At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.
Overview of Opportunity
Two Six Technologies is seeking a Principal Firmware Reverse Engineer for our team in Arlington, Virginia. You will work with a range of clients supporting national security missions. You will become a trusted advisor while learning and performing valuable technical and industry skills. You will expand your reverse engineering and exploit development skills and will transition those findings into capabilities.
Job Responsibilities & Duties
- Take on complex technical problems for which there is often no known answer
- Provide technical leadership and direction on multiple ongoing projects, and interface directly with clients/key stakeholders to present findings and gather design constraints
- Conducting in-depth reverse engineering and vulnerability analysis across various architectures and platforms
- Modeling and analyzing in-memory compiled application behavior to answer customer requirements
- Assist with the forward development of technical solutions
- Leading and managing a team of employees, including setting goals and objectives, developing strategies, and assigning tasks
Qualifications & Skills- Required:
- Bachelor’s (or higher) degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (solid knowledge in RE or VR may substitute for a specific degree)
- Minimum 7 years of experience in firmware development using low-level programming languages (C and at least one assembly language), scripting languages (e.g., Python), and the *nix command line
- Strong familiarity with cybersecurity principles and a strong interest in learning more
- Minimum 2 years of experience with common disassemblers/decompilers and reverse engineering tools (IDA, Ghidra, Binary Ninja)
- Experience with software reverse engineering concepts: static analysis, dynamic analysis, fuzzing techniques
- Experience providing technical/functional direction and developing techniques to implement, ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Experience leading a small technical team of engineers and researchers
- Experience with embedded applications and bare metal RE
- Knowledge of DSP
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Must be willing to obtain and maintain a SCI
Nice If You Have
- Strong familiarity with cybersecurity principles and a strong interest in providing guidance to program staff
- Experience with software reverse engineering concepts: static analysis, dynamic analysis, fuzzing techniques creating intellectual capital, white papers, blogs, etc. to maintain existing and expand new business.
- Familiarity with building or securing embedded devices, other digital systems, and embedded binary reverse engineering (ARM, RTOS, etc.)
- Familiarity with basic cryptography design and implementation concepts
- Previous experience in a client-facing technical role
Clearance Requirements:
- Active US Security clearance of Top Secret level and ability to obtain and maintain SCI
- Must be willing to obtain and maintain a Polygraph clearance
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