Security Engineering Intern: Offensive Testing & Hardening

General Matter, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Overtime pay

Job summary

General Matter, Inc. seeks an ambitious Information Security Engineer intern in Los Angeles, CA. You will attack our products and infrastructure, working with engineers to fix issues, across web apps, APIs, Linux/Windows hosts, cloud environments, embedded devices, and industrial controllers.

You will own real projects, perform threat modeling, code audits, and build tooling to spot security exposures. This is a hands-on internship with on-site collaboration and overtime eligibility.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Security experience in one or more of the following: C, C++, Rust, Go, Python, x86, ARM, cryptography, reverse engineering, embedded systems, or network protocols.
• A strong understanding of common vulnerability classes and how to exploit them, such as SQLi, XSS, CSRF, SSRF, memory corruption, and authentication or authorization flaws.
• Experience auditing code and features, and comfort reading large codebases you didn't write.
• Strong investigative and analytical problem‑solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Break everything you touch and help fix it.
• Run penetration tests against General Matter networks, services, web apps and APIs with working proof-of-concept exploits.
• Audit code and features for security vulnerabilities in Python, C, C++, Rust, Go, TypeScript; build static analysis rules or CI checks.
• Reverse engineer and attack embedded devices and industrial equipment on an isolated test bench.
• Do threat modeling and adversarial design reviews with software, controls, and hardware engineers.
• Assess third‑party software, devices, and services before they enter our environment.
• Attack cloud and identity infrastructure, including IAM misconfigurations and exposed secrets.
• Build automated tooling that spots known security exposures.
• Present findings to engineers and leaders who own the systems.

Skills

C

C++

Rust

Go

Python

x86

ARM

Reverse engineering

Embedded systems

Network protocols

Education

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity

Tools

Burp Suite

Ghidra

ID A

Binary Ninja

Wireshark

Metasploit

Job description

General Matter, Inc. seeks an ambitious Information Security Engineer intern in Los Angeles, CA. You will attack our products and infrastructure, working with engineers to fix issues, across web apps, APIs, Linux/Windows hosts, cloud environments, embedded devices, and industrial controllers.

You will own real projects, perform threat modeling, code audits, and build tooling to spot security exposures. This is a hands-on internship with on-site collaboration and overtime eligibility.