Staff Security Engineer (IoT Security)

Location: Tysons, Virginia, United States; office attendance required 4 days a week

Salary: $167,500–$180,500 USD base salary per year

Company

hirify.global provides an intelligently connected property platform covering security, video surveillance, access control, automation, energy management, and wellness solutions.

What you will do

• Perform IoT penetration testing, including firmware extraction, reverse engineering, vulnerability discovery, and security mechanism analysis.
• Conduct threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and security research across applications, platforms, and systems.
• Use manual and automated techniques to assess risks and circumvent security controls in devices and applications.
• Manage the deployment, integration, configuration, and improvement of IoT security solutions and enterprise security documentation.
• Document risk impacts, triage issues reported by external parties, and drive remediation.
• Partner with infrastructure, application, product, and other stakeholders to reduce security and privacy risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of information security experience focused on offensive security, penetration testing, or vulnerability research.
• Experience testing IoT, embedded, or firmware-based environments and analyzing embedded Linux systems and firmware images.
• Knowledge of embedded system design, ARM architectures, and hardware debugging equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
• Familiarity with UART, I2C, SPI, JTAG, IDA Pro, Ghidra, and/or Binary Ninja.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Development experience with embedded systems.
• Exposure to x86, RISC-V, or other CPU architectures.
• Information security certifications or the ability to obtain them.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, team-oriented work environment with in-person collaboration.
• Medical plans with company subsidies and a company-contributed HSA.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave.
• Company-paid disability and life insurance.