Experience programming in Assembly, C, C#, C++, Perl, or Python with a focus on an understanding of system interactions with these libraries vs. production-style environments
Use of Unix/Windows system API’s
Understanding of virtual function tables in C++
Heap allocation strategies and protections
Experience with very large software projects a plus
Kernel programming experience (WDK / Unix||Linux) a significant plus
Hardware/Software reverse engineering, which often includes the use of tools (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja) to identify abstract concepts about the code flow of an application.
For Hardware reverse engineering, candidates expected to have performed analysis of embedded devices, focusing primarily on identifying the software stack and points of entry to the hardware (e.g. not interested in FPGA reverse engineering, or other circuit reverse engineering).
Candidates who can merge low-level knowledge about compilation of C/C++ code with a nuanced understanding of system design to identify and exploit common vulnerability patterns. Candidates should be comfortable with, at a minimum, user-mode stack-based buffer overflows, and heap-based exploitation strategies.
