Autonomous Vulnerability Researcher

Zealot Labs; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive cash

Meaningful early equity

Mission-driven work

Challenging problems

Job summary

Zealot Labs is seeking vulnerability researchers to design and build agentic systems that autonomously perform vulnerability research across firmware, networks, mobile OSes, and IoT targets. The role emphasises emulation, instrumentation, fuzzing, and exploit primitives integrated into scalable tool interfaces.

You will join our New York City office with hybrid in-person collaboration, and relocation support to work with a team of researchers from leading labs and agencies.

Qualifications

• Prior vulnerability research experience.
• Willing to relocate to New York City for hybrid in-person work.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic systems that autonomously perform vulnerability research against real targets.
• Wire emulation (QEMU, Unicorn, Qiling), instrumentation (Frida, DynamoRIO), fuzzing, and exploit primitives into tool interfaces.
• Develop evaluation and benchmarking infrastructure to measure progress and reliability.

Skills

Systems programming (C/C++, Rust)

ML infrastructure

Binary analysis

RE / debugger chops

Agent harness orchestration

Tools

QEMU

Unicorn

Qiling

PANDA

FirmAE

Frida

DynamoRIO

GDB

IDA

Ghidra

Job description

Zealot Labs is seeking vulnerability researchers to design and build agentic systems that autonomously perform vulnerability research across firmware, networks, mobile OSes, and IoT targets. The role emphasises emulation, instrumentation, fuzzing, and exploit primitives integrated into scalable tool interfaces.

You will join our New York City office with hybrid in-person collaboration, and relocation support to work with a team of researchers from leading labs and agencies.