New College Grad: Vulnerability Researcher

Vulnerability researchers at Raytheon CODEX analyze systems to understand how they work and how they behave when they break. Candidates must be able to play both sides of the fence, both developing and defeating new and advanced security techniques. Projects will be undertaken in small teams with close coordination with customers. All of our engineers write code, but many of our engineers spend as much time taking systems apart as building new ones. A typical day may involve studying disassembly or writing Python to audit a piece of C++ code.

• Anticipated start date for this position is May 2022.
• The place of performance for this work can be State College, Pennsylvania, or Arlington or Dulles, Virginia.

We take our work and our fun seriously. We are passionate about engineering, and we prove it by funding internal R&D concepts from early inception through product development and customer delivery. We believe the best ideas stand on their own merits, and we fund ideas from our most junior engineers to our most seasoned staff. We reward excellence early and often through monetary awards, raises, and promotions. We keep ourselves sharp through weekly engineer-driven technical talks, and we team up regularly to compete in CTFs. Show up in our Arlington office around 2 or 3pm and join us for teatime and specialty coffee pour-overs. Or participate with a few of us as we play a round of table tennis. On Thursdays we have lunch brought in from one of the many great area restaurants, paid for by the company.

Security Clearance & Other Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position will need a Top Secret/SCI U.S. Security Clearance within 1 year of start date.
• U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position will require the ability to access US only data systems.

Requirements:

• Experience with C or C++
• Understanding of OS internals (any major OS)
• Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others)
• Experience using reverse engineering tools such as Radare2, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or IDA Pro

Desired Requirements:

• Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA (Please upload an unofficial transcript when applying)
• Experience with the following:
• Experience developing embedded systems
• Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others)
• Understanding of exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR
• Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg
• Experience with modern C++ development, such as RAII, C++11, and C++14.

Required Education:
Graduating by Summer 2022 with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber, or other related field.
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Raytheon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.