Vulnerability Researcher - Austin, TX

Date Posted:

2022-03-10-08:00

Country:

United States of America

Location:

TX345: Stone Lake Boulevard Austin 10900 A Stone Lake Boulevard, Suite 120 Quarry Oaks 1, Austin, TX, 78759 USA

Position Description:

Vulnerability Researchers at Raytheon CODEX analyze systems to understand how they work and how they behave when they break. Candidates must be able to play both sides of the fence, both developing and defeating new and advanced security techniques. Projects are undertaken in small teams with close coordination with customers. All our engineers write code, but many of our engineers spend as much time taking systems apart as building new ones. A typical day can involve studying disassembly or writing Python to audit a piece of C++ code.

Required Skills:

•2+ years of professional experience

•Experience with C or C++

•3 or more of the following desired skills

Desired Skills:

•Understanding of OS Internals (any major OS)

•Experience with Vulnerability Research

•Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others)

•Experience developing embedded systems

•Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others).

•Understanding of exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR

•Experience using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, HexRays, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or objdump.

•Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg

•Experience with BDI/JTAG

•Experience with modern C++ development, such as RAII, C++11 and C++14.

•Experience building and using tools to find, exploit, and productize vulnerabilities in complex software systems

Security Clearance:

Qualified applicants may be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum qualifications for access to classified information. U.S. Citizenship is required. Qualified applicants must meet the requirements to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Education required:

BS/MS in technical discipline or Equivalent work experience will be considered.

Employee Referral Award Eligibility: Only employees currently within RMD and RI&S have the potential to receive a Referral Award for submitting a referral to RMD and RI&S roles. ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the Referral Awarding.

 

Requires theoretical to advanced knowledge of work area typically obtained through University Degree combined with experience. Practical knowledge of RTX projects, programs

or systems with the ability to make enhancements and leverage in daily work.

Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience.

Engineering/Other Technical Positions:Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics(STEM) and a minimum of 2 years of prior

relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.

Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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