Malware Researcher

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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ActiveFence

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201 - 500 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $400M Series B on 2021-07

Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence

ActiveFence is a Trust and Safety provider for online platforms, protecting platforms and their users from malicious behavior and content. Trust and Safety teams of all sizes rely on ActiveFence to keep their users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety and exploitation, disinformation, hate speech, terror, nudity, fraud, and more. We offer a full stack of capabilities with our deep intelligence research, AI-driven harmful content detection, and online content moderation platform. Protecting over three billion users globally everyday in over 100 languages, ActiveFence lets people interact and thrive online.

📋 Description

• Conduct in-depth Android malware research and reverse engineering • Detect and document emerging Android malware trends and attack vectors • Analyze Android applications for malicious behavior • Write detection rules and develop automation processes for Android malware identification • Collaborate with team members and share knowledge across departments • Perform static and dynamic analysis of Android malware samples • Document findings and contribute to threat intelligence reports

🎯 Requirements

• At least 3 years of proven experience in research in Android, Windows, Mac, or Linux; low-level reverse engineering; or development • Proficiency in one or more of Java, Python, JavaScript, or C/C++ • Experience with reverse engineering tools and decompilers such as JADX, JEB, IDA Pro, or Ghidra • Familiarity with instrumentation tools such as Frida • Familiarity with debugging tools such as GDB or LLDB • Understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols • Valid international government-issued photo ID, such as a current passport or international driver's license, for identity verification and global client interaction • Experience with Android development preferred • Familiarity with Android frameworks including Flutter, React Native, or Unity preferred • Understanding of Android application security preferred • Familiarity with the Android malware ecosystem and techniques preferred • Experience building automated tools preferred • Experience writing detailed reports in English preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote/hybrid work arrangement • Opportunity to work on Android malware research and threat intelligence • Knowledge sharing across departments • Global client interaction