Overview of Opportunity

Two Six Technologies is seeking a Principal Firmware Reverse Engineer for our team in Herndon, Virginia. You will work with a range of clients supporting national security missions. You will become a trusted advisor while learning and performing valuable technical and industry skills. You will expand your reverse engineering and exploit development skills and will transition those findings into capabilities.

Job Responsibilities & Duties

• Take on complex technical problems for which there is often no known answer
• Provide technical leadership and direction on multiple ongoing projects, and interface directly with clients/key stakeholders to present findings and gather design constraints
• Conducting in-depth reverse engineering and vulnerability analysis across various architectures and platforms
• Modeling and analyzing in-memory compiled application behavior to answer customer requirements
• Assist with the forward development of technical solutions
• Leading and managing a team of employees, including setting goals and objectives, developing strategies, and assigning tasks

Qualifications & Skills- Required:

• Bachelor s (or higher) degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (solid knowledge in RE or VR may substitute for a specific degree)
• Minimum 7 years of experience in firmware development using low-level programming languages (C and at least one assembly language), scripting languages (e.g., Python), and the *nix command line
• Strong familiarity with cybersecurity principles and a strong interest in learning more
• Minimum 2 years of experience with common disassemblers/decompilers and reverse engineering tools (IDA, Ghidra, Binary Ninja)
• Experience with software reverse engineering concepts: static analysis, dynamic analysis, fuzzing techniques
• Experience providing technical/functional direction and developing techniques to implement, ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Experience leading a small technical team of engineers and researchers
• Experience with embedded applications and bare metal RE
• Knowledge of DSP
• Active Top Secret clearance
• Must be willing to obtain and maintain a SCI

Nice If You Have

• Strong familiarity with cybersecurity principles and a strong interest in providing guidance to program staff
• Experience with software reverse engineering concepts: static analysis, dynamic analysis, fuzzing techniques creating intellectual capital, white papers, blogs, etc. to maintain existing and expand new business.
• Familiarity with building or securing embedded devices, other digital systems, and embedded binary reverse engineering (ARM, RTOS, etc.)
• Familiarity with basic cryptography design and implementation concepts
• Previous experience in a client-facing technical role

Clearance Requirements:

• Active US Security clearance of Top Secret level and ability to obtain and maintain SCI
• Must be willing to obtain and maintain a Polygraph clearance

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