Senior Security Research Engineer - Remote

Senior Security Software Engineer | Vulnerability Research | up to £100K

We're partnered with a globally recognised technology organisation building advanced cyber capability across highly sensitive environments.

This role sits within a specialist research team and is heavily focused on vulnerability research, binary analysis and low-level security engineering. Despite the title, this is not a typical software engineering role. It is research‑led, investigative and deeply technical in nature.

You’ll be working on complex security challenges, identifying and analysing vulnerabilities across systems, software and platforms. The work is hands‑on, highly technical and centred around research rather than feature delivery.

Key areas include:

• Vulnerability research and large‑scale discovery
• Binary analysis and reverse engineering
• Exploit development and proof‑of‑concept creation
• Investigating low‑level system behaviour across operating systems and embedded platforms
• Contributing to research direction and technical problem‑solving within the team

• Strong background in vulnerability research, exploit development or reverse engineering
• Experience in Binary Analysis
• Deep understanding of low‑level systems, software internals or embedded systems
• Comfortable working in a research‑led, non‑product environment
• Strong technical curiosity and problem‑solving mindset

• Work on genuinely complex, high‑impact security problems
• Research‑led environment, not a traditional engineering or consultancy setup
• Strong alignment to defence and national security use cases
• High level of technical ownership and autonomy
• Opportunity to work alongside highly specialised researchersli>

This would suit someone currently in a government or defence research environment who wants to continue deep technical work, but in a more flexible and well‑resourced organisation.