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Cisco Talos Intelligence Group is one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams in the world. Talos defends Cisco customers against known and emerging threats, discovers new vulnerabilities in common software, and interdicts threats in the wild before they can further harm the internet at large.
What You'll Do
If you enjoy vulnerability research, crash analysis, reverse engineering, and researching new techniques and writing tools to automate these tasks, this job is for you. This Senior Researcher position with Cisco Talos Vulnerability Discovery and Research Team is available to remote and international workers.
Security research including development of tools for vulnerability discovery, analysis, and mitigation. Development of fuzzers and static analysis tools to identify new vulnerabilities in software. Development of static and run-time analysis tools to figure out root cause and input conditions related to a vulnerability. Vulnerability triage and proof of concept exploit development to support the creation of detection content. Additional responsibilities include helping users and other analysts with setup, installation, and usage of the vulnerability research tools and demonstrating leadership in the security community through publishing open-source tools, papers, presentations, and blog posts.
Who You Are
Perform security analysis to discover new vulnerabilities in software and/or embedded systems.
Create tools for the discovery and triage of vulnerabilities.
Write detailed technical advisories on new vulnerabilities.
Develop proof of concept exploits for testing IPS and IDS effectiveness.
Perform patch analysis to find and trigger vulnerabilities.
Reverse engineer binary applications, protocols, and formats.
Analyze zero-day vulnerabilities and emerging security threats and technologies.
Demonstrate leadership within the security community.
Minimum Qualifications
3+ years of experience in vulnerability research or a closely related area, e.g. exploit, fuzzing or mitigation development
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cyber Security, or other tech-related degree (or equivalent due to work experience)
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years’ experience with vulnerability research
3+ years’ experience with binary auditing and reverse engineering, and with related tools such as IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, Ghidra, etc. and with plugin development.
3+ years’ experience with C/C++, and a scripting language (e.g., Python), and assembly (e.g., x86/x64, ARM, etc.)
3+ years’ experience with common vulnerabilities and methods of exploitation, such as memory corruption, web application exploitation, file format vulnerabilities, protocol-based weaknesses, etc.
Published technical contributions to the security community (e.g. CVEs, security advisories, blog posts (0-day/n-day analysis), open source contributions, academic publications, etc.)
Candidates with experience in vulnerability research in industrial control systems are encouraged to apply
Knowledge of common file format and network protocol structures.
Ability to work independently with minimum supervision and to tackle additional tasks as the need arises.
Why Cisco Secure
We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.
Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.
We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!
There are so many amazing reasons to join Cisco. Learn more [1] here!
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