Hardware Reverse Engineer (Embedded Security)

Location: Herndon, Virginia, United States; onsite

Salary: $111,983–$167,974 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops and deploys innovative security products for complex challenges and government customers.

What you will do

• Reverse engineer complex embedded systems, processor modules, digital boards, firmware, binaries, and system architectures.
• Identify communication channels, firmware memory, functional behaviors, and vulnerabilities in hardened systems.
• Reconstruct schematics from physical boards and develop hardware-in-the-loop environments to test and emulate device behavior.
• Conduct protocol and signal analysis using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, JTAG, and UART.
• Rapidly prototype technologies for hardware analysis, exploitation, and vulnerability research.
• Use agentic AI systems and automated workflows to accelerate PCB analysis, component identification, and hardware red-teaming.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience developing for embedded systems, high-speed data devices, or system-on-modules.
• Experience analyzing and reverse engineering x86, ARM, or AVR binaries and developing or integrating embedded bootloaders.
• Programming experience in C, C++, and Python, plus development for AMD/Xilinx, Altera, or Microsemi FPGA devices.
• Experience creating wiring diagrams and schematics and debugging embedded systems with JTAG, UART, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
• Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI clearance required.

Nice to have

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, or a related scientific field.
• Custom PCB development with Altium and knowledge of RF, wired, and wireless protocols.
• Experience with USB, SPI, I2C, 1-Wire, Ethernet, PCI-Express, 802.11, Bluetooth, or ZigBee.
• IoT product hacking experience and exposure to AI-assisted hardware security tools.
• Experience leading technical employees or engineering teams and working in small R&D teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative research and development environment involving engineers, reverse engineers, security researchers, and scientists.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus life and disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits and paid leave.
• Tuition assistance and professional development opportunities.