Engineering Roles

You’ll tackle challenging reverse-engineering problems. Sometimes your targets are Windows or Linux binaries with standard x86 or ARM instruction sets, but mostly you’re deep in firmware, in embedded systems where the instruction architecture is non-standard, the tooling is sparse, and you have to roll your own emulation or instrumentation. Sometimes the problem is a protocol, a state machine, or hardware-level behavior, and you’ll work from datasheets, register traces, or the physics of how the system responds under stress. Your toolkit spans C, Python, Rust, assembly, and whatever domain-specific language the problem demands. The standard is precision: every behavior you characterize is verified, every tool you build must work.

You’ll spend some of your time exploring novel targets independently, developing your own techniques to overcome bottlenecks. You’ll spend some of your time building tools that increase your team’s velocity. And you’ll document what you find with enough clarity that vulnerability researchers can act on it.