Senior Security Researcher: Vulnerability & Exploitation

Research Innovations Incorporated; San Antonio (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedules

Health insurance

Paid time off

401k with company match

Paid parental leave

Wellness programs

Job summary

Research Innovations Inc. in the United States seeks a Senior Security Researcher to lead vulnerability research across OSes, kernels, firmware, and embedded platforms.

You will scope attack surfaces, drive research from hypothesis to validated findings, and perform deep reverse engineering on diverse architectures. You will design novel exploitation techniques and evaluate mitigations, while mentoring peers and translating findings for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Conducted high-impact vulnerability research on real-world systems with minimal guidance, producing findings that influenced security decisions or mitigations.
• Demonstrated deep understanding of operating system internals (Windows, Linux, macOS), kernel subsystems, and low-level execution models.
• Reverse engineered complex binaries, firmware, or kernel components and reasoned about their behavior in memory.
• Developed proof-of-concept exploits or mitigation bypasses that go beyond simple crashes and demonstrate meaningful impact.
• Shown strong intuition for exploit mitigations such as ASLR, DEP/NX, stack canaries, CFI, and where their assumptions break down.
• Written research tooling, scripts, or frameworks (e.g., Python, C/C++) to support analysis, exploitation, or automation.
• Collaborated closely with other researchers, provided technical feedback, and influenced how work is approached or evaluated.
• Communicated complex technical concepts clearly in writing and discussion, including with other experts.

Responsibilities

• Lead advanced vulnerability research efforts across operating systems, kernels, firmware, hypervisors, embedded platforms, and complex application stacks.
• Independently scoping ambiguous or underexplored attack surfaces and driving research from initial hypothesis through validated findings.
• Performing deep reverse engineering and in-memory analysis of compiled binaries across multiple architectures (x86/x64, ARM, PowerPC, etc.).
• Designing and executing novel exploitation techniques and mitigation evaluations, including identifying real-world weaknesses in modern defense mechanisms.
• Analyzing undocumented or partially documented system behavior and extending internal interfaces or tooling to support research goals.
• Collaborating with other senior researchers to shape technical direction, review complex work, and raise the overall quality of research output.
• Translating low-level technical findings into clear, actionable insights for internal stakeholders and, when appropriate, customers.
• Contributing to research culture through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and improvements to tools, methodologies, and workflows.

Skills

Vulnerability research

Reverse engineering

OS internals

Exploit development

Exploitation techniques

Research tooling

Mentoring

Tools

Python

C/C++

Job description

Research Innovations Inc. in the United States seeks a Senior Security Researcher to lead vulnerability research across OSes, kernels, firmware, and embedded platforms.

You will scope attack surfaces, drive research from hypothesis to validated findings, and perform deep reverse engineering on diverse architectures. You will design novel exploitation techniques and evaluate mitigations, while mentoring peers and translating findings for stakeholders.