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 within defined scopes and rules of engagement • Identify, access, and exploit JTAG, SWD, UART, and similar debug interfaces • Extract firmware through debug ports, in-circuit flash reads, or chip-off techniques and analyze it for vulnerabilities • Intercept and analyze SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and USB embedded buses using logic analyzers and protocol decoders • Perform side-channel analysis and fault injection where in scope • Reverse engineer firmware and embedded binaries using tools such as Ghidra, IDA, and Binwalk • 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 • Scripting proficiency in Python and enough C to read embedded code • Familiarity with ARM/Cortex-M, MIPS, AVR, and RISC-V architectures • Familiarity with RTOS and bare-metal concepts • Clear written and verbal communication • Side-channel/fault-injection experience, RF and wireless work, secure boot chains, TEEs, secure elements, HSMs, PCB design, published CVEs, conference talks, CTF placements, open-source tooling, and relevant certifications are nice to have or assets

🏖️ Benefits

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

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