Sr. Security Researcher - Mobile Malware Reverse Engineer (remote)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · United States · Remote

This role focuses on researching and analyzing mobile malware and cyber threats, developing tools for automation, and creating signatures for detection and tracking. It involves deep-dive reverse engineering and malicious code analysis within the cybersecurity domain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Discover, analyze and track advanced cyber campaigns that exploit security issues in mobile platforms or leverage mobile malware.
  2. Enhance understanding of malicious mobile tools and malware through reverse engineering.
  3. Develop and maintain tools to automate analysis tasks and tracking of threat actors.
  4. Create host-based and network-based signatures suited for large-scale hunting, detection, and tracking of threats.

Skills

Required

  • Knowledge of reverse engineering tools (disassemblers, decompilers, debuggers) and processes (unpacking malware, reconstructing code logic, etc).
  • Knowledge of programming and scripting languages, in particular Python.
  • Ability to identify and classify malicious tooling through development of signatures that can be used for tracking and hunting purposes.
  • Ability to express complex technical and non-technical concepts in written, verbal and graphical products.
  • Proven track record of relevant experience in the field cybersecurity and ability to be a team player

Nice to have

  • Ability to interpret raw network data and to develop network signatures, as well as custom protocol decoders and decryption tools.
  • Familiarity with mobile threats.
  • A background in intelligence is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • mobile threats
  • malware reverse engineer
  • reverse engineering
  • malware