Sandisk
Adversarial Security Test Engineer
Milpitas, CA, United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
PythonC++LLMsCybersecurityPenetration TestingSupply ChainEmbedded SystemsElectrical EngineeringResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we're living in and that we have the power to shape.
- Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward.
Responsibilities
- Perform manual and automated security testing to identify vulnerabilities in firmware, embedded systems, host tooling, and product ecosystems.
- Develop proof-of-concept exploits and attack simulations to validate severity and remediation priorities.
- Explore and develop AI-assisted workflows for:
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience in offensive security, embedded systems security, firmware security, product security testing, or related disciplines.
Nice to have
- Experience with SSDs, storage controllers, flash technologies, embedded systems, or silicon products strongly preferred.
- Experience with reverse engineering, fuzzing, exploit development, dynamic instrumentation, or firmware analysis tools (e.g., Ghidra, IDA Pro, Frida, AFL, libFuzzer, or similar technologies).
- Experience leveraging AI/LLM technologies to accelerate vulnerability research, reverse engineering, adversarial testing, or offensive security workflows.
- Familiarity with agentic workflows, security automation, or AI-assisted code and binary analysis techniques is a plus.
- Experience with hardware or firmware security testing strongly preferred.
- Strong offensive security mindset and attacker intuition.
- Strong analytical, technical problem-solving, and reverse engineering skills.
- Curiosity and willingness to experiment with emerging AI-assisted approaches for offensive security research.
Skills
- These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations.
- fuzzing optimization,
- reverse engineering acceleration,
- vulnerability hypothesis generation,
- code and binary analysis,
Compensation
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.
- We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.
- This range may be modified in the future.
- You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.
- Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan.
- Please note that not all role
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