AI-Powered Firmware Emulation Architect

Zealot Labs, Inc.

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 100,000 - 195,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Zealot Labs, Inc. seeks a highly skilled engineer to join its Washington, DC team on-site. Early-stage startup with strong pedigree, offering significant equity and a compensation range of 100K–195K USD plus skin in the game.

You will build AI-driven capabilities to reverse engineer and emulate embedded firmware across devices, extending the platform into diverse environments. You will work with a team of experts, leveraging QEMU, Linux-based targets, and cutting-edge tooling to scale firmware

Qualifications

Experience in reverse engineering embedded firmware and boot flows.
Ability to analyze firmware from embedded devices (routers, cameras, etc.).
Proficiency in C/C++ or Rust for systems-level work.
Ability to work from incomplete documentation.

Responsibilities

Build agentic systems to understand and emulate embedded targets at scale.
Design workflows to reverse firmware, map boot logic and runtime dependencies, and determine what is required to boot and execute unfamiliar firmware under emulation.
Turn firmware reversing and emulation into scalable AI-driven capability.
Extend Zealot's platform across Linux-based devices and non-Linux/RTOS environments.
Apply strong reverse engineering to targets and translate findings into tooling.
Contribute to developing AI-assisted firmware analysis workflows.