About Trail of Bits
Trail of Bits helps secure the world’s most targeted organizations and products. We combine high-end security research with a real-world attacker mentality to reduce risk and fortify code.
As a cybersecurity research and consulting firm, we serve clients in the defense, tech, finance, and blockchain industries. We help with their most difficult security challenges by designing and building new technology, researching new techniques to advance the state of practice, and reviewing the security of the latest available technology products before they hit the market.
Our team consumes, produces, and presents research as a natural part of doing business. When we make new discoveries or developments, we strive to share our knowledge and release our tools as open-source. It’s a practice that’s earned us industry accolades and helped contribute to our double-digit bottom-line growth.
Role
This role will support both our commercial clients needing software engineering support and/or our government-sponsored research. Our commercial clients typically have objectives that are more well-defined, whereas research often requires more exploration, collaboration, and prototyping before arriving at a solution.
You will be contributing to one or two research projects. You will explore open-ended problems in reverse engineering, program analysis, cryptography, and other computer security-related areas. You will develop tools for collecting and analyzing low-level system information while prioritizing the needs of the end-user. You will often work closely in teams of 2-4 people in remote locations. Technical leads will assign responsibilities to you and other team members based on expertise and interest, and you will develop proofs of concept, prototypes, and enhancements to our existing tools to support a project's goals.
You will devote a portion of your time to exploring new ideas that interest you and are relevant to today's needs in security. Internal research projects are incentivized and may be open-sourced, published on our blog, and submitted to well-respected and peer-reviewed security conferences.
We are looking for self-motivated teammates attracted to learning new technologies. It is important that new researchers communicate and connect well with a team inclusive of remote employees. Occasionally, you will present and demonstrate your work to colleagues and external stakeholders.
Dedication to diversity, equity & inclusion
Trail of Bits is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees can thrive and be themselves! We welcome all persons into our community. We embrace the diversity of gender, gender identity or expression, race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical and mental disabilities, medical condition, genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, marital status, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or perceived membership in any of these groups.
