Penetration Tester – Hardware

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $90k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Packetlabs

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Packetlabs is a CREST-accredited, SOC 2 Type II attested cybersecurity firm specializing in impact-first penetration testing and red teaming. They provide comprehensive on-premise, cloud, application, API, mobile, OT, and AI/LLM penetration testing, as well as social engineering, purple teaming, and cyber maturity assessments, focusing on actionable findings with zero false positives and no outsourcing. Packetlabs serves enterprise clients across industries such as retail, finance, healthcare, and telecom, emphasizing North American data residency and OSCP-certified staff.

📋 Description

• Plan and execute end-to-end hardware penetration tests on embedded and IoT devices • Identify, access, and exploit onboard debug interfaces to gain code execution or memory access • Extract and analyze firmware using debug ports, in-circuit flash reads, or chip-off techniques • Intercept and analyze embedded-bus data using logic analyzers and protocol decoders • Perform side-channel analysis and fault injection where in scope • Reverse engineer firmware and embedded binaries to identify logic flaws, hardcoded secrets, and exploitable conditions • Assess physical attack surfaces, tamper resistance, and key/secret storage • Distinguish theoretical from operationally relevant risk • Write technical reports and present findings to technical and non-technical client stakeholders • Advise clients on practical, prioritized remediation • Build and maintain lab tooling, test rigs, and internal methodology • Contribute to research, responsible disclosure, and internal knowledge-sharing • Stay current on hardware attack techniques, embedded architectures, and defensive controls

🎯 Requirements

• Graduate of an Information Security, Computer Science, or Computer/Electrical Engineering degree program, or equivalent hands-on experience • Strong electronics fundamentals; able to read schematics and datasheets and reason about a board • Hands-on soldering ability, including surface-mount (SMD) rework and basic chip removal • Demonstrated experience accessing JTAG, SWD, and UART debug interfaces and extracting firmware from real devices • Comfort with logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters • Firmware reverse-engineering skills and scripting proficiency in Python, plus enough C to read embedded code • Familiarity with ARM/Cortex-M, MIPS, AVR, and RISC-V architectures and RTOS/bare-metal concepts • Clear written and verbal communication • Side-channel/fault-injection experience, RF and wireless work, secure boot/TEE/secure element/HSM knowledge, PCB design familiarity, published CVEs/conference talks/CTF placements/open-source tooling, and relevant certifications are assets

🏖️ Benefits

• Immediate and ongoing offensive security training, mentorship, and professional development • Opportunity to shape the growth, direction, and methodology of Packetlabs' expanding hardware practice • Flexible work environment • Competitive compensation and growth opportunity • Collaboration with a highly skilled team of security professionals

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