Clarity Innovations
Senior Reverse Engineering/Vulnerability Research Engineer
$122K–$208K
Herndon, VA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Location
- Herndon, VA
Herndon, Virginia, United States
About the job
Conduct vulnerability research and reverse engineering across systems, identify and exploit weaknesses, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical partners.
What you'll do
- Perform vulnerability research and reverse engineering for customer tasks, using static and dynamic analysis tools.
- Develop exploits based on discovered vulnerabilities, including defeating security mitigations.
- Communicate research findings and mentor fellow security researchers.
What they ask for
- LLM-assisted reverse engineering or vulnerability research experience.
- Static and dynamic UNIX reverse engineering experience.
- Exploit development experience defeating modern security mitigations.
- UNIX kernel reverse engineering or vulnerability research experience.
Nice to have
- Windows reverse engineering experience.
- Experience writing custom reverse-engineering tools, hardware reverse engineering or vulnerability research, or integrating productized capabilities into CNO tools.
Pay
$122,100 - $207,600 (USD; base salary)
Tools
UNIX, Windows
AI focus
LLM-assisted reverse engineering and vulnerability research.
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