Senior Specialist, Security Research Engineer

🕒 July 17

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $111.5k - $207.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📚 Research Engineer

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L3Harris Technologies

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10,000+ employees

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

L3Harris Technologies is a global aerospace and defense technology innovator, specializing in providing advanced solutions across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. The company focuses on delivering capabilities in areas such as autonomous systems, command and control, electronic warfare, and resilient communications, supporting both national security and commercial markets. Committed to innovation, L3Harris Technologies aims to advance technologies that enable their customers to effectively tackle the most complex challenges.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with security researchers to adopt working research output into commercial products • Transform vulnerability writeups and proof of concept code into mature capabilities • Effectively communicate status and technical challenges using language that is appropriate to your audience • Participate in planning and prioritization activities with members of the commercial arm of the organization • Provide engineering support to customer reported issues • Provide guidance to less experienced engineers in technical fields relevant to the platform and the domains of cyber security and software engineering • Monitor industry trends and publicly disclosed techniques for incorporation into our products • Ability to obtain and maintain security clearance

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience • Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience • In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience • Working knowledge of OS and application vulnerability classes • Proven experience analyzing malware samples, producing vulnerability proofs of concept, and understanding mitigations provided by software patches • Comfortable with C programming, memory management concepts, assembly languages, and private (undocumented) APIs • Demonstrated proficiency in all aspects of a mobile platform (Android or iOS) including OS internals, mobile ecosystem languages (Objective-C, Swift, Java, and/or Kotlin), and system security mechanisms • Demonstrated proficiency using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, or Hopper and dynamic tools such as Frida or ADB • Demonstrated proficiency using common software development tools such as git, gitlab CI, and cmake • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or a related field • Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous or incompletely defined problems and resolve them through consultation with appropriate stakeholders • Demonstrated a collaborative and team-oriented mindset for accomplishing goals and a bias to action • Substantial experience in CNO development/offensive cyber security • Has/had a TS clearance with ability to obtain SCI access • Experience working in an air-gapped development environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and disability insurance • 401(k) match • Flexible spending accounts • EAP • Education assistance • Parental leave • Paid time off • Company-paid holidays