Vulnerability Researcher

We are looking for experienced Vulnerability Researchers and Reverse Engineers who want to have a meaningful and tangible impact on the National Security of the UK. By joining the Operational Cyber Group, you will be addressing the most critical cyber needs of governments and businesses across the globe, with a meaningful and tangible impact on UK National Security.

Core duties

• Technical delivery: perform vulnerability research and/or reverse engineering on complex and unique challenges, across a myriad of platforms.
• Mentorship, team-leadership, and collaboration: deliver your research as part of a team, whilst knowledge-sharing and mentoring junior team-members.
• Adaptability: work across a range of tools and platforms, picking up new ones or developing bespoke tooling when needed.
• Customer focus: understand what our customers consider to be mission-critical, and how to deliver in line with those needs.

What we are looking for

• Experience in vulnerability research, reverse engineering, or exploit development (professional background or other e.g. capture the flag challenges, bug bounties).
• Familiarity with a variety of tools and platforms (Ghidra, IDA, Unicorn, debuggers, Android, iOS…).
• Knowledge of low-level programming languages across the application stack.
• Understanding of the exploit development lifecycle from identifying bugs up to fully developed proof of concepts.
• Ability to communicate regarding technical topics to a variety of audiences, including non-technical.

The team: Operational Cyber Group is a team of industry-leading experts in high-assurance development, research, reverse engineering, and vulnerability research. With a focus on National Security, we work on some of the country’s toughest challenges. Our people provide mission-changing capability for our customers across a wide variety of platforms and technologies.