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Senior Security Software Engineer

Keysight Technologies
Telford
2 weeks ago
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About the Role

Keysight is looking to hire a senior security software engineer to develop automated program analysis and fuzz testing capabilities for our security assessment products. The successful candidate will be key in designing and implementing novel and scalable tools for automated software composition analysis and vulnerability discovery in firmware binaries and code bases. If you enjoy regularly being challenged and working on novel ideas to solve cybersecurity problems, please apply to join our team.

Responsibilities

  1. Designing solutions to enable automated software composition analysis and identification of vulnerabilities
  2. Developing and maintaining software composition analysis tools
  3. Performing research in embedded device firmware security and compose articles and papers for publication

Qualifications

Required Skills:

  1. Master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, or Cyber Security OR equivalent practical experience in a related field
  2. Experience with writing automated source code analyzers
  3. Experience with automating binary analysis tasks in Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, or Radare2
  4. Experience with fuzz testing and CPU/system emulation frameworks
  5. Sound knowledge of auditing C/C++ code
  6. A willingness to learn new things and an ability to analyze and solve new problems with little instruction or guidance

Preferred Skills:

  1. Familiarity with the Rust programming language
  2. Experience with firmware reverse engineering
  3. Experience with training or mentoring
  4. Experience with SaaS development

Careers Privacy Statement

Keysight is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


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