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Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

Job in Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri, 63379, USA
Listing for: Jobtailor
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-03
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 170000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 170000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
  • Research and develop production-ready cybersecurity capabilities, develop reverse engineering tools and other cyber research instrumentation
  • Develop, enhance and customize security capabilities, tooling and instrumentation
  • Communicate security research findings to production engineering teams around the world, ensuring integration into platforms and products
  • Collaborate with open-source organizations to ensure quality of our open-source cybersecurity stack, including making quality and feature improvements
  • Conduct experiments to test the limits of state-of-the-art technologies to uncover weaknesses and vulnerabilities
  • Translate research findings into patents, blog posts, and conference publications
  • Maintain an up-to-date awareness of offensive and defensive cybersecurity activities in the public/commercial domain and working to accelerate cyber operations as appropriate
  • Break down long-term efforts into discrete tasks that demonstrate incremental progress
  • Guide product teams through integration of new cybersecurity system designs and testing methodologies
  • Defend research viewpoints to senior and executive leadership by providing compelling information and evidence
Requirements
  • 5+ years’ experience in cybersecurity engineering, development of cryptographic libraries/protocol stacks, vulnerability research, or reverse engineering
  • 5+ years’ experience with C, assembly (ARM, MIPS, RISC-V, Intel , proprietary architectures, etc.), or similar low-level /embedded development
  • 3+ years’ experience with:
    1) host-based virtualization (VMware workstation, QEMU-KVM, Xen, etc.) and emulation technologies (QEMU, Simics, etc.);
    2) conducting offensive cyber research such as vulnerability research and exploit development against embedded systems;
    3) scripting languages like Python in a Linux-like environment; and
    4) debugging embedded systems (JTAG, UART, proprietary debugging environment, etc)
  • Familiarity with embedded systems development and use of cryptography and/or communications implementations
  • Good organization, communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills
  • A go-getter that is passionate to learn about new security vulnerabilities and develop assessment automation solutions
  • Interest and/or experience with bug bounties, capture-the-flag competitions, etc.
  • Experience proposing and executing independent research and development tasks and writing conference-level technical reports
  • Familiarity with version control systems and code review processes
Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in cybersecurity engineering, including vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and development of cryptographic libraries. Proficient in low-level programming and familiar with virtualization and emulation technologies, with strong communication and collaboration skills to integrate findings into production environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords
  • Cybersecurity Engineering
  • Vulnerability Research
  • C Programming
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Offensive Cyber Research
ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills
  • Cryptographic Libraries
  • Low-Level Development
  • Scripting Languages
  • Debugging Embedded Systems
  • Host-Based Virtualization
Soft Skills
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Organization
  • Interpersonal Skills
Industry Keywords
  • Embedded Systems
  • Cybersecurity Stack
  • Bug Bounties
  • Capture-The-Flag Competitions
  • Technical Reports
Tools & Technologies
  • VMware Workstation
  • QEMU-KVM
  • Xen
  • JTAG
  • UART
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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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