Reverse Engineer

Radiance Technologies, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Job summary

Radiance Technologies, Inc. seeks a curious engineer to analyze complex systems, reverse engineer embedded hardware/software, and extract binaries for vulnerability analysis. You will document operation through technical reports and collaborate with/mentor a team of engineers in diverse environments.

The role involves hands-on lab work, field testing, and ongoing learning across computing and engineering disciplines, with a focus on mission-critical challenges and rigorous problem solving.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship and ability to obtain/maintain Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering
• Experience generating technical reports and schematics
• Experience extracting binaries from embedded systems
• Experience analyzing and repairing military weapons
• Mentor junior engineers

Responsibilities

• Reverse engineer embedded hardware and software
• Extract binary contents from embedded processing systems
• Analyze software binaries and analog circuits
• Generate technical reports and schematics describing system operation
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to troubleshoot hardware
• Operate military equipment in lab and field environments
• Mentor junior engineers

Skills

Reverse engineering

Technical reporting

Mentoring

Curiosity/analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

MIPS

ARM

C

Job description

The Threat System Analysis & Defeat Operation offers a unique opportunity to analyze and find vulnerabilities in non-traditional, complex systems. The ideal candidate is a curious engineer who enjoys diving into the details of how things work, why they work that way, and how they will fail. This role will enable you to learn and gain experience in a wide array of engineering and computing disciplines with significant opportunities for deep-dive analytical thinking.

Key Responsibilities

• Reverse engineer embedded hardware and software with limited reference information
• Extract binary contents from embedded processing systems
• Analyze software binaries and analog circuits
• Generate technical reports and schematics to describe system operation
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to troubleshoot and repair inoperable hardware
• Operate military equipment in laboratory and field test environments to support characterization efforts
• Mentor junior engineers

Required Qualifications

• US Citizenship Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance 5 years of related engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of this experience must include military weapon analysis, repair, and/or testing.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering
• Experience generating technical reports and schematics to describe system operation
• Experience extracting binary contents contained within embedded systems
• Experience analyzing, operating, troubleshooting, and repairing military weapons
• Experience characterizing system algorithms from analysis of binaries
• Ability to mentor junior engineers

Desired Qualifications

• Experience or familiarity with any of the following: Embedded systems analysis
• Assembly languages such as MIPS and ARM
• Programming languages such as C
• Telemetry hardware concepts
• Developing custom software and hardware tools to assist in performing reverse engineering and vulnerability analysis
• Weapon system analysis including digital signal processing and tracking algorithms
• US Intelligence Community or DoW contracting
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams of at least 3-5 engineers

Radiance Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Employee-Ownership

Radiance is a proud employee-owned company! Employee-ownership benefits both our customers and workforce, and ensures that Radiance doesn’t have to answer to stockholders or be driven by quarterly earnings reports. Thus, Radiance will always prioritize enhancing our customer’s mission over expanding our bottom line. We are singularly focused on providing our customers with game-changing solutions to their most challenging requirements. This is only possible because employee-ownership attracts the highest quality employees, empowers them to identify capability enhancements, and provides them with the freedom to take risks to deliver high-quality solutions. Employee-ownership also provides tangible and long-term financial security for our people and their families. Therefore, employee-ownership embodies participation, empowerment, freedom, teaming, excellence, accountability, mission focus, and security.

Our Culture

Radiance’s culture is driven by our commitment to our customers and our employee-owners. Our employee-owners thrive on entrepreneurship, empowerment, and mutual responsibility for growth and sustainability. Our culture consists of individuals who embody technical and leadership skills to deliver superior solutions to the nation’s toughest technical challenges. We believe building trust and credibility with our customers leads to long-term results. We invest in a superior technical workforce where leaders are developed, innovation is encouraged, and achievements are recognized. We seek innovative ways to improve, experiment, take risks, foster collaboration, and empower our employee-owners.

Our Values

Our values drive our culture, business model, and daily interactions. These values constantly remind us of who we are and what we do. Our employee-owners influence how we operate our business. We relentlessly pursue operating excellence by innovating, improving our processes, and reducing waste. We believe in being wise and ethical stewards of capital and resources. Our values dictate how we interact with each other and our customers, partners, and suppliers. Honesty, trust, humanity, alignment, and value creation require that we treat our employees with dignity and respect and provide them with fair compensation and equal employment opportunity. We believe in connecting with our communities and have a responsibility to be good corporate citizens, and we believe in sustainable business practices, which include supporting the environment and the communities in which we work.