Associate Principal Malware Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote in the United States

Salary: $182,000

Company

hirify.global provides cybersecurity technology, threat intelligence, and expert services to protect critical infrastructure and industrial control systems.

What you will do

• Identify and assess sophisticated threats targeting industrial control systems and critical infrastructure.
• Conduct advanced static and dynamic reverse engineering and deobfuscation of ICS malware, software, firmware, and embedded systems.
• Create Yara signatures and develop novel ICS-specific threat detections with detection engineers.
• Write customer-facing technical reports and internal documentation translating malware findings into operational impact.
• Refine the malware analysis pipeline, methods, procedures, tooling, and workflows.
• Collaborate with hunters, intelligence analysts, and detection engineers while serving as a technical advisor on complex analysis and detection questions.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in malware analysis, reverse engineering, or a related ICS/OT cybersecurity discipline.
• Advanced proficiency in static and dynamic malware reverse engineering using disassemblers, debuggers, and decompilers such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, and x64dbg.
• Experience analyzing ICS-specific software, firmware, and embedded systems.
• Strong Yara signature development skills and experience building detection analytics for novel malware and attack techniques.
• Ability to write clear, persuasive, customer-facing technical reports on complex malware findings.
• Experience contributing to or improving a malware analysis pipeline, tooling, or workflow.
• Ability to collaborate with detection engineers, hunters, and intelligence analysts on cross-team technical problems.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with ICS/OT protocols, threat groups, and the broader critical infrastructure threat landscape.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, mission-driven team spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC.
• Competitive equity package.
• Comprehensive benefits plan.
• Employment is contingent on passing a background check.
• Equal opportunity employment in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.