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Senior Vulnerability Researcher/Hardware Reverse Engineer/CNO Developer (Onsite)

Nightwing · San Antonio, TX · 3 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

About the role

At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we’ll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze systems to understand how they work and how they behave when they break.
  • Develop and defeat new and advanced security techniques.
  • Undertake projects in small teams with close coordination with customers.
  • Write code and take systems apart as needed.
  • Study disassembly and write Python to audit C++ code.

Requirements

  • Ability to obtain a U.S. Government TS/SCI Clearance.
  • Experience with C or C++.
  • Experience with Python.
  • Basic hardware reverse engineering of embedded systems.
  • JTAG, CAN, SWD, or other hardware interface experience.
  • Requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred) and a minimum of 5 years of prior engineering experience or equivalent experience, or MS with minimum of 3 years of experience.
  • 4 or more of the following desired skills:
    • Existing U.S. Government DOD TS or TS/SCI Clearance.
    • Understanding of OS Internals (any major OS).
    • Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others).
    • Familiarity with stack frames, calling conventions, and memory management.
    • Experience developing embedded systems.
    • Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others).
    • Experience with exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR.
    • Experience using reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra, IDA Pro, HexRays, Binary Ninja, or objdump.
    • Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg.
    • Experience building and using tools to find, exploit, and productize vulnerabilities in complex software systems.
    • Experience with full system emulation for research and analysis.

Qualifications

  • Education Required: BS/MS in technical discipline (Equivalent work experience will be considered).

Skills

  • Ability to obtain a U.S. Government TS/SCI Clearance.
  • Experience with C or C++.
  • Experience with Python.
  • Basic hardware reverse engineering of embedded systems.
  • JTAG, CAN, SWD, or other hardware interface experience.
  • Requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred) and a minimum of 5 years of prior engineering experience or equivalent experience, or MS with minimum of 3 years of experience.
  • 4 or more of the following desired skills:
    • Existing U.S. Government DOD TS or TS/SCI Clearance.
    • Understanding of OS Internals (any major OS).
    • Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others).
    • Familiarity with stack frames, calling conventions, and memory management.
    • Experience developing embedded systems.
    • Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others).
    • Experience with exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR.
    • Experience using reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra, IDA Pro, HexRays, Binary Ninja, or objdump.
    • Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg.
    • Experience building and using tools to find, exploit, and productize vulnerabilities in complex software systems.
    • Experience with full system emulation for research and analysis.

Benefits

What We Offer Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.

Pay

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