Senior Security Research Engineer

Responsibilities: 

• Research, analyze, and assess attack surface and vulnerability data 

• Develop tailored and actionable mitigation strategies and plans to address vulnerability risk 

• Work with new and emerging vulnerability data to identify potential attack paths in critical systems. 

• Document, develop and present mitigation strategies in web applications, databases, standalone applications, etc. 

• Analyze the root cause of vulnerabilities and support the prioritization of mitigations based on risk and return on mitigation 

• Provide mitigation strategies that prioritize risk against level of effort for multiple systems or organizations 

• Catalog mitigation advice, challenges, and trends and patterns 

• Patch diffing and reverse engineering with tools such as Ghidra, IDA, etc.  

• Provide subject matter expertise on tailored mitigations to resolve and remediate vulnerabilities on targeted technologies 

• Work in fast-paced startup like environment with shifting priorities to handle and maintain balance with multiple stakeholders. 

• Conduct research to assess and create software patches and configuration changes to be applied to varied software, middleware and hardware 

• Provide assessment including security, system, and business impact of vulnerabilities 

• Must be able to think ahead to avoid business outages based on the lab results 

• Analyze vulnerability data and support management of identified vulnerabilities, including tracking, remediation, and reporting 

Desired Skills: 

• Excellent understanding of network, system and application security 

• Experience with IDA Pro, Ghidra, or similar binary analysis tool 

• Knowledge of various vulnerability scanning solutions is a plus 

• Excellent written and verbal communication 

• Graduate with preferable 4 years degree or at least 3-year degree with computer science and information technology background 

• Secure architecture designs and use of detection/protection mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS, full-packet capture technologies) to mitigate risk 

• A solid understanding of industry best practices for Patch Management  

• Specific demonstrated experience mapping business processes and comparing those processes to industry best practices 

• Background around using or understanding of security tools would be plus 

• Solid understanding of the security implications of a patch on web applications, Windows, Linux, Mac OS operating systems 

• Thorough testing of patches in a non-production environment  

• Have working knowledge of basic operation systems commands and tooling - Windows, Linux, Mac OS 

• Should have very good communication and articulation skills 

• Ability and ready to learn new technology and should be a good team player 

What you get to do: 

Work within Threat Research, detection and response teams and analysts to define the priority, design the solution, and contribute to build framework for patching vulnerabilities