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Junior Embedded Vulnerability Researcher
@The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
[Hiring] Junior Embedded Vulnerability Researcher @The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
Mar 27, 2025 - The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. is hiring a remote Junior Embedded Vulnerability Researcher. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
Draper’s Offensive Cyber Security Group is looking for a Software Cyber Engineer to develop tailored solutions to meet our DoD and IC Sponsor directives.
- Assess hardware and software for security vulnerabilities using a breadth of technologies and techniques.
- Develop software that meets behavior and security requirements for tailored applications.
- Integrate software capabilities with other tasks or groups to improve performance or behavior requirements.
- Create new tools and systems to detect and exploit vulnerabilities and system weaknesses.
- Document nominal application and system functionality, in addition to implemented changes.
- Independently execute analysis assignments under the oversight of program leadership.
- Contribute content for technical reports and presentations with appropriate guidance.
- Adapt appropriately to changes in program requirements.
- Identify challenges associated with assigned work and communicate them to project leadership.
- Curiosity-driven approach to solving complex, customer-driven problems as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Collaborate and communicate effectively and openly with multi-disciplinary program team members, program leadership, and non-technical personnel.
- Be a team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to balance multiple competing tasks and demands.
Qualifications
- 0-3 years experience in Cybersecurity or related field is required.
Requirements
- Experience with modern program analysis methodologies and techniques.
- Reverse-engineering assessment techniques for firmware or embedded systems.
- Familiarity with binary file and filesystem structures and formats.
- Hands-on experience with reverse engineering tooling such as: Ghidra, IDA, GDB, RR.
- Familiarity with physical instrumentation or hardware modification, soldering.
- Familiarity with JTAG/SWD/BDM, and eMMC/NAND/SPI flash data extraction.
- Knowledge of exploitation techniques for embedded devices across platforms and architectures.
- Familiarity of network stack and internals.
- Familiarity of operating system internals throughout user mode, kernel mode, and during boot processes for at least one of the following: GNU/Linux, RTOS.
- Familiarity with architectures and assembly: x86, ARM, Hexagon, PowerPC.
- Proficiency with programming languages such as: C, C++, Python, Java.
- Familiarity with scripting languages such as: Bash, Powershell.
- Familiarity in development environments for GNU/Linux or Windows.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with side channel attacks (glitching) to place components and/or devices into altered states to bypass protections.
- Familiarity with custom filesystem extraction and modification, removal and/or regeneration of OOB/CRC data.
- Familiarity with bus and protocol analysis.
Benefits
- Workplace flexibility.
- Employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga.
- Health and finance workshops.
- Off-site social events.
- Discounts to local museums and cultural activities.
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Software Development
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Salary
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USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 27, 2025
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