Principal Cybersecurity Researcher

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world's most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what's possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

Two Six Technologies is looking to add a Principal Cybersecurity Researcher to our team in Arlington, Virginia. In this role, you will develop new capabilities and infrastructure in hardware, firmware, and software reverse engineering, bring expertise in network analysis, and will find security vulnerabilities in complicated systems of systems.

Responsibilities Include:

• Take on complex technical problems for which there is often no known answer

• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to align capability development roadmaps and complete the transfer of vulnerability research prototypes into operational fieldable solutions

• Develop automated solutions to complex reverse engineering and vulnerability research problems

• Create scalable infrastructure for working with a broad range of hardware and software architectures and tech stacks

• Contribute to the forward development of technical solutions

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with both systems and scripting languages (e.g., C, Go, Rust, Python) and Linux

• Minimum of 5 years experience executing cybersecurity principles and a strong interest in learning more

• Experience with static analysis or software reverse engineering

• Experience performing network traffic analysis of standard and custom networking protocols

• Experience leading a small technical team of engineers and/or researchers

• Active U.S. Security clearance of Secret level and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI

• Must be willing to obtain and maintain a Polygraph clearance

Nice if you have:

• Experience building or securing embedded devices and other digital systems

• Experience with dynamic analysis, fuzzing techniques, and debugging

• Experience with automated program analysis and symbolic execution

• Experience with Binary Ninja or Ghidra API

• Experience in a client-facing technical role

• Experience with embedded binary reverse engineering (ARM, RTOS, etc.), including using both emulation and hardware debugging tools for dynamic analysis

• Bachelor's (or higher) degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

Clearance Requirements:

• Active U.S. Security clearance of Secret level and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI
• Must be willing to obtain and maintain a Polygraph clearance

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