Senior Hardware Reverse Engineer

Job Title

Our elite team of reverse engineers is growing and we need more hardware experts who love to understand the inner workings of embedded systems! We strive to foster an innovative and collaborative team environment where engineers can hack the latest technologies to find and exploit vulnerabilities to solve the hardest national security challenges and have real-world impact. Our team specializes in software and hardware reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and developing proof-of-concept offensive cyber capabilities with a focus on embedded systems.

Do you want to collaborate with world-class experts to crack seemingly-impossible problems? If so, we want you to join our team at APL!

As a member of our group, you will:

• Reverse engineer embedded systems and develop innovative exploits
• Collaborate with government sponsors and operators to build mission-aligned capabilities
• Explore novel techniques for automating reverse engineering and exploit development
• Propose groundbreaking ideas for internal and external funding opportunities
• Mentor teammates in the art and science of reverse engineering hardware
• Share knowledge by clearly articulating ideas through papers and presentations to team members, APL management, and government decision makers

Qualifications:

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or another field relevant to the duties as described above
• At least 5 years of relevant experience
• Understand embedded hardware and software design, development, and testing
• Have experience with hardware debugging interfaces, code security mechanisms and their weaknesses, hardware diagnostic tools, and signal/protocol analysis
• Are skilled with oscilloscopes, multi-meters, power supplies, and logic analyzers
• Have experience soldering, prototyping, and bread boarding
• Have familiarity with software debuggers and static analysis tools such as Ghidra
• Are proficient with one or more low-level programming languages
• Understand Unix/Linux operating systems
• Love solving puzzles and have experience persevering through technical challenges
• Hold an active TS/SCI clearance and can ultimately obtain a TS/SCI+Polygraph clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information; eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.

You'll go above and beyond our minimum requirements if you:

• Previously held dynamic technical leadership roles and have demonstrated mentoring experience
• Have demonstrated versatility with professional experience in hardware RE, software RE, and capability development
• Have knowledge of advanced vulnerability discovery tools
• Possess an active TS/SCI clearance with full scope polygraph

Minimum Rate: $100,000 Annually

Maximum Rate: $245,000 Annually