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Vulnerability & Exploitation Specialist

Annapolis Junction, MD💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Discovering 0-day vulnerabilities, CVEs, and reverse engineering malware for national security purposes.

Role type

Senior IC vulnerability researcher and exploit developer

Builds

Production-grade vulnerability disclosures and exploit tools for defense customers

Domain

Cybersecurity / National Security / Malware Analysis

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | research | client delivery

Required skills

0-day vulnerability discovery, CVE attribution, fuzzing (AFL, LibFuzzer, ClusterFuzz, oss-fuzz), code analysis (CodeQL, Joern, Semgrep), reverse engineering malware, exploit development, reverse engineering (Ghidra, Ida Pro, Binary Ninja), debugging (GDB, WinDbg), C/C++ development, Python scripting, ARM/MIPS architecture knowledge, Linux variants

Preferred skills

Experience with VSCode, Visual Studio, VIM/Emacs

Responsibilities

Discover and attribute 0-day vulnerabilities and CVEs, perform vulnerability research, write and use fuzzers, analyze code using static analysis tools, reverse engineer malware and code, develop exploits for vulnerabilities, write C/C++ and Python tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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