Senior Vulnerability Researcher & Reverse Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Fort Meade, MD, United States. On-site role with limited TDY travel as mission requires.

Salary: $155,000–$175,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global supports national security and critical civilian missions through advanced technology, cybersecurity, and mission-focused engineering.

What you will do

• Conduct advanced vulnerability research and reverse engineering on target software, firmware, hardware, and compiled applications.
• Discover zero-day vulnerabilities through fuzzing, manual code review, and dynamic and static analysis.
• Use disassemblers, debuggers, and binary analysis tools to analyze applications, architectures, protocols, and security mechanisms.
• Develop proof-of-concept exploits to validate findings and assess operational utility.
• Document technical vulnerability details and exploitation methodologies for technical and operational audiences.
• Brief capability developers and collaborate with development teams to translate vulnerability research into operational tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of related professional experience, or a Master’s degree with 8+ years of related professional experience.
• Proficiency with disassemblers or decompilers, including IDA Pro, Ghidra, and/or Binary Ninja.
• Strong understanding of x86, x64, and ARM assembly language and processor architectures.
• Practical experience with WinDbg, GDB, and/or LLDB and dynamic analysis tools.
• Demonstrated capability discovering vulnerabilities in compiled C, C++, and Rust applications.
• Understanding of memory corruption, logic flaws, race conditions, and other common vulnerability classes.
• Proficiency with AFL, libFuzzer, Honggfuzz, and corpus management.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Ruby, or a similar language for automation and analysis.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative culture centered on helpfulness, honesty, humility, eagerness, and a strong work ethic.
• Health insurance, life insurance, paid time off, and holiday pay.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Retirement benefits and learning and development opportunities.
• Additional optional benefit elections may be available depending on the position.