Offensive Security Researcher

Job Description

• Initiates the secure design, development, execution, and implementation of scientific research projects to fuel growth in secure computing, communication, memory, networking, intellectual property, and new business opportunities.

• Applies scientific research principles and concepts to potential inventions and products to define and architect secure design, development, and operation of Intel's hardware and software products and services.

• Leads complex, multidisciplinary security research projects with expertise in exploring vulnerabilities and implements complex multistage exploits on hardware platforms and architectures.

• Serves as subject matter expert in vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploitation.

• Studies emerging threat landscape in hacker community to prioritize offensive security research focus.

• Focuses on robust counter measures and provides mitigation guidance and strategies.

• Explores and invents hardware techniques as a method of attack against targets, commanding deep pervasive pulse on business and technologies.

• Scouts the threat landscape of low level microcode, pursuing opportunities when discovered to build our hacking capability.

• Builds new adversary tools, techniques, or methodologies for automation research and lower level systems, accommodating partner teams with reasonable expectations and timeframes.

• Maintains substantial knowledge of state-of-the-art security principles, theories, and emerging threat landscapes and contributes to literatures and conferences.

• Exhibits passion for security research and community impact demonstrated by published research and collaboration to community efforts.

• Researches technological trends, enables partnerships and collaboration among industry, academia, standards bodies, product, and other technical groups to address important technology and customer issues, and finds innovative solutions to difficult problems for midterm or long term time frames.

• Influences external research, disseminates results, and raises the profile of conducted research through scientific publications, patents, talks, and Intel internal or external outreach efforts.

• Performs research to define boundaries and create proof of concepts or prototype new ideas including test chips and competitive analysis versus industry trends.

• Works with engineering design teams to determine product requirements and the feasibility of new technology adoption and robustness of secure product design.

• Recommends features and influences future Intel product roadmap.

Qualifications

Minimum work experience requirements:

• 7+ years of experience (or equivalent) in the field of system security research, and exploring software + hardware techniques as a method of attack against targets within computing systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• In-depth experience with vulnerability research

• Demonstrated expertise in exploit development (published exploits and write-ups on exploiting new classes of issues, new techniques, tools are greatly appreciated)

• Reverse Engineering experience (or, for researchers focused on open-source software, demonstrated expertise on reading assembly and writing exploits for complex vulnerability classes)

• Knowledge of computer architecture, CPU, SoC, chipsets, BIOS, Firmware, Drivers, and other compute paradigms

The ideal candidate should also have:

• Ability to work autonomously in a less structured startup type environment with minimal supervision

• Ability to span security expertise over HW, SW and Firmware domains

• Passion for security research and community impact, demonstrated by published research and collaboration to community efforts (yes, Phrack and PoC '' GTFO papers are appreciated more than certifications)

Inside this Business Group

Enable amazing computing experiences with Intel Software continues to shape the way people think about computing – across CPU, GPU, and FPGA architectures. Get your hands on new technology and collaborate with some of the smartest people in the business. Our developers and software engineers work in all software layers, across multiple operating systems and platforms to enable cutting-edge solutions. Ready to solve some of the most complex software challenges? Explore an impactful and innovative career in Software.

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here.

Working Model

This role is available as a fully home-based and generally would require you to attend Intel sites only occasionally based on business need. This role may also be available as our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.