Reverse Engineer-2026
(In-office, Sterling, VA)
Job Description:
SIXGEN is actively seeking candidates to provide critical support for a variety of IC, DoD, and DoJ customers. The Embedded Engineer reverse engineers code to understand system internals with the intention of writing code to protect a platform against attacks and intrusions within an embedded environment system. Our engineers also perform reverse engineering tasks using GDB and Ghidra to find relevant functions in compiled software. This role requires you to be a U.S. citizen and hold a current Top Secret clearance. Location: Sterling, Va.
Responsibilities include:
- Identifying relevant functionality and internal structures through reverse engineering of compiled code that runs on a variety of computing platforms
- Developing C code in the kernel and userland for embedded operating systems
- Developing Python code for system analysis framework
- Reverse engineering compiled code with IDA Pro, Ghidra, and radare2
- Reverse engineering embedded system hardware including black box analysis, firmware extraction, and debugging using GDB, JTAG, and other equivalent tools
- Implementing automation for deployment, testing our tools, and reverse engineering
- Occasional travel to other sites for technical exchanges
Technologies:
C, Python, C++, Git, Linux, Embedded Operating Systems, Hardware Reverse Engineering, Compilers (GCC/LLVM)
Culture and Benefits:
We recognize that a company is nothing without well-cared for employees; we go to great lengths to ensure that our employees are happy, supported, and constantly presented with opportunities for both personal and professional growth.
We offer the following benefits:
- Industry leading company-funded medical, dental, and vision insurance family plans
- Reimbursement for gym memberships, lunches with coworkers, and personal career training
- Flexible hours and opportunities to work from home
- 248 hours annually paid time off and company paid 401K!
At SIXGEN, we embrace people of all backgrounds. We are an equal opportunity employer.
Top Skills
What We Do
At SIXGEN, we’ve cracked the code on meaningful and innovative ways to support the cyber mission. Our workforce provides incident response, operational and penetration testing, red teaming, tool development, cyber training development and continuous monitoring. Our on-site and remote assessments are used to identify vulnerabilities within the most critical networks. We lead cybersecurity innovation in product development by designing and evolving highly specialized hardware and software focused on Endpoint Detection and Response, Red Team, Data Science, and Threat Intelligence missions. We take pride in our work and the resulting enhanced cybersecurity posture for our customers around the globe.
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