Nightwing is looking for interns interested in a career focused on offensive cyber practices as a Vulnerability Researcher. Nightwing’s goal is to teach interns offensive cyber practices that they would not encounter in everyday normal curriculum. Ultimately interns at Nightwing learn to analyze systems to understand how they work and how they behave when they break.
Requirements
- Experience with C or C++
- Understanding of OS Internals (any major OS)
- Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others)
- Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others)
- Understanding of exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR
- Experience using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, HexRays, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or objdump
- Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg
Responsibilities
- Growth in knowledge of target being researched
- Regular documentation on research results
- Evaluation of research results
- Modifications to research tools and directions
- Productizing successful research to deliver to a customer
Other
- Must be enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) typically Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related area
- GPA of 3.0+ in a 4.0 grade scale
- The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
- U.S. citizenship is required, only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
- Candidates must be professional, self-starters, possess a positive attitude, and work well with engineering and technician teams
