Senior Security Researcher

Research Innovations seeks a Senior Security Researcher with Top Secret/SCI clearance to lead the development of offense-grade cyber and network operations software across Windows, Linux/Unix, embedded, and network devices. This onsite role is based in St. Petersburg, FL or Melbourne, FL.

Responsibilities

• Develop offense-grade software designed for denied, constrained, and adversarial environments
• Design, implement, and debug custom CNO capabilities across userland, kernel, and network layers
• Modernize, tear down, and re-engineer legacy and acquired tooling for performance, stealth, and maintainability
• Build software that operates where defenders may not want it, including Windows, Linux/Unix, embedded, mobile, and network devices
• Perform deep binary analysis and reverse engineering across various architectures and calling conventions
• Own and evolve reproducible build systems, toolchains, and test harnesses
• Work close to the metal, focusing on compilers, loaders, memory, execution flow, and runtime behavior
• Travel as determined by the customer

Requirements

• Substantial experience programming in C and Python
• Direct experience developing CNO or exploit capabilities
• Embedded or firmware development experience on resource-constrained systems
• Experience with Windows applications using Visual Studio or .NET environments
• Experience with UNIX applications using makefiles or comparable build environments
• Familiarity with software version control tools (e.g., Git, Subversion, or CVS)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline concepts and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, or Bamboo)
• Experience using software debugging and troubleshooting tools and techniques
• Software analysis and reverse engineering experience
• Comfort writing assembly or mixed C/ASM when required
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with customers

Technologies

• C
• Python
• Visual Studio
• .NET
• Git
• Subversion
• CVS
• Jenkins
• GitLab
• Bamboo
• Windows
• UNIX
• Linux
• Makefiles
• Assembly language

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules
• Health insurance coverage
• Paid time off
• 401k with a company match
• Paid parental leave
• Access to wellness programs

What you will be doing

• Develop offense-grade software for denied, constrained, and adversarial environments
• Design, implement, and debug custom CNO capabilities across userland, kernel, and network layers
• Modernize legacy and acquired tooling for performance, stealth, and maintainability
• Create software that runs where defenders do not want it, including Windows, Linux/Unix, embedded, mobile, and network devices
• Conduct deep binary analysis and reverse engineering across architectures and calling conventions
• Maintain reproducible build systems, toolchains, and test harnesses
• Work near the metal, focusing on compilers, loaders, memory, execution flow, and runtime behavior
• Travel as required by the customer

What you have done

• Substantial experience programming in C and Python
• Direct experience developing CNO or exploit capabilities
• Embedded or firmware development on resource-constrained systems
• Experience with Windows applications using Visual Studio or .NET environments
• Experience with UNIX applications using makefiles or similar build environments
• Familiarity with version control tools (Git, Subversion, CVS)
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Bamboo)
• Experience using debugging and troubleshooting tools and techniques
• Software analysis and reverse engineering experience
• Comfort writing assembly or mixed C/ASM
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with customers

Even better

• Mentored and coached other engineers or served as a Tech Lead
• Experience across OSI layers, including packet-level analysis and manipulation

Referrals

Know someone who would make a great Senior CNO Developer? Refer them at www.researchinnovations.com/external-referrals!