Senior Vulnerability Researcher Engineer (TS)

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Key Responsibilities

Perform vulnerability research / reverse engineering (VR/RE) against a variety of embedded systems, including both hardware and software targets Analyze software, firmware, binaries, protocols,

Requirements Summary

U.S.

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking a Senior Vulnerability Research Engineer to join our team in support of advanced research and development contracts for the U.S. Government. You'll work on a small, highly technical team performing vulnerability research and reverse engineering against complex embedded and cyber-physical systems. The role involves taking research from initial target analysis through vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and integration into operational cyber capabilities.

As a Senior Vulnerability Research Engineer, you'll serve as an experienced hands-on technical contributor while helping guide less experienced researchers through complex technical challenges. You'll have the opportunity to work across the full vulnerability research lifecycle, develop new tools and techniques, and contribute to technically challenging research efforts involving software, firmware, hardware, and communications interfaces.

This is an onsite position based at the Cromulence-Parsons office in the historic downtown of Melbourne, Florida, on Florida's Space Coast. Work will be performed in both classified and unclassified environments.

Responsibilities

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→Perform vulnerability research / reverse engineering (VR/RE) against a variety of embedded systems, including both hardware and software targets
→Analyze software, firmware, binaries, protocols, and system behavior to identify exploitable vulnerabilities
→Develop, test, debug, and integrate cyber tools such as exploits, cyber effects, and supporting research capabilities
→Apply static and dynamic analysis techniques using disassemblers, decompilers, debuggers, emulators, instrumentation, and custom tooling
→Analyze and bypass modern exploit mitigations and platform-specific security protections
→Develop scripts, utilities, harnesses, and automation to improve vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploit development workflows
→Contribute to the development of emulation, instrumentation, fuzzing, and other advanced vulnerability research capabilities
→Independently execute significant portions of complex vulnerability research efforts while collaborating with other researchers on larger technical objectives
→Serve as a senior technical contributor and mentor, providing technical direction to junior researchers while remaining hands-on with vulnerability research and exploit development
→Review technical approaches, research results, exploit implementations, and supporting software developed by other team members
→Document technical findings, research methodologies, vulnerabilities, and developed capabilities for internal and customer-facing use
→Collaborate with customers and technical stakeholders to understand target systems, research objectives, and technical constraints

Requirements

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An active Top Secret clearance is required to apply
Must be able to obtain SCI and/or SAP accesses

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret security clearance is required for this position.

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: $112,200.00 - $196,400.00

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

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