Senior Vulnerability Engineer - Embedded Hardware Security

Anduril Industries, Inc.

Boston (MA)

On-site

USD 152,000 - 253,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Anduril Industries, Inc. in Boston, MA is seeking a Vulnerability Engineer to uncover novel vulnerabilities across embedded systems, firmware, and hardware/software boundaries. You will design research plans, build tooling, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive remediation and produce rigorous technical reports.

The role requires hands-on experience in vulnerability research, debugging, and hardware analysis, with eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.

Qualifications

Strong experience discovering vulnerabilities in firmware, applications, network services, embedded Linux systems, drivers, protocols, IoT devices, or hardware-adjacent systems.
Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, C, C++, Rust, or Go for vulnerability research and tooling.
Experience with fuzzing, harness development, crash triage, exploitability analysis, source-code review, binary analysis, or dynamic instrumentation.
Ability to reason about memory corruption, logic flaws, authentication and authorization failures, unsafe parsing, concurrency issues, insecure update flows, and trust-boundary failures.
Hands-on familiarity with Linux, embedded systems, networking, debugging, and common security research tooling.
Ability to communicate vulnerability impact, reproduction steps, and mitigation options clearly to both research and engineering audiences.
Demonstrated bias toward practical, mission-enabling security outcomes rather than purely theoretical findings.
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Experience evaluating vulnerabilities across embedded protection mechanisms such as secure boot, firmware update paths, key storage, memory protection, and debug interface controls.
Comfort working with lab-based vulnerability validation using hardware interfaces, protocol analyzers, debuggers, or instrumented test setups.

Responsibilities

Find novel vulnerabilities in software, firmware, embedded systems, protocols, update paths, device interfaces, and hardware/software integration boundaries.
Design and execute vulnerability research plans that combine code review, reverse engineering, fuzzing, emulation, dynamic instrumentation, hardware analysis, and adversarial testing.
Build custom fuzzers, harnesses, emulators, instrumentation, triage workflows, and proof-of-concept tooling to turn research hypotheses into reproducible findings.
Analyze root cause, exploitability, operational impact, and mitigation options for discovered vulnerabilities.
Partner with reverse engineers, product security engineers, embedded software engineers, hardware engineers, and systems teams to validate findings and drive practical remediation.
Write clear technical reports that include evidence, reproduction steps, exploitability assessment, impact, mitigations, and follow-on research opportunities.
Design hardware-in-the-loop vulnerability experiments that combine software exploitation, protocol analysis, physical interfaces, and lab instrumentation.
Develop tooling to automate experiment orchestration, device interaction, data collection, crash triage, and vulnerability reproduction.