Firmware Security Engineer
About Ascendion
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About the Role
Location: Redmond, 98052 (Hybrid Role)
Responsibilities
- Build and Enhance Security Analysis Pipelines:
- Develop preprocessing pipelines for compiling C/C++ firmware code into LLVM IR.
- Implement and maintain LLVM-based transformations for off-target analysis and fuzzing.
- Design systems for generating and executing fuzzing campaigns using modern frameworks.
- Security Automation and Tooling:
- Enhance vulnerability detection pipelines and reduce false positives through improved analysis techniques.
- Improve reporting systems for actionable engineering insights from security findings.
- Build scalable automation combining compiler infrastructure, security tools, and AI-driven workflows.
- Open-Source Readiness:
- Improve system reliability, modularity, test coverage, and CI/CD automation.
- Create developer documentation, onboarding guides, and architectural references.
- Support dependency review, reproducible builds, and open-source readiness activities.
- Contribute to long-term technical strategy and platform evolution.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong professional experience in C/C++ software development.
- Hands-on experience with compiler technologies, LLVM, or low-level systems programming.
- Experience with fuzzing frameworks like libFuzzer, AFL, AFL++, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of software security principles, including memory-safety.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with large language models (LLMs) and automated fuzzing.
- Knowledge of open-source engineering practices.
- Previous work in firmware security analysis.
Benefits
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Long-term disability insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- 5 personal days accrued each calendar year.
- 10-15 days of paid vacation time
- 6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year
- Ascendion Learning Management System
Pay
The annual salary for this position is between $150,000 - $190,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.