Senior Malware Reverse Engineer & Detection Lead

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a senior Malware Reverse Engineer to lead deep technical analyses of complex malware, unpacking samples to reveal behavior, infrastructure, and adversary tradecraft. You will translate findings into detections, support incident response, and mentor analysts.

The role emphasizes senior technical leadership, rigorous code-level validation, and collaboration across incident response teams to raise engineering depth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in malware reverse engineering, exploit analysis, vulnerability research, or closely related cyber technical analysis roles
• Minimum 8 years of hands-on malware analysis across Windows and Linux environments
• Minimum 6 years of experience using advanced reverse engineering tools and 3 years with debugging and binary analysis tooling
• Minimum 5 years of deconstructing packed/obfuscated malware and bypassing anti-analysis techniques
• Minimum 4 years of experience in low-level code (assembly) and 5 years developing tooling in C/C++ or Python

Responsibilities

• Conduct advanced static and dynamic analysis of malware across Windows and Linux environments
• Reverse engineer complex and obfuscated binaries
• Reproduce and validate publicly disclosed vulnerabilities being operationalized by threat actors
• Extract configuration data, artifacts, and C2 logic from malware
• Translate reverse engineering findings into high-fidelity detection logic for SOC use cases
• Provide technical mentorship and act as a senior reviewer of malware analyses

Skills

Malware reverse engineering

Static analysis

Dynamic analysis

Windows

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

IDA Pro

Ghidra

x64dbg

Binary Ninja

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a senior Malware Reverse Engineer to lead deep technical analyses of complex malware, unpacking samples to reveal behavior, infrastructure, and adversary tradecraft. You will translate findings into detections, support incident response, and mentor analysts.

The role emphasizes senior technical leadership, rigorous code-level validation, and collaboration across incident response teams to raise engineering depth.