Adversarial Security Test Engineer

Sandisk
Milpitas, CA
Category Security
Job Description
Role Overview

The Adversarial Security Test Engineer will strengthen the security resilience of SanDisk firmware-driven products and storage platforms by conducting attacker-informed security testing. The role focuses on exploitability analysis, offensive security testing, attack-path validation, fuzzing, reverse engineering, and adversarial assessment.

What You Will Do

The ideal candidate will conduct adversarial security testing against firmware, embedded systems, and storage products to identify realistic attack paths and security weaknesses. They will simulate realistic attacker techniques to evaluate product resilience, exploitability, and effectiveness of implemented security controls.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will possess a strong offensive security mindset, enjoy challenging assumptions, and uncover weaknesses. They will leverage modern tooling, including AI-assisted techniques, to improve the scale, speed, and depth of adversarial security analysis.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s of Master's 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
  • Strong experience with penetration testing, fuzzing, reverse engineering, exploitability analysis, debugging low-level systems, vulnerability research
  • Strong understanding of secure boot, firmware architectures, embedded systems security, cryptography fundamentals, attack surface analysis, hardware/firmware trust boundaries
  • Programming or scripting experience in Python, C/C++, or related languages

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • Paid sick leave
  • Medical/dental/vision insurance
  • Life, accident and disability insurance
  • Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Employee assistance program
  • Other voluntary benefit programs
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Transit
  • Applause Program
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
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