Senior iOS Cyber Specialist
Washington D.C., District of Columbia
Job ID 12432L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.
Job Title: Senior iOS Cyber Specialist
Job Code: 12432
Job Location: Remote
Job Description:
- Liaise with security researchers to adopt working research output into commercial products.
- Guide product architecture to support the goals of sustainability, testability, reliability and integrity.
- Contribute significantly to the implementation of the products at all levels.
- Implement tests that demonstrate the effectiveness of the products and also provide confidence that the products are reliable and robust.
- Effectively communicate status and technical challenges using language that is appropriate to your audience.
- Participate in planning and prioritisation activities with members of the commercial arm of the organisation.
- Provide support of customer reported issues.
- Participate in the analysis of situations leading to the compromise of products.
- Document design and implementation decisions appropriate for an expert audience.
- Write user documentation appropriate for customers.
- Participate in the development and delivery of user training.
- Provide guidance to less experienced engineers in technical fields relevant to the platform and the domains of cyber security and software engineering.
- Monitor industry trends and publicly disclosed techniques.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent Cyber Security coursework and 6 years of experience software, software quality, or test development experience or Master's and 4 years of experience. In lieu of degree 10 years of experience in software quality.
- Reasonable written and oral communication skills, and a propensity to ask questions when you don’t know.
- Exceptional demonstrated proficiency in all aspects of the iOS platform relevant to cyber security, including aarch64 assembly, iOS system internals, the C, Objective-C, Swift and JavaScript programming languages, memory management and pointer integrity techniques, and Apple’s approach to code signing.
- Demonstrated proficiency using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, or Hopper and dynamic tools such as Frida.
- Demonstrated proficiency using common software development tools such as git and cmake.
- Demonstrated proficiency with techniques for Continuous Integration, preferably using Gitlab CI.
- Demonstrated proficiency using Xcode.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or a related field.
- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous or incompletely defined problems and resolve them through consultation with appropriate stakeholders.
- Demonstrated a collaborative and team-oriented mindset for accomplishing goals and a bias to action – a desire to make things happen.
- Substantial experience in offensive cyber security.
- Substantial experience working in a professional engineering environment.
Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
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