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

Our research team is looking for self-motivated teammates interested in exploring low-level technologies. We focus on discovering vulnerabilities, traversing security boundaries, and executing arbitrary code. You are expected to be at the forefront of security: researching, discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in complex systems with millions of lines of code and the most advanced modern mitigations. Our team is fully remote, with a strong culture of teamwork and an interest in difficult projects. We often work in small fluid teams of 2-3 people, and encourage all researchers to learn from and contribute their expertise to all ongoing projects. We encourage moving between projects so as to develop and grow our internal expertise. We value creativity and deep understanding of software. Solid engineering skills are required for developing custom tooling to assist in your work. We encourage frequent communication between team members as it is essential to our success.

The base salary range for this role is $160,000-$250,000 DOE.

Responsibilities

• Discover software vulnerabilities in complex code bases

• Research exploitation and security mitigation bypass techniques

• Reverse engineer software using IDA Pro and HexRays decompiler

• Navigate and understand large source code codebases

• Fully understand systems and identify trust/security boundaries and attack surfaces

• Write detailed technical documentation

• Develop custom tools to assist in your work

• Proficiency working both independently and within a team

Requirements

• Demonstrated successes in the discovery of software vulnerabilities

• Focus on achieving the highest possible reliability

• Detailed understanding of how computers work

• Experience using IDA and HexRays

• Familiarity with compiler internals

• Familiarity with operating system architecture

• Have an open mind and learning mindset

• Proficient in C and C++

• Proficient in Python

• Proficient in X86-64 and ARM64

• Experience with IDA Pro scripting and plugin development (HexRays a plus)

• Desire to learn both new and old technologies

• Desire to develop solutions as good as they can possibly be

• Ability to communicate and document how complex systems work

• Ability to stay motivated and focused while solving challenging problems

Company Perks

• Before, during and after COVID-19, our workforce works flexibly. Many employees choose to work from home around the globe. As long as you deliver against your goals, we encourage you to harness your personal working style to let you work best.

• Liberal expense policy for acquiring the equipment and software that help you do your job. If we need hardware to work effectively, we buy it.

• We offer exceptional and tailored technical, leadership and organizational training for our team members. Everyone is encouraged to identify additional opportunities for personal professional growth with working at Trail of Bits.

• We routinely highlight the amazing work our employees do via our blog, product offerings, and conference talks. We celebrate you!

• We're at the forefront of a number of markets and have the internal expertise and the ambition to capitalize on those opportunities. Our employees see their work in use and valued by many others.

Highlighting some of our US Canadian Employee Benefits:

• Multiple generous health, vision, and dental insurance plans.

• Ancillary benefits including life and disability insurance.

• Retirement plan with 5% company matching.

• 4 months paid parental leave.

• Moving expenses: $5,000 one-time.

• Charitable donations matching up to $2,000.

• One time $1,000 at home office expense stipend.

• $500/year personal learning development budget.

• Executive coaching for managers above.

• Bonuses for recruiting, public speaking, tool releases, blog posts, academic posters, proposals, and whitepapers, and end-of-year bonuses based on company, team, and personal performance.

• 20 days of PTO per year for vacation, sick, and personal time off.

• 15 company holidays per year.

• Carbon offsets for your personal and corporate carbon emissions through Project Wren.

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.