Senior Principal Security Researcher MacOS (Cortex)

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Job Summary

We are looking for a macOS Security Researcher for our Tel Aviv R&D center to work on Cortex-XDR for Mac. You will be part of a team in charge of researching developing and improving Anti-Malware and Anti-Exploit capabilities. This role involves researching OS internals exploits malware and finding ways to mitigate new attack vectors.

Key Responsibilities

• Research develop and improve anti-exploitation mitigations and anti-malware modules.

• Research macOS internals application code bases vulnerabilities and exploits.

• Research malware and find different ways to detect and prevent them.

• Analyze customer data to help with detecting and preventing malicious activities in our customers networks.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of some Unix-based operating system internals.

• Experience in security research - 3 years at least

• Minimum 2 years of development experience in C/C.

• Development knowledge in one or more scripting languages.

• Ability to work independently and as a part of a team.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to take initiative.

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of macOS internals.

• Development experience in Swift or Objective C.

• Experience with python or Lua scripting languages.

• Experience in reverse engineering - both static and dynamic (arm/x86/64 architectures).

• Exploitation experience (either application level security or memory corruptions).

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