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# Sr. Exploit Developer

- **Company:** Exploitation Prevention Labs LLC
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Snort (Software), Reverse Engineering Software
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/sr-exploit-developer-us-vulncheck-8130267

## About the Role

* Prior experience with writing exploit code for RCE / initial access vulnerabilities (that do not require authentication to exploit)
 * Experience working on technical projects remotely, alone, and on small teams

Preferred Qualifications

 * Prior Cybersecurity work experience (at a vendor or in Government).
 * Able to share example exploit code written.

*IMPORTANT NOTE: This position may involve access to technology subject to U.S. export control regulations. Employment is contingent upon the company's ability to authorize access under applicable export control, sanctions, and any other applicable legal or contractual requirements. The company does not guarantee and is under no obligation to seek such authorization if it would be necessary.

## Description

You'll be joining a collaborative, supportive environment that values intellectual curiosity, technical mastery, and personal growth. (And more - below)

 * Leverage your expertise: Work on cutting-edge threat intelligence initiatives that matter, alongside the top domain experts in the field.
 * Shape the industry: Influence how vulnerabilities are classified, scored, mapped, and remediated at scale for enterprise customers and for the entire cybersecurity industry.
 * Grow your impact: Collaborate with global partners, lead high-visibility projects, and drive standards across the security community.
 * Innovate and explore: Conduct research and develop tools for automating and improving vulnerability enrichment and mapping.

What You'll Do

 * Reverse engineering software to discover the root cause analysis (RCA) of vulnerabilities.
 * Authoring original software exploits for initial access vulnerabilities, when little or no publicly-available proof of concept code for exploiting such vulnerabilities exists.
 * Implementing detections (such as Suricata & Snort signatures, YARA rules, etc.) for identifying such initial access vulnerabilities being exploited on the wire
 * Writing Attack Surface Management (ASM) queries (e.g., Shodan, Census, FOFA, & ZoomEye) for finding vulnerable systems likely to be targeted


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