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Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer
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Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri, 63379, USA
Listed on 2026-08-03
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Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-03
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity
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
- 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
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
- Cryptographic Libraries
- Low-Level Development
- Scripting Languages
- Debugging Embedded Systems
- Host-Based Virtualization
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Organization
- Interpersonal Skills
- Embedded Systems
- Cybersecurity Stack
- Bug Bounties
- Capture-The-Flag Competitions
- Technical Reports
- VMware Workstation
- QEMU-KVM
- Xen
- JTAG
- UART
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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