Senior Firmware & Hardware Reverse Engineer

Anduril; Boston, Costa Mesa, Washington (MA, CA, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, seeks a Reverse Engineer to analyze firmware, embedded software, and hardware interfaces across multiple platforms. The role emphasizes building reusable workflows, documenting findings, and collaborating with engineers to drive secure, evidence-based decisions.

Candidate should demonstrate strong Python and C/C++/Rust skills, familiarity with Ghidra/IDA, and the ability to derive meaningful insights from undocumented systems.

Qualifications

• Strong experience reverse engineering compiled software, firmware, embedded Linux systems, drivers, bootloaders, protocols, or hardware-adjacent systems.
• Proficiency with reverse-engineering tools such as Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, radare2, gdb/lldb, QEMU, Unicorn, Frida, or comparable analysis frameworks.
• Strong programming ability in Python and at least one systems language such as C, C++, or Rust for building analysis tooling and understanding low-level implementation behavior.
• Comfort reading assembly and reasoning about memory layout, calling conventions, binary formats, concurrency, and hardware/software interaction.
• Experience analyzing common embedded and systems interfaces such as UART, JTAG/SWD, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, CAN, USB, PCIe, or comparable buses and protocols.
• Ability to turn ambiguous, undocumented systems into structured technical findings, diagrams, test cases, and engineering recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for research reviews, design reviews, and cross-functional engineering collaboration.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• Experience with embedded system teardown, board-level analysis, hardware debug interfaces, and circuit/component-level reasoning.
• Understanding of secure boot, tamper sensing, secure key storage, memory encryption or authentication, debug interface disablement, or comparable embedded protection mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Reverse engineer firmware, binaries, embedded software, protocols, hardware interfaces, and system integrations to understand behavior, trust boundaries, and attack surface.
• Build repeatable analysis workflows using static analysis, dynamic instrumentation, emulation, fuzzing harnesses, hardware debug interfaces, and custom tooling.
• Recover undocumented formats, control flows, communication protocols, update mechanisms, boot chains, and security-relevant implementation details.
• Identify weaknesses in software, firmware, and hardware/software boundaries, then document findings clearly enough to drive follow-on vulnerability research, mitigation, or exploitation work.
• Work with vulnerability researchers, embedded software engineers, hardware engineers, and systems teams to translate reverse-engineering findings into concrete engineering decisions.
• Produce high-quality technical writeups, diagrams, tooling, and reproducible artifacts that other researchers and engineers can build on.
• Perform board-level and component-level reverse engineering, including teardown, interface discovery, instrumentation, and protocol analysis across embedded targets.
• Develop software and lab automation to orchestrate experiments, collect measurements, control instruments, and make hardware analysis repeatable.

Skills

Reverse engineering

Embedded Linux

Drivers & bootloaders

Protocols

Hardware interfaces

Python

C/C++

Rust

Tools

Ghidra

IDA Pro

Binary Ninja

radare2

gdb/lldb

QEMU

Unicorn

Frida

Job description

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, seeks a Reverse Engineer to analyze firmware, embedded software, and hardware interfaces across multiple platforms. The role emphasizes building reusable workflows, documenting findings, and collaborating with engineers to drive secure, evidence-based decisions.

Candidate should demonstrate strong Python and C/C++/Rust skills, familiarity with Ghidra/IDA, and the ability to derive meaningful insights from undocumented systems.