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.
Role
As a member of the Security Research team, you will imagine weaknesses in multiple types of systems and then find, demonstrate/document, and exploit those weaknesses. You will be joining a team of mature and extremely competent Security Researchers to breakdown and fully understand how a host of different systems function. You will need to leverage extensive experience performing static and dynamic analysis and must be familiar with multiple classes of vulnerabilities. Additionally, you must be extremely comfortable communicating with team members, technical partners, and non-technical partners alike. The ideal candidate will be comfortable and confident operating at the early phases of a vulnerability research project and have the mettle to see the project through to multiple phases and iterations.
Responsibilities
- Perform vulnerability research and reverse engineering for customer tasks
- Perform static and dynamic analysis by applying research tools such as disassemblers, debuggers, and fuzzers
- Perform exploit development leveraging discovered vulnerabilities
- Communicate security research findings internally and, when and where appropriate, externally Mentor fellow security researchers
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance (note, only US Citizens are eligible for security clearances)
- Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Degree requirement can be met with four years of hands on experience in a software engineer or similar full time position
- Experience participating in CTFs, hackathons, or other cyber competitions
- Experience with Ghidra, Binary Ninja, IDA or other reverse engineering/disassembler tools
- Experience working in Linux fundamentals (understanding sockets, file descriptors, networking, iptables, file systems, kernel, etc.)
- Ability to read and write C and assembly languages as needed (ARM, MIPS, x86_64)
- Programming fundamentals; particularly with networking, data structures, and data models
- Understanding of exploitation techniques such as leveraging arbitrary read-write primitives, shellcoding, and return-oriented programming / jump-oriented programming
Preferred Experience
- Currently possess a Top Secret security clearance
- OS and kernel reverse engineering
- Understanding of fuzzers such as AFL++ or libfuzzer
- Understanding of common exploit mitigation mechanisms such as SELinux, Seccomp, ASLR, and CFI.
- Strong understanding of dynamic analysis with gdb/gdbserver and similar tools
- Basic understanding of processor tool chains and the Android NDK
- Understanding of emulation using Qemu or Unicorn for running code in a non-native environment
- Experience identifying 0-days and vulnerabilities
- We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Skills Required
- Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance (US citizenship required)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline, or four years equivalent hands-on experience
- Experience participating in CTFs, hackathons, or other cyber competitions
- Experience with Ghidra, Binary Ninja, IDA, or other reverse engineering/disassembler tools
- Experience with Linux fundamentals (sockets, file descriptors, networking, iptables, file systems, kernel)
- Ability to read and write C and assembly languages (ARM, MIPS, x86_64)
- Programming fundamentals, especially networking, data structures, and data models
- Understanding of exploitation techniques (arbitrary read-write primitives, shellcoding, ROP/JOP)
- Possess a Top Secret security clearance
- OS and kernel reverse engineering experience
- Fuzzer experience (AFL++, libfuzzer)
- Understanding of exploit mitigations (SELinux, Seccomp, ASLR, CFI)
- Strong dynamic analysis skills with gdb/gdbserver and similar tools
- Basic understanding of processor toolchains and the Android NDK
- Emulation experience using QEMU or Unicorn
- Experience identifying 0-day vulnerabilities
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.
