Job DescriptionCyber System Exploitation Researcher
When you join our team as a Cyber System Exploitation Researcher, you'll be leading the development of cyber security tools and techniques. You'll be reverse engineering and exploiting software and hardware systems important to U.S. government operations and critical to the defense of our nation. Your main areas of research will include cyber tool prototyping and technical analysis of offensive or defensive cyber tools and systems, automated vulnerability discovery, reverse engineering, software protection mechanisms, static analysis, and dynamic instrumentation. Once you're on our team, you will communicate your research to non-domain experts through your writing, public presentations, and hand-on training sessions.
Requirements:+ PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline or MS and 3+ years of directly related experience or BS and 7+ years of related experience
Desired Technical Skills (Familiarity with all, Expertise in some):+ Version Control Systems (Git)
+ Dissassemblers/Decompilers (Ghidra, IDAPro)
+ Debuggers (WinDbg, GDB)
+ Programming Languages (C/C++, Python)
+ Infrastructure/Container Provisioning/Orchestration Systems (Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker)
+ Network Protocol Analysis (Wireshark, Tcpdump)
+ Emulator/Virtualization Technologies (VMWare, QEMU)
+ Operating System Internals
+ Reverse Engineering of Embedded Systems Firmware, Malicious Code, Mobile Applications, and More
+ Vulnerability Assessment
+ Statistics and Metrics
+ SAT/SMT Solvers
+ Symbolic Execution
+ Data-flow Analysis for Compiled Binaries
+ Binary Intermediate Representations
+ Binary Translation
+ Compiler Construction
+ Anti-debugging/Anti-instrumentation Techniques
+ Network and Host Security Products
Recent Graduate Hiring Range: $145,200-$170,000
Experienced Hiring Range: $145,200-$220,000
Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including-but not limited to-the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
- MIT-funded pension
- Matching 401K
- Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
- Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
- Mentorship programs
- A range of work-life balance options
- ... and much more!
Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks.
Requisition ID: 42178
