Clarity Innovations is looking to solve complex national security challenges by transforming data into actionable intelligence for the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD). The Principal Security Researcher will contribute to this by exploiting weaknesses in various systems to enhance operational impact and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Requirements
- Experience with Ghidra, Binary Ninja, IDA or other reverse engineering/disassembler tools
- Experience working in Linux fundamentals (strong grasp of sockets, file descriptors, networking, iptables, file systems, kernel, etc.)
- Ability to read and write C and assembly languages as needed (ARM, MIPS, X86) with some oversight or supervision
- Strong programming fundamentals; particularly with networking, data structures, and data models
- Strong knowledge of AndroidOS
- Strong knowledge of reverse engineering and vulnerability research
- Documented ability to develop exploits for common vulnerability classes
Responsibilities
- Perform vulnerability research and reverse engineering for customer tasks
- Perform static and dynamic analysis applying research tools such as disassemblers, debuggers, and fuzzers
- Be able to communicate security research findings internally and, when and where it is appropriate, externally
- Mentor fellow security researchers
Other
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance (note, only US Citizens are eligible for security clearances)
- Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Degree requirement can be met with four years of hands on experience in a software engineer or similar full time position
- Currently possess a Top Secret security clearance
- Be extremely comfortable communicating with team members, technical partners, and non-technical partners alike.
- Comfortable and confident operating at the early phases of a vulnerability research project and have the mettle to see the project through to multiple phases and iterations.
