Senior Offensive Security Researcher (Exploit & Vulnerability)

Success Matcher Recruitment; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks PTO

Relocation assistance

Performance bonus

Job summary

Success Matcher Recruitment represents a rapidly growing defense and cybersecurity organization seeking a highly technical security researcher. You will conduct vulnerability research across kernels, firmware, hypervisors, embedded systems, and application stacks, with emphasis on exploit development and validated findings. The role offers strong autonomy, a clear technical career path, and relocation support to St.

Petersburg, Melbourne, or San Antonio. U.S.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on vulnerability research and exploit development.
• Offensive cybersecurity engineering experience — vulnerability research, exploit development, or CNO development.
• Strong reverse engineering and low-level systems expertise.
• Demonstrated exploit development, including proof-of-concept exploits and mitigation bypasses.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python.
• Experience with static and dynamic binary analysis, IDA Pro, fuzzing, or symbolic execution.

Responsibilities

• Conduct vulnerability research across kernels, firmware, hypervisors, embedded systems, and application stacks.
• Reverse engineer binaries across x86/x64, ARM, and PowerPC.
• Develop novel exploits and evaluate security mitigations.
• Research ambiguous attack surfaces and turn findings into validated vulnerabilities.
• Build research tooling and collaborate with senior security researchers.

Skills

Vulnerability research

Exploit development

Reverse engineering

C/C++

Python

Binary analysis

Tools

IDA Pro

Job description

Success Matcher Recruitment represents a rapidly growing defense and cybersecurity organization seeking a highly technical security researcher. You will conduct vulnerability research across kernels, firmware, hypervisors, embedded systems, and application stacks, with emphasis on exploit development and validated findings. The role offers strong autonomy, a clear technical career path, and relocation support to St.

Petersburg, Melbourne, or San Antonio. U.S.