Senior CNO Engineer: Offensive Security & Embedded Systems

Researchinnovations.Com; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules

Health insurance

Paid time off

401k match

Paid parental leave

Wellness programs

Job summary

Research Innovations Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Researcher to build offense-grade software for contested environments. You will design CNO capabilities across userland, kernel, and network layers, modernize legacy tooling, and develop software for Windows, Linux/Unix, embedded, and mobile devices.

The role requires deep binary analysis, reverse engineering, and experience with multi-OS development. Expect travel based on customer engagements and a focus on performance, stealth, and

Qualifications

• Significant experience programming in C and Python.
• Direct experience developing CNO or exploit capabilities.
• Embedded or firmware development on resource-constrained systems.
• Experience in Windows applications using Visual Studio or .NET, or UNIX apps with makefiles or equivalent build environments.
• Familiarity with Git, SVN, or CVS.

Responsibilities

• Build offense-grade software that operates in denied, constrained, and adversarial environments.
• Design, implement, and debug custom CNO capabilities across userland, kernel, and network layers.
• Tear down, modernize, and re-engineer legacy and acquired tooling for performance, stealth, and maintainability.
• Develop software that runs where defenders don’t want it (Windows, Linux/Unix, embedded, mobile, and network devices).
• Perform deep binary analysis and reverse engineering across architectures and calling conventions.
• Own and evolve reproducible build systems, toolchains, and test harnesses.
• Work close to the metal: compilers, loaders, memory, execution flow, and runtime behavior.
• Travel as determined by the customer.

Skills

C programming

Python

CNO exploitation

Embedded

Windows apps

UNIX builds

Tools

Git

Subversion

CVS

Jenkins

GitLab

Bamboo

Job description

Research Innovations Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Researcher to build offense-grade software for contested environments. You will design CNO capabilities across userland, kernel, and network layers, modernize legacy tooling, and develop software for Windows, Linux/Unix, embedded, and mobile devices.

The role requires deep binary analysis, reverse engineering, and experience with multi-OS development. Expect travel based on customer engagements and a focus on performance, stealth, and