Senior Security Software Research Engineer

Role Overview

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

Requirements

• 3+ 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 (preferred).
• Experience with symbolic execution and emulation software (e.g. QEMU, Corellium, VHDL, etc) (preferred).
• Cryptographic experience (e.g. side-channel attacks, implementing AES, etc) (preferred).
• Experience teaching and mentoring junior vulnerability researchers (preferred).
• Bespoke fuzzer development experience (preferred).

Tech Stack

• Android
• iOS
• Linux
• Python
• Swift

Benefits

• Bonus scheme
• An additional week of leave per annum plus the option to buy or sell up to 2 weeks additional annual leave.
• Salary continuance insurance (SCI pays 75% of your base salary and bonus for up to 2 years)
• Flexible working hours and patterns depending on location
• Discounted private health insurance
• Life & Total Permanent Disability Cover
• Novated Car Leasing
• Company supported professional development programs
• Company paid parking
• Retail Reward programs