AI-Driven Firmware Emulation Engineer

Zealot Labs, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 117,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Zealot Labs, Inc. is developing AI-powered systems to understand and emulate embedded targets at scale. The team emphasizes reverse engineering of firmware, boot flows, and runtime behavior across Linux-based devices and RTOS environments.

This early-stage startup seeks engineers who thrive in high-ownership settings. Applicants should have strong C/C++ or Rust skills and experience with firmware analysis in routers, cameras, or telecom gear. QEMU and related emulation tooling are a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience in reverse engineering embedded firmware and boot flows.
• Strong understanding of Linux-based devices and low-level runtime behavior.
• Ability to analyze firmware from routers, cameras, network appliances, or telecom gear.

Responsibilities

• Build agentic systems to understand and emulate embedded targets at scale.
• Design workflows to reverse firmware, map boot logic and runtime dependencies for emulation.
• Turn firmware reversing and emulation into scalable AI-driven tooling.
• Extend Zealot's platform across Linux-based devices and non-Linux/RTOS environments.
• Contribute to firmware analysis tooling and automated targets understanding.

Skills

Reverse engineering

Embedded systems

Firmware analysis

C/C++ or Rust

Documentation inference

Tools

Ghidra

IDA

Binwalk

GDB

strace

QEMU

Job description

Zealot Labs, Inc. is developing AI-powered systems to understand and emulate embedded targets at scale. The team emphasizes reverse engineering of firmware, boot flows, and runtime behavior across Linux-based devices and RTOS environments.

This early-stage startup seeks engineers who thrive in high-ownership settings. Applicants should have strong C/C++ or Rust skills and experience with firmware analysis in routers, cameras, or telecom gear. QEMU and related emulation tooling are a plus.