Senior Specialist, Security Research Engineer

About the role

L3Harris is seeking a Senior Security Software Research Engineer to join our security group, Trenchant. Our teams consist of elite security researchers and former intelligence professionals focused on achieving mission outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Finding vulnerabilities in ubiquitous Internet-deployed software and/or popular devices' software or firmware.
• Constructing exploits for vulnerabilities discovered by yourself or your team.
• Training, management and provision of guidance to all levels of team members.
• Regular interaction with managers and customer-facing staff members to field queries and questions about technical work.
• Taking an active role in cross-team projects when required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum 6 years prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Preferred Additional Skills:
  • 5+ years of Vulnerability Research, reverse engineering, and bug-hunting.
  • Experience with static and dynamic binary analysis.
  • Experience with iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, or embedded systems kernel, user land, and internals or browser internals.
  • Experience with common tools in security research (e.g. IdaPro, Ghidra, Radare, Binary Ninja, AFL, SysInternals, GDB, WinDBG, etc).
  • Experience with common programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Python, Swift, etc).
  • Experience with common architectures (e.g. x86/64, ARM, AARCH64, MIPS, PowerPC, TILEGX, etc).
  • Experience with modern security system features, exploit mitigations, and evasion techniques (e.g. defeating ASLR, DEP, Control Flow Guard, ROP, Security Product/AV Evasion, etc).
  • Experience with a wide-range of modern exploitation concepts and techniques.
  • Experience with Computer Network Operations / Computer Network Exploitation.
  • Experience with symbolic execution and emulation software (e.g. QEMU, Corellium, VHDL, etc).
  • Cryptographic experience (e.g. side-channel attacks, implementing AES, etc).
  • Experience teaching and mentoring junior vulnerability researchers.
  • Bespoke fuzzer development experience.

Benefits

• Health and disability insurance.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• EAP.
• Education assistance.
• Paid time off.
• Company-paid holidays.

Pay

• Salary range in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and the Greater D.C., Denver, or NYC areas: $111,500 - $207,500.
• Salary range in Colorado state, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York state, and Vermont: $97,000 - $180,000.

Schedule

Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off.