Senior Specialist, Security Research Engineer TS/SCI - Palm Bay, FL

Job Title: Senior Sec Research Engrg

Job Code: 15882

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Description:

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

Essential Functions:

• Vulnerability Research and Reverse Engineering complex software and firmware targets, ranging from typical Windows/Linux binaries to embedded firmware running on non-traditional compute processors and operating systems.
• Experience with computer architectures and system internals like boot processes, system integrity components, transport busses, and proprietary communication protocols.
• Performing vulnerability weaponization, exploit development, and payload development.
• Experience with operating system internals such as process management, memory management, security mechanisms, and thread management.
• Working in multi-disciplinary teams to tackle challenging problems for a wide variety of technologies.
• Experience with security and network fundamentals, such as cryptography, authentication, access control, and network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP, etc.).
• Experience with IDA Pro, Ghidra, or similar binary analysis tools.
• Programming experience in scripted languages such as Python and compiled languages such as C.
• Understanding of Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) CONOPS.
• Work is 100% on-site and cannot be accomplished remotely.

Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 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.
• Top Secret/SCI security clearance required.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with low level architectures such as x86/64, ARM, PowerPC, MIPS and others.
• Experience developing custom emulation solutions to enable dynamic analysis using tools such as QEMU.
• Experience writing plugins for decompilers such as IDA and Ghidra.
• Analyzing protocols or message structures to understand undocumented interfaces.
• Proficient in agile development methodologies for efficient collaboration and iterative development.
• Experience with hardware debug interfaces such as JTAG, UART, and I2C.
• Experience with mechanisms of extracting Firmware from hardware.