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Reverse Engineer - Mobile Apps

Austin, TX 73301

Posted: 03/20/2025 Category: iOS / Android / Mobility Job Number: 112076 Pay Rate: Between $60 and $100/hr based on experience Work Location: On-Site

Job Description

Reverse Engineer – Mid & Snr Level

Locations: Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA or Bothell, WA

We are seeking a highly skilled Android App and SDK Reverse Engineers to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Android internals, a strong aptitude for reverse engineering techniques, and a passion for unraveling complex software. This role will involve analyzing and deconstructing Android applications and SDKs to identify potential security risks and gain insights into their underlying functionality.

Responsibilities:
Deep Dive Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of Android applications and SDKs to understand their codebase, architecture, and functionality.
Reverse Engineering Techniques: Employ advanced reverse engineering techniques to extract information from various codebases, including decompilation, disassembly, and debugging.
Risk Identification: Identify user and device risk, data leakage, and malicious code execution within Android apps and SDKs.
Tool Development: Develop and maintain custom reverse engineering tools and scripts to automate tasks and improve efficiency.
Security Assessment: Conduct security assessments of Android applications and SDKs to identify potential risks.
Threat Intelligence: Gather and analyze threat intelligence related to Android malware, exploits, and emerging security trends.
Collaboration: Collaborate with security researchers, developers, and other stakeholders to share findings, provide recommendations, and contribute to the development of secure software.
Continuous Learning: Stay updated on the latest Android security threats, vulnerabilities, and reverse engineering techniques.

Requirements:
Hands on Experience with the following:
  • Analyzing, unpacking, and reverse engineering code of malicious applications or SDKs.
  • Ability to read, comprehend and analyze source code
  • Static and Dynamic Analysis Techniques
  • Reverse Engineering tools such as Jadx, Ghidra, Frida, IDA Pro, Burp, to perform binary and APK analysis
  • Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Flutter, and other mobile software languages
  • ELF (Native Binaries) reverse engineering
  • Query languages such as SQL
    Understanding of the following topics
  • Android Fundamentals such as Android activity lifecycles, common Android API usage, AOSP, and how an android application is created.
  • Java and/or Kotlin Programing Language
  • Mobile App store policies (Ads, PHAs, Developer, etc.)
  • Network traffic analysis; security fundamentals
     
Additional:
  • Development of signatures (Yara, etc.)
  • Research on threats such as APT using Open-Source Intelligence (Virus Total, Web, ExploitDB, MITRE, etc.)
  • In depth knowledge of security engineering and analysis topics, computer and network security, cryptography, authentication security, rooting, packing, network protocols and interception.

Nice to Have:
  • Experience with Vulnerability Analysis or security code review
  • Android Software Development Experience
  • Background / Familiarity with Google Ads or Content moderation
  • Participation in a Capture the Flag (CTF) for Mobile software
  • Pentesting, Blue Team, and/or Red Team experience

Professional Experience and Education
  • Required: 3 - 5+ years experience in one or more of the following: Android Development, Reverse Engineering, Pen testing, Application Security Assessments
  • Preferred: Associates/Bachelor’s Degree/master’s in computer science, computer engineering, CS, or information systems, or related discipline.
  • 3 - 5 years of hands on Android App/SDK Reverse Engineering.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to use hands and fingers, reach, climb stairs, walk, sit for prolonged periods of time, talk, and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty-five pounds.

Consulting Solutions and its family of companies is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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