Senior iOS Cybersecurity Expert

L3Harris is seeking a highly skilled Senior iOS Cyber Specialist to join our elite team of engineers and security researchers.

This is a high-profile role that is pivotal to the overall success of the company. You will work closely with our researchers and also with the commercial arm of the business. You will provide technical leadership to less experienced engineers. You will represent the engineering arm of the company at major conferences.

The key responsibilities for a Senior iOS Cyber Specialist will include:

• Liaising with security researchers to adopt working research output into commercial products.
• Guiding product architecture to support the goals of sustainability, testability, reliability, and integrity.
• Contributing significantly to the implementation of the products at all levels.
• Implementing tests that demonstrate the effectiveness of the products and providing confidence that the products are reliable and robust.
• Effectively communicating status and technical challenges using language that is appropriate to the audience.
• Participating in planning and prioritization activities with members of the commercial arm of the organization.
• Providing level 4 support of customer-reported issues.
• Documenting design and implementation decisions appropriate for an expert audience.
• Writing user documentation appropriate for customers.
• Participating in the development and delivery of user training.
• Providing guidance to less experienced engineers in technical fields relevant to the platform and the domains of cybersecurity and software engineering.
• Monitoring industry trends and publicly disclosed techniques.

The qualifications and experience we expect for this role include:

• A tertiary degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Substantial experience in offensive cybersecurity.
• Substantial experience working in a professional engineering environment.

The skills and attributes we expect you to bring to this role include:

• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous or incompletely defined problems and resolve them through consultation with appropriate stakeholders.
• Demonstrated a collaborative and team-oriented mindset for accomplishing goals and a bias to action – a desire to make things happen.
• Reasonable written and oral communication skills, and a propensity to ask questions when you don't know.
• Exceptional demonstrated proficiency in all aspects of the iOS platform relevant to cybersecurity, including aarch64 assembly, iOS system internals, the C, Objective-C, Swift, and JavaScript programming languages, memory management, and pointer integrity techniques, and Apple's approach to code signing.
• Demonstrated proficiency using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, or Hopper and dynamic tools such as Frida.
• Demonstrated proficiency using common software development tools such as git and cmake.
• Demonstrated proficiency with techniques for Continuous Integration, preferably using Gitlab CI.
• Demonstrated proficiency using Xcode.

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers' mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $17 billion in annual revenue, 50,000 employees, and customers in more than 130 countries.

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.