Vulnerability Researcher, New York APPLIED AI VR RE FUZZING EXPLOIT DEV New York, NY / On Site →

Zealot is deploying AI systems at the center of western cyber operations , backed by tier-1 US VCs and industry leaders. Our team includes alumni of Anthropic, xAI, and Anduril. Soon live with close U.S. allies abroad.

APPLIED AI VR RE FUZZING EXPLOIT DEV

Compensation Competitive base + skin in the game equity Location New York, NY On Site Stage Early-stage startup backed by tier 1 investors. Small, growing team with exceptionally high ownership.

• Help design and build our agentic systems that autonomously perform vulnerability research against real targets: firmware, network stacks, mobile OSes, and IoT.
• Wire emulation (QEMU, Unicorn, Qiling), instrumentation (Frida, DynamoRIO), fuzzing, and exploit primitives into tool interfaces for agents.
• Build the evaluation and benchmarking infrastructure that tells us whether any of it is actually working.
• 2–3+ years across systems programming (C/C++, Rust) and ML infrastructure.
• Comfort with binary analysis, memory corruption classes, and modern mitigations (ASLR, CFI, PAC, MTE).
• Hands-on work with agent harnesses — orchestration, tool-use, eval loops — in production or at benchmark scale.
• Fluency with at least one emulation stack (QEMU, Unicorn, Qiling, PANDA, FirmAE).
• Strong RE / debugger chops (GDB, IDA or Ghidra) and the patience to use them.

Nice to Have

• Pwn-heavy CTF experience (DEF CON finals, PPP, DiceGang, Shellphish, Theori, Team Atlanta).
• Public CVEs, conference talks, or AIxCC / CGC participation.
• Kernel or baseband RE.
• That requirements list is what the fully-formed version of this role looks like. It's not a filter. If you're sharp, hungry, and funny, apply anyway, even if half the bullets read like a foreign language today.
• Tech can be learned. Spirit cannot. We've watched the right people pick up binary exploitation from scratch and outship ten-year veterans inside a year.
• Tell us what you've taught yourself recently and what you'd tear into first here.

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