Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Trellix is a global cybersecurity company providing an open cybersecurity platform focused on protecting organizations from advanced threats. The Solution Consultant role supports Android reverse engineering by analyzing applications and SDKs, identifying security risks and malicious activity, researching mobile threats, and collaborating with security and development teams.
Responsibilities
- Conduct in-depth analysis of Android applications and SDKs to understand their codebase, architecture, functionality and to identify potential risks
- Employ advanced reverse engineering techniques to extract information from various codebases, including decompilation, disassembly, and debugging
- Identify user and device risk, data leakage, and malicious code execution within Android apps and SDKs
- Gather, analyze and report threat intelligence related to Android malware, exploits, and emerging security trends
- Collaborate with security researchers, developers, and other stakeholders to share findings, provide recommendations, and contribute to the development of secure applications and ecosystem
Skills
- We require a minimum of 3 - 5+ years of expertise in one or more of the following: Android Development, Reverse Engineering, Pentesting, Application Security Assessments, Capture the Flag (CTF)
- Our Android Reverse Engineering Program also requires hands on experience with the following:
- Analyzing, unpacking, and reverse engineering code of malicious applications or SDKs
- Static and Dynamic Analysis Techniques
- Reverse Engineering tools such as Jadx, Ghidra, Frida, IDA Pro, Burp, to perform binary and APK analysis
- Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Flutter, and other mobile software languages
- ELF (Native Binaries) reverse engineering
- Development of signatures (SQL, Yara, etc.)
- Android Fundamentals such as Android activity lifecycles, common Android API usage, AOSP, and how an Android application is created
- Techniques utilized by malicious applications to harm the user's device or their data
- Mobile App store policies (Ads, PHAs, Developer, etc.)
- Network traffic analysis; security fundamentals
- Research on threats such as APT using Open-Source Intelligence (Virus Total, Web, ExploitDB, MITRE, etc.)
- Encoding and Cryptography
- Authentication mechanisms and security
- Device rooting
- Complex frameworks and application packers
- An understanding of the following topics will be greatly appreciated and utilized:
Benefits
- Retirement Plans
- Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Support for Community Involvement
- A variety of social programs
- Flexible work hours
- Family-friendly benefits
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