Senior Specialist, Security Software Research Engineer

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Security Software Research Engineer 
Job Code: 33495
Job Location: Washington D.C. or Remote (Individual will be remote in Washington D.C.)
Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off.

Job Description:

L3Harris has an immediate opening for a Senior Specialist, Security Software Research Engineer with our security group, Trenchant. Trenchant is responsible for devising and implementing a sophisticated commercial cyber toolkit. 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 researchers, engineers and specialists work on tight-knit interdisciplinary teams. These teams generate thoughtful capability designs and incremental feature releases that reliably deliver cyber solutions into operational environments. Our business unit offers an exceptional value-proposition for individuals looking to make an impact.

Trenchant is an elite global team of engineers and security researchers charged with building world-class computer security products. 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.

Essential Functions:

• Finding vulnerabilities in ubiquitous Internet-deployed software and/or popular devices’ software or firmware.


• Constructing exploits for vulnerabilities discovered by the company.


• Research & development on security technologies in such fields as exploitation, bug-finding, reverse engineering and static analysis.


• Working with and for officers, employees or contractors of the company.


• Training, management and provision of guidance to junior staff.


• Regular interaction with managers, clients, vendors, and customers to field queries and questions.


• Ability to obtain a DoD security clearance.


• Take an active role in cross-team projects when needed.
  
  

Qualifications:

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

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 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.

• Service in the US Intelligence Community or US Military working in cyber operations.


• 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.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in Washington D.C., is $111,500 - $207,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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