Adversarial Security Test Engineer (Embedded Firmware)

Location: Milpitas, California, United States; onsite at the Milpitas office

Salary: $159,800–$271,700 per year

Company

hirify.global develops Flash memory, storage, and advanced memory technology products for global digital infrastructure and supply chains.

What you will do

• Conduct adversarial security testing of firmware, embedded systems, storage products, host tooling, and product ecosystems.
• Evaluate attack surfaces including secure boot, firmware updates, authentication, debug interfaces, cryptographic implementations, provisioning, manufacturing, and RMA pathways.
• Assess exploitability, develop proof-of-concept exploits, validate attack paths, and perform root-cause analysis.
• Research emerging attacks against firmware, embedded systems, storage controllers, hardware/firmware interfaces, and supply chains.
• Build repeatable security testing methodologies, scripts, frameworks, and automation using reverse engineering, fuzzing, exploit development, and dynamic instrumentation.
• Collaborate with firmware, platform security, product engineering, validation, product assurance, PSIRT, and external security partners to communicate findings and remediation guidance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in offensive security, embedded systems security, firmware security, product security testing, or a related discipline.
• Strong experience with penetration testing, fuzzing, reverse engineering, exploitability analysis, low-level debugging, and vulnerability research.
• Strong understanding of secure boot, firmware architectures, embedded systems security, cryptography fundamentals, attack surface analysis, and hardware/firmware trust boundaries.
• Programming or scripting experience in Python, C, C++, or related languages.
• Ability to work onsite at the Milpitas office in California.

Nice to have

• Experience with SSDs, storage controllers, Flash technologies, embedded systems, or silicon products.
• Experience with Ghidra, IDA Pro, Frida, AFL, libFuzzer, or similar tools.
• Experience using AI/LLM technologies, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted code and binary analysis for offensive security research.
• Experience with hardware or firmware security testing and strong technical communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment focused on diversity, belonging, respect, and contribution.
• Paid vacation and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts, employee assistance, legal, pet, and supplemental insurance programs.
• Tuition reimbursement, transit benefits, employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), and potential short-term and long-term incentive participation.