Affinity

4506 Reverse Engineer

Affinity • $110K — $130K *
Fort George G Meade, MD 20755In-Person
Information Technology
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Qualifications

  • Four or more years of experience in a Reverse Engineering role.
  • Four years of experience with programming languages such as C/C++ and Python.
  • Proficient with static and dynamic reverse engineering techniques.
  • Skilled in analyzing compiled and interpreted programming languages.
  • Proficient with analysis tools like IDA Pro, Ghidra, and PE Explorer.
  • Familiar with dynamic tools for monitoring malware behavior such as Wireshark.
  • Ability to write detailed technical reports and present findings to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Perform analysis on malicious software to determine its nature and potential impact.
  • Reverse-engineer compiled executable code to understand its interactions and intelligence.
  • Evaluate malware attack capabilities to assess threat potential.
  • Collaborate with intelligence professionals to interpret threats and prepare reports.
  • Provide technical expertise on hardware and software for malware analysis.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to support National Security missions.
  • Work with a dedicated team of cybersecurity experts.
  • Engagement in military intelligence projects.
  • Access to advanced analysis tools and resources.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
Full Job Description
4506 Reverse Engineer
4506 | Top Secret

Job Description:

OVERVIEW:

We are seeking a talented Malware Reverse Engineer who is passionate about supporting National Security missions. The ideal candidate appreciates partnering with our customer and a group of cybersecurity experts to build environments and analyze the threat actor intent of malware in support of military intelligence missions.

GENERAL DUTIES:

  • Perform surface, dynamic, static, manual, and automated analysis on malicious software to determine its nature, capabilities, and potential impact.
  • Analyze and reverse-engineer compiled executable code to understand its interactions with the environment and gain intelligence on its function and behavior.
  • Evaluate malware attack capabilities, including transmission characteristics, attributes, and the intended purpose of the software, to understand its threat potential.
  • Work closely with intelligence professionals to interpret the threat's intentions and capabilities and prepare detailed reports and studies on these findings.
  • Provide technical expertise on the necessary hardware and software environments for effective malware triage and analysis.


REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Four or more years of experience in a Reverse Engineering role
  • Four years of experience with program languages such as C/C++ and Python. - Four years of experience with machine architecture, operating system internals, file system and memory management, and assembly language (x64, ARM, MIPS).
  • Proficient with static and dynamic reverse engineering techniques such as disassembly/decompilation, imports, strings, process monitoring, file system monitoring, network traffic capture, debugging, sandboxing, unpacking and deobfuscation.
  • Skilled at analyzing compiled and interpreted programming languages.
  • Experience with tools like IDA Pro, Ghidra, Hopper, Binary Ninja, Frida, PE Explorer, objdump, etc.
  • Familiar with dynamic tools used for monitoring malware behavior. Experience with tools like kernel and process debuggers, process explorer, Wireshark.
  • Familiarity with automated analysis systems (e.g. Cuckoo Sandbox) and open-source intelligence resources (e.g. VirusTotal) for initial triage and quick identification of well-known malware.
  • Ability to write detailed technical reports on analysis findings and to present reports to stakeholders. Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework, TTPs, IOCs, and CVEs to provide standard nomenclature.
  • Familiarity with threat sharing platforms (MISP) and threat intelligence interchange standards (STIX, TAXII).


DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification
  • Experience and Knowledge: Six or more years of experience in a Reverse Engineering role.
  • Malware sandbox analysis and forensics
  • Ability to construct analysis sandboxes and to simulate necessary infrastructure to enable malware samples to execute (such as simulating Internet connectivity and DNS resolution).
  • Ability to perform forensic analysis of the sandbox environment to detect changes made by the malware sample during dynamic analysis. This includes detecting new, deleted, or modified files, changes to system settings, configurations, or registry entries, creation of new user accounts, open network ports, etc.
  • Ability to use hex editors to modify malware samples in order to bypass anti-reversing logic. This includes logic that detects attached debuggers, virtual environments, excessive delays in process execution, etc.
  • Ability to capture network and signals transmissions and to analyze the content of those transmissions. To include wired and wireless transmissions (Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, RF, etc.).
  • Hardware reverse engineering.
  • Ability to identify components and pathways attached to printed circuit boards (data and power).
  • Ability to identify and map "pin-out" configurations of chips.
  • Ability to connect to and monitor signals in and out of chips and convert those into binary data, ability to dump firmware images from hardware devices.
  • Ability to identify hardware analysis requirements and tooling needs for hardware reversing.
  • Ability to identify hardware anti-tamper mechanisms to prevent bricking or destruction of the device.


CLEARANCE:

  • Active Top Secret clearance minimum required


Job Details

City : Fort Meade

State : Maryland

About Affinity

Affinity’s patented technology structures and analyzes millions of data points across emails, calendars, and third-party sources to offer users the tools they need to automatically manage their most valuable relationships, prioritize important connections, and discover untapped opportunities. Affinity uses artificial intelligence to analyze relationship strength and illuminate the best paths to warm introductions. The platform also offers a holistic view of users’ networks in a centralized, automatically updated database without any manual upkeep. Founded in 2014, Affinity is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Affinity has raised $120M to date and is backed by leading investors including Menlo Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, 8VC and MassMutual Ventures. It has over 2,700 customers in 70 countries, including venture capital firms such as Bain Capital Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, private equity firms such as SoftBank Group, investment bankers such as Woodside Capital Partners, financial services firms such as Fidelity Investments, real estate companies such as Tishman Speyer, insurers such as American Family Insurance and enterprises such as Nike, Qualcomm and Twilio. Affinity has been named in Fortune Magazine's Best Workplaces, Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces and editor's number one pick, the Data Breakthrough Award, BIG Innovation Award and others.
Learn more about Affinity
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Founded
2014
* Ladders Estimates

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