Hardware Exploitation Engineer (TS/SCI)- Senior & Mid at Vexterra Group – Bethesda, Maryland

Vexterra Group is currently searching for a TS/SCI cleared Hardware Exploitation Engineer to provide the following engineering support:

• Conduct technical hardware exploitation and examination of various digital media devices.
• Conduct reverse engineering, failure analysis, and vulnerability analysis of hardware to identify exploitation opportunities
• Modify hardware to either enable forensic analysis of the media or to change the functionality of the hardware for desired purposes
• Perform inspection, imaging, decapsulation, deprocessing, and other activities related to hardware reverse engineering and exploitation in a state­ of-the-art microelectronics exploitation laboratory
• Development and maintain frameworks, processes, design patterns, techniques, tools, and standards for conducting hardware exploitation of digital media
• Serve as a subject matter expert for IC/DOD customers
• Prepare clear and concise technical reports to a wide range of audiences
• Using knowledge gained through the application of reverse­ engineering and other research techniques, engineer low-level C and assembly.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineer, and Mathematics (STEM) discipline and at least (5) five years of related experience.
• Must be Department of Defense (DoD) 8570 Compliant, IAT Level II.
• Solid understanding of programming language and operating system concepts and experience with assembly languages, such as, C, C++, Python, Perl, etc.
• Experience requiring skills in reverse engineering of embedded systems with proprietary operating systems for the purpose of introducing functionally to a fielded system.
• Experience requiring knowledge of C and Assembler software engineering for embedded platforms that run commercial and/or custom operating systems.
• Working experience in Microprocessors/Architectures: ARM, MIPS, RISC, PowerPC, XScale, StrongARM, x86.
• Contractor personnel shall be required to complete and pass a written test, prior to beginning work on the contract.

Security Requirements:

• Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance w/ a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.

Highly Desired Experience:

• Experience Operating Systems: VxWorks, Integrity, Embedded Linux, JunOS, Linux, Unix, Windows Embedded. Experience with RTOS desired.
• Experience IDEs: Tornado, Workbench, VxSim, MULTI, TirneMachine, TraceEdge, Eagle CAD
• Experience in Hardware Tools and Debuggers: Green Hills Probe, SuperTrace Probe, Slingshot, spectrum analyzer, logic analyzer, JTAG, Agilent Technologies equipment.
• Working experience in Software Tools and Debuggers: Wireshark, IDA Pro, OllyDbg, pcap, gdb, make, hex editor.