Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.
Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
We are seeking a highly skilled Security Researcher who views a black box not as a roadblock, but as an invitation. We need an investigator with an insatiable, demonstrated curiosity for figuring out how software and hardware truly work under the hood—regardless of how they are advertised or intended to function. In this role, you will be on the front lines of vulnerability discovery, dismantling complex systems to expose their flaws. You will frequently operate in the dark, confronting entirely new pieces of software or hardware with zero documentation. Success requires extreme comfort with uncertainty, a hypothesis-driven approach to experimentation, and the engineering chops to build custom utilities when off-the-shelf tools fall short.
You will not be working in a silo. You will push your research to the absolute limit, but you also possess the wisdom to know when to ask for help, share your breakthroughs, and collaborate to drive the broader project forward.
Role Expectations
- Typically has a University Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience.
- Works to achieve operational targets with a significant impact on the job area often influence departmental results.
- Responsible for making adjustments or recommending enhancements to systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area.
- Communicates and collaborates within and occasionally outside of own job area and may work to influence parties within own job area at an operational level.
- May provide guidance and assistance to junior individual contributors.
- Requires practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
- Deep experience with the Windows OS architecture, kernel, hardware abstraction layer, Win32 API, memory management, and security mitigations
- Expert-level understanding of Windows binary formats, calling conventions, and execution flows
- Advanced knowledge of Windows-related file systems
- Knowledge of Windows networking stack and proprietary protocols
- Strong knowledge of static and dynamic analysis tools and methods
- Fluent in x86/x64 assembly, ARM assembly, C/C++, and Python
- Experience with creating and orchestrating automated AI workflows, integrating traditional reverse engineering tools
- Experience with frontier models (e.g., GPT-5, Claude), Binary Ninja, Ghidra, IDA Pro, WinDbg
- Great communication skills and ability to integrate work products with other tools
Salary Range: $113,000 - $338,000
Skills Required
- University degree or equivalent experience
- At least 5 years of relevant experience
- Deep experience with Windows OS architecture, kernel, hardware abstraction layer, Win32 API, memory management, and security mitigations
- Expert understanding of Windows binary formats, calling conventions, and execution flows
- Advanced knowledge of Windows-related file systems
- Knowledge of the Windows networking stack and proprietary protocols
- Strong knowledge of static and dynamic analysis tools and methods
- Fluency in x86/x64 assembly, ARM assembly, C, C++, and Python
- Experience creating and orchestrating automated AI workflows integrated with reverse-engineering tools
- Experience with frontier models such as GPT-5 and Claude
- Experience with Binary Ninja, Ghidra, IDA Pro, and WinDbg
- Strong communication skills and ability to integrate work products with other tools
Clarity Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Clarity and has not been reviewed or approved by Clarity.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered strong, with multiple references to “good” or “excellent” compensation. Salary snapshots for engineering and platform roles depict robust pay across multiple seniority levels.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside mental‑health support and wellness programs. The breadth of core offerings indicates comprehensive health support for individuals and families.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions cover company holidays, PTO, and defined leaves such as parental, bereavement, and jury duty. This range of leave types supports common personal and family needs.
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What We Do
Clarity Innovations designs, develops, and deploys force-enhancing software that links human ingenuity to powerful computing and makes our country and our world a better, safer place. Our principles of servant leadership, mutual respect, and technological excellence enable us to thrive on the challenges of the digital frontline. Clarity is focused on helping the Government redefine its relationship with technology by encouraging the use of DevSecOps and Agile methodologies, small-teams constructs, and process automation. To create an atmosphere that embraces the challenges inherent in progress, we honor creativity and curiosity, supporting exploration and growth with modern tech stacks and methodologies. We are as much a family as we are a team, collectively engineering technology that improves the lives and work of the people who use it. We empower our people with the tools, training, and vision they need to outperform the competition.
