Research Scientist, Penetration Testing
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Job Description
Harbor Labs is currently seeking candidates for the Penetration Testing Specialist position. This position works primarily with Senior Research Scientists to perform comprehensive security assessments and penetration testing against a broad variety of client devices and systems. Duties can include protocol analysis, vulnerability discovery and exploitation, post exploitation impact analysis, and physical security. Penetration Testing Specialists must be able to apply knowledge to develop comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations as needed. This position calls for a highly technical problem-solver who understands software architectures, security, communication protocols, virtualization, and hardware, and works with other engineers to the resolution of problems in design, development, and operations.
Typical Activities Include:
- Perform manual and automated firmware analysis on target devices
- Perform pen tests, fuzzing and custom exploit attacks against client medical systems
- Review deployment architectures, topologies and conops for compliance with regulatory security mandates
- Produce security reports suitable for submission to regulatory bodies
Education:
Preferred education level: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields. Graduate degree is desirable.
Required Qualifications:
- Conduct assessments of threats and vulnerabilities through testing and evaluation techniques
- Conduct hands-on technical testing beyond automated tool validation, including full exploitation and leveraging of access within multiple environments
- Conduct scenario-based security testing, or red teaming to identify gaps in detection and response capabilities of client end systems
- Conducting research and testing in support of client requirements
- Designing, implementation, and integration of security solutions
- Designing, development and support of the company’s line of technology products
Preferred Additional Qualifications:
- Knowledge of medical equipment cyber security principles and documentation
- UL 2900-2-1 Requirements
- MDS2
- Patch validation
- FDA OS patch regulations
- FDA reporting
- ICS-CERT reports
- Knowledge of PHI handling and HIPAA requirements
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Qualified candidates who may only meet a subset of these qualifications are nonetheless encouraged to submit their resumes for consideration.
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Harbor Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All offers of employment are based solely on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. This hiring policy is reflected in the extraordinary qualities of the Harbor Labs staff. Race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, non-disqualifying physical or mental disabilities, and national origin are neither an influencing factor nor a consideration in the Harbor Labs hiring process.