[Hiring] Browser - Vulnerability Researcher @Trenchant

Role Description

You will join an established offensive-security organisation with a large team of senior and principal-level vulnerability researchers and exploit developers. Our browser research is focused on producing working exploit capability — not just crashes, reports or theoretical attack paths. This role is for a researcher who has already found and exploited vulnerabilities in production browsers. You should be comfortable owning the full path from attack-surface selection and root-cause analysis to reliable primitives, exploitability decisions and clean technical handover.

What you’ll work on

• Renderer-reachable attack surfaces in Chromium, with room to work on WebKit or Firefox where relevant.
• Memory-corruption and logic vulnerabilities in V8, Blink, WebAssembly, DOM bindings, parsers, media, graphics and adjacent C/C++ components.
• Exploitation under modern constraints including pointer compression, heap isolation, control-flow protections and the V8 Sandbox (formerly commonly referred to as the Ubercage).
• Variant analysis, patch diffing and adjacent-code research rather than stopping after a single bug.
• Collaboration with sandbox, platform and kernel researchers when a renderer issue is part of a larger chain.

What you’ll deliver

• Original browser vulnerabilities with a clear root cause and reliable reproduction.
• Working exploit primitives or chain components that survive realistic release-build mitigations.
• Minimised test cases, exploitability analysis, affected-version notes and reproducible research environments.
• Readable exploit code and technical documentation that another senior researcher can pick up and extend.
• Tooling that improves fuzzing, instrumentation, crash triage, variant hunting or exploit-development speed.

Qualifications

• A proven record of delivering browser vulnerabilities or exploit components against modern browser releases.
• Deep practical knowledge of Chromium internals, ideally including both the renderer and V8.
• Strong C/C++ debugging, reverse engineering and source-audit skills.
• Hands-on experience turning use-after-free, type confusion, out-of-bounds access or related bug classes into useful primitives.
• A real understanding of the V8 Sandbox security model and how it changes exploitation strategy.
• The judgement to distinguish an interesting crash from a chainable, operationally meaningful vulnerability.
• The ability to work independently and finish difficult research without constant direction.

Requirements

• Browser CVEs, Pwn2Own-level work or comparable real-world exploit delivery.
• Experience with custom browser builds, sanitizers, source instrumentation and targeted fuzzing harnesses.
• Exploit-chain work across Android, iOS, macOS, Windows or Linux.
• Research on JITs, garbage-collected heaps, cross-language ownership.
• A history of raising the technical level of other experienced researchers.

How we work

• Fully remote, with high autonomy and direct access to other senior researchers and exploit developers.
• We care about completed, reproducible technical delivery.
• Public credits are useful but not required.