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Senior Offensive Security Engineer (IoT)

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Mid-level (2-5 years)

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

2+ years of IoT security experience, Understanding of threat models and attack paths, Experience in high-tech or startup environments, Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, Security certifications preferred.

Key responsabilities:

Execute technical offensive security projects for IoT
Identify vulnerabilities in advanced systems
Develop methodologies, payloads, and tools
Create reports and presentations for clients
Mentor fellow engineers and engage with security community

Praetorian Cybersecurity SME https://www.praetorian.com/

51 - 200 Employees

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Job description

Company Overview:

At Praetorian, we are bringing together the world's brightest minds in pursuit of solving the cybersecurity problem by reducing the friction of security and enabling the next wave of technological innovation. From projects that range from cryptocurrency exchanges to autonomous vehicles and from medical device platforms to space telescopes, we apply expertise and engineering to help secure our customers.

Explore our exciting New Hire Survival Guide to dive into Praetorian's mission, vision, values, and culture! Discover our competitive benefits and perks we offer.

Career Opportunity:

Join an industry with massive socio, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
Work with prominent clients and help them solve hard security problems
Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual input has real impact
Align your career trajectory with a hyper-growth company that is on the move

Core Responsibilities:

Provide technical execution on challenging offensive security projects focused on IoT Security for our customers
Identify nuanced vulnerabilities in advanced systems
Develop custom methodologies, payloads, exploits, and tools to ensure project success
Develop documentation for novel mitigation strategies to emerging or undocumented security risks identified in client environments
Develop comprehensive reports and presentations for our customers
Serve as a mentor to other engineers in their technical and professional development
Collaborate with the security community to develop novel attack techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) through Praetorian’s Security Blog and other forms of community engagement

Desired Qualifications:

Demonstrated passion for offensive security and adversarial engineering
2+ years of IoT security experience in one or more cross-functional areas: hardware or software reverse engineering, firmware analysis, embedded cryptography, wireless protocols, glitching/side-channel analysis, or IoT PaaS security
Additional experience in at least 3 of the following:
- Product Security Testing (Application, Mobile, LLM)
- Network Security Testing and/or Red Team
- Web Application Penetration Testing
- Cloud Security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Secure Code Review
- Reverse Engineering
- Vulnerability Research/ Exploit Development
Understanding of threat models, attack paths and intelligence considerations within the scoping of technical projects
Ability to write technical reports and present technical findings both internally and externally
Experience with startup and/or high-tech companies

+1 Qualifications:

Prior security consulting experience a major plus
Software development experience in core offsec languages such as golang or python
Capture-the-flag, CCDC, CPTC or other security related competitions
Ranked achievements on testing platforms such as Hack the Box, Tryhackme, Portswigger and similar
Track record in vulnerability research, exploit development, and CVE assignments
Demonstrated open source contribution with git commits to popular offsec projects
Security community experience via presentations, conference attendance, blogs, white papers and similar
PNPT, BSCP, OSCP, OSWE, OSCE, OSEP, OSED, CRTO, cloud certifications and similar
Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or physics

Desired Behaviors:

Fanatical passion for cybersecurity and the challenges it presents
Customer centric focus with an obsessive need to wow and delight each client
Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
Personable individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
Self-starter and independent learner that is able to spin up quickly

Compensation & Benefits:

Competitive salary
Equity Incentive Plan, offering ownership stakes in the company
Continuous learning opportunities through our internal Learning & Development (L&D) program, including training, certifications, and conferences to support your career growth
Recognition and rewards for speaking engagements at industry events and conferences
Comprehensive health and dental insurance coverage
Immediate 401(k) matching
Paid maternity and paternity leave

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Praetorian. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.