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Hardware Reverse Engineer

Skills
JavaAutocadC++Electronics Hardware DesignField-Programmable Gate ArraysHardware ArchitectureLabview
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Practical experience with embedded systems or hardware reverse engineering
  • Experience extracting firmware from undocumented or difficult devices
  • Board-level debugging and electrical analysis skills
  • Microsoldering rework chip removal or in-circuit probing experience
  • Knowledge of embedded storage such as eMMC NAND NOR SPI flash or UFS
  • Familiarity with JTAG SWD UART boot ROMs bootloaders or debug authentication
  • Ability to read schematics datasheets ball maps or boardviews
  • Experience with embedded architectures such as ARM MIPS PowerPC RISC-V Xtensa or Hexagon
  • Understanding of secure boot encrypted storage TEEs or hardware-backed key storage
  • Ability to write scripts or tools in Python C C++ Rust or similar
  • Firmware reverse engineering using Ghidra Binary Ninja IDA Pro or similar

Nice to have

  • Curious
  • Persistent
  • Methodical
  • Independent
  • Technical writing

Day to day

  • Build and operate a repeatable hardware security testing platform for difficult embedded targets
  • Inspect boards trace signals identify components and discover access paths for firmware extraction
  • Use lab equipment and custom tooling to extract validate and document firmware from protected systems
  • Collaborate with researchers and produce organized technical notes pinouts images dumps and reproduction steps

Hiring process

  • Send a brief introduction
  • Share examples of relevant hardware reverse engineering or embedded security work
  • Provide links to technical blogs research GitHub repositories conference talks write-ups or documentation
  • Describe the most difficult hardware target worked on and approach used
  • Include location general availability and expected compensation