Principal Vulnerability Researcher

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Principal Vulnerability Researcher to join our team! In this role you will get to lead and mentor a team of Vulnerability Researchers.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Leading a team of other researchers to analyze complex systems for weaknesses and vulnerabilities

• Developing proof-of-concept exploits and other related tools

• Mentoring junior Vulnerability Researchers

• Interfacing with government counterparts

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• ​Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline (equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of degree) plus 10 years of experience or a Master's degree plus 8 years of experience.

• Active TS Clearance is required

• Minimum of 10+ years of relevant work experience with experience leading teams

• Reverse engineering across various architectures and platforms; including x86/64, ARM, MIPS, etc.

• Experience with disassemblers (IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, or Ghidra)

• Knowledge of common exploitation countermeasures (DEP, ASLR, etc.)

• Knowledge of countermeasure defeats (ROP programming)

• Researching operating system and applications to understand strengths and weaknesses in the design and implementation

• Modeling of in-memory compiled application behavior

• Ability to use a scripting language (Python, etc.)

• Software development using C or C++

• Development experience with RTOS

• Self-motivated and passionate about supporting the U.S. cybersecurity mission

• Demonstrated leadership skills, organizational capability and management techniques

• A personality and communication skills that inspire teams to create and build amazing things

• Strong orientation toward both details and results, an understanding of customer relationships, and an ability to discern and read between the lines

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Experience with software protection and binary analysis

• Familiarity with modern exploitation techniques, tools, and methodologies

• Experience with hypervisors

• Ability to analyze network protocols throughout all layers of the network stack

• Background in software engineering and architecture

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