Summer Internship: Vulnerability Researcher(Freshman/Sophmore/Junior/Senior)

Company: RTX
Location: Huntsville
Posted on: November 20, 2020

Job Description:

Seeking undergraduate college students for Vulnerability Researcher (VR) and Software Developer internships for Summer of 2021 at Raytheon Technologies Cyber Security Offensive & Defensive (CODEX) in Huntsville, AL. CODEX's passion is work that challenges, engages, and empowers real-world mission impact which means our research and development efforts cover the full spectrum of security technologies for computer network operations. Candidates must play both sides of the fence-developing and defeating advanced new security techniques. Projects are undertaken on small teams in close coordination with customers to quickly deliver or enhance capabilities.

Potential Software Developer candidates should enjoy systems-level security engineering - especially Windows/Linux kernel development, forensic and anti-forensic techniques, rootkit analysis, anti-reverse engineering, embedded systems development, and information operations. Our ideal candidate is someone with great technical and problem-solving skills, and a high degree of creativity! Potential deep Vulnerability Researcher candidates would include those who've discovered a kernel paged pool exploit, modified JIT engines to add your own instrumentation to mitigate entire vulnerability classes, created a heap-based buffer overflow with ASLR/DEP defeats, used solvers to highlight interesting call/dataflow graphs, or created custom hardware emulators… you'll be right at home in CODEX.

Required Qualifications:

* Must be pursuing a Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity-relevant field (e.g. CS, CPE, EE)

* Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Bash, Powershell)

* Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages (e.g. C/C++)

* Familiarity with low-level architectures (e.g. x86, ARM)

* This position required the ability to obtain a government security clearance

Desired Qualifications:

* Computer network operations experience (e.g. CTFs, red/blue teams, pentesting)

* Networked communications development (e.g. TCP/UDP sockets, Bluetooth, GSM)

* Reverse engineering experience (e.g. IDA Pro, WinDbg, ollydbg, gdb, objdump)

* Hardware emulation development (e.g. QEMU, Unicorn, Panda, VHDL)

* Cryptographic experience (e.g. implementing AES, side channel attacks)

* Mobile/embedded development (e.g. Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi)

* Active U.S. Government Security Clearance

Required Education:

Candidate must be pursuing a bachelor's degree in cyber engineering (e.g. CS, CPE, EE), information technology or related field. A GPA of 3.0+ is strongly desired. Please include your transcript with your application.

Our Interviews:

Our interviews are technical. Come prepared to tell us about your technical background and interests as well as to work through some of our questions on a computer or whiteboard. We hope candidates find our questions to be thought provoking, but we don't ask brain teasers or tricks. This is a chance to have a dialog with our team, and we hope you will enjoy it!

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Raytheon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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