Autonomous Vulnerability Researcher - Onsite NY + Equity

Zealot Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Zealot Labs in New York, NY is seeking a Vulnerability Researcher to design and build agentic systems that autonomously perform vulnerability research across firmware, network stacks, mobile OSes, and IoT. You will wire emulation, instrumentation, fuzzing, and exploit primitives into scalable tool interfaces.

The role requires 2–3+ years in systems programming (C/C++, Rust) and ML infrastructure, with strong RE/debugging skills and familiarity with modern mitigations.

Qualifications

• 2–3+ years across systems programming (C/C++, Rust) and ML infrastructure.
• Familiarity with binary analysis, memory corruption classes, and mitigations (ASLR, CFI, PAC, MTE).
• Hands-on work with agent harnesses, orchestration, tool-use, eval loops in production or benchmark scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic systems that autonomously perform vulnerability research against targets: firmware, network stacks, mobile OSes, and IoT.
• Wire emulation, instrumentation, fuzzing, and exploit primitives into tool interfaces for agents.
• Build evaluation and benchmarking infrastructure to measure effectiveness.

Skills

C/C++

Rust

ML infra

binaries analysis

RE / debugger

Tools

GDB

IDA/Ghidra

QEMU/Unicorn/Qiling

Job description

Zealot Labs in New York, NY is seeking a Vulnerability Researcher to design and build agentic systems that autonomously perform vulnerability research across firmware, network stacks, mobile OSes, and IoT. You will wire emulation, instrumentation, fuzzing, and exploit primitives into scalable tool interfaces.

The role requires 2–3+ years in systems programming (C/C++, Rust) and ML infrastructure, with strong RE/debugging skills and familiarity with modern mitigations.