Research Innovations
Senior Vulnerability Researcher
San Antonio, TX +2 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Location
- San Antonio, TX
Melbourne, FL
St. Petersburg, FL - Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Reverse Engineering/Vulnerability Research roles
About the job
Research vulnerabilities in complex systems and develop exploits, proof-of-concepts, and tooling to support security research for defense and homeland security systems.
What you'll do
- Research vulnerabilities across operating systems, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, embedded systems, and applications; reverse engineer components to identify attack surfaces.
- Develop exploits, mitigation bypasses, proof-of-concepts, and research tooling and emulation environments.
- Collaborate with other researchers on security research.
What they ask for
- Active US Top Secret security clearance and ability to upgrade to TS/SCI Special Access Program access.
- Demonstrated success finding impactful vulnerabilities in real-world targets.
- Strong knowledge of OS internals, low-level systems, exploit development, and reverse engineering.
- Experience developing exploits and bypassing modern mitigations; proficiency with Python and C.
Nice to have
- Research in hypervisor, firmware, embedded, mobile, or wireless security.
- Experience with fuzzing, symbolic execution, or advanced program analysis; public research, talks, publications, or open-source contributions.
Tools
Python, C
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