Senior Security Research Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Responsibilities:

• Research, analyze, and assess attack surface and vulnerabilitydata

• Develop tailored and actionable mitigation strategies and plans to address vulnerabilityrisk

• Work with new and emerging vulnerability data toidentifypotential attack paths in critical systems.

• Document, developand present mitigation strategiesinweb applications,databases,standalone applications, etc.

• Analyze the root cause of vulnerabilities and support the prioritization of mitigations based on risk and return on mitigation

• Provide mitigation strategies that prioritize risk against level of effort for multiple systems ororganizations

• Catalog mitigation advice, challenges, and trends and patterns

• Patchdiffing andreverse engineeringwith tools such asGhidra, IDA, etc.

• Provide subject matterexpertiseon tailored mitigations to resolve and remediate vulnerabilities on targetedtechnologies

• Work in fast-pacedstartuplikeenvironmentwith shifting priorities to handle andmaintainbalance with multiple stakeholders.

• Conduct research to assess and create software patches and configuration changes to be applied to varied software,middlewareandhardware

• Provide assessment including security, system, and business impact ofvulnerabilities

• Must be able to think ahead to avoid business outages based on the labresults

• Analyze vulnerability data and support management of identified vulnerabilities, including tracking, remediation, andreporting

Desired Skills:

• Excellent understanding of network,systemand application security

• Experience with IDA Pro,Ghidra, or similar binary analysis tool

• Knowledge of various vulnerability scanning solutions is aplus

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• Graduate with preferable 4 years degree or at least 3-year degree with computer science and information technology background

• Secure architecture designs and use of detection/protection mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS, full-packet capture technologies) to mitigaterisk

• A solid understanding of industry best practices for Patch Management

• Specific demonstrated experience mapping business processes and comparing those processes to industry bestpractices

• Background around using or understanding of security tools would beplus

• Solid understanding of the security implications of a patch on web applications, Windows, Linux, Mac OS operating systems

• Thorough testing of patches in a non-production environment

• Have working knowledge of basic operation systems commands and tooling - Windows, Linux, Mac OS

• Should havevery goodcommunication and articulationskills

• Ability and ready to learnnew technologyand should be a good teamplayer

What you get to do:

Work within Threat Research, detection and response teams and analysts to define the priority, design the solution, and contribute to build framework for patchingvulnerabilities