Senior Specialist, Security Research Engineer

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Security Software Research Engineer
Job Code: 38328
Job Location: Remote
Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off.

Working at Trenchant means working alongside the best security researchers and product engineers from across the security research and intelligence communities. You will be engaged on the most challenging problems in the toughest environments and delivering solutions supporting the cutting edge of cyber security research. We are looking for team members across a range of roles and disciplines demonstrating an eye for security, to serve as key contributors on the Global Engineering team. The candidate must possess first-class System Engineering, Networking, and infosec skills and an eye for organization.

Trenchant is an elite global team of engineers and security researchers charged with building world-class computer security products. Trenchant’s expertise is the by-product of the L3Harris acquisition of two highly-regarded information security businesses – Azimuth Security and Linchpin Labs. United under Trenchant, we are a key component of L3Harris’ Cyber Division. We are a trusted, discrete partner furnishing security products, consultancy, training and integration services to allied security, defense, and law enforcement agencies.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborate with security researchers to adopt working research output into commercial products.
• Transform vulnerability writeups and proof of concept code into mature capabilities.
• Effectively communicate status and technical challenges using language that is appropriate to your audience.
• Participate in planning and prioritization activities with members of the commercial arm of the organization.
• Provide engineering support to customer reported issues.
• Provide guidance to less experienced engineers in technical fields relevant to the platform and the domains of cyber security and software engineering.
• Monitor industry trends and publicly disclosed techniques for incorporation into our products.
• Ability to obtain and maintain security clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
  
  

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Working knowledge of OS and application vulnerability classes.
• Proven experience analyzing malware samples, producing vulnerability proofs of concept, and understanding mitigations provided by software patches.
• Comfortable with C programming, memory management concepts, assembly languages, and private (undocumented) APIs.
• Demonstrated proficiency in all aspects of a mobile platform (Android or iOS) including OS internals, mobile ecosystem languages (Objective-C, Swift, Java, and/or Kotlin), and system security mechanisms.
• Demonstrated proficiency using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, or Hopper and dynamic tools such as Frida or ADB.
• Demonstrated proficiency using common software development tools such as git, gitlab CI, and cmake.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous or incompletely defined problems and resolve them through consultation with appropriate stakeholders.
• Demonstrated a collaborative and team-oriented mindset for accomplishing goals and a bias to action.
• Substantial experience in CNO development/offensive cyber security.
• Has/had a TS clearance with ability to obtain SCI access.
• Experience working in an air-gapped development environment.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and the Greater D.C, Denver, or NYC areas is $111,500 - $207,500. The salary range for this role in Colorado state, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York state, and Vermont is $97,000 - $180,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.