded systems such as high speed data devices or system-on-modules
    
    
    • Experience analyzing and reverse engineering binaries (x86/ARM/AVR)
    
    
    • Debugging embedded systems using tools such as JTAG, UART, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 3+ years with programming in Python, Bash, and C
  
  
  • Active Top Secret level clearance with eligibility for SCI
  
  
  
  

Preferred Skills

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  • Experience as part of small R&D teams composed of researchers, engineers, and scientists
  
  
  • Experience scripting with the Binary Ninja API or Ghidra to automate complex reverse engineering workflows
  
  
  
  

Security Clearance:

• Active Top Secret level clearance with eligibility for SCI

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