Performance Researcher

at  Intel

JOB DESCRIPTION

Join Intel as a Performance Researcher! The Performance Researcher is responsible for leading or taking an active role in complex, multidisciplinary security research projects. Commands deep pervasive pulse on Intel business/technologies and emerging threat landscape in hacker community to prioritize offensive security research focus.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Willing to navigate around ambiguities and obstacles to independently solve complex problems.
• Demonstrated expertise in vulnerability discovery, analysis and exploitation.
• Explores and invents software and hardware techniques as a method of attack against compute targets.
• Develops proof of concepts to characterize exploitability and impacts.
• Recommends systemic mitigations and demonstrates their robustness across a diverse portfolio of products.
• Leads automation pathfinding to improve security assurance capabilities of product teams.
• Shares expert insights and new learning and contributes intellectual property to internal and external communities.

The ideal candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits:

• Autodidact professional eager to learn new domains.
• Strong verbal, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.
• An autodidact who is eager to learn new domains.
• A team player, always eager to learn more and educate others.

QUALIFICATIONS

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The candidate must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science and 9+ years of experience -OR- High School Diploma/equivalent and 9+ years of experience, including the following:

• Low-level development language: Rust/ C/ C++.
• System programming experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with multiple popular languages (Java/Python/ Node.js).
• Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, MIPS, SPARC, or others).
• Experience with Linux kernel development.
• Experience contributing to one or many open-source projects.

• Willing to navigate around ambiguities and obstacles to independently solve complex problems.
• Demonstrated expertise in vulnerability discovery, analysis and exploitation.
• Explores and invents software and hardware techniques as a method of attack against compute targets.
• Develops proof of concepts to characterize exploitability and impacts.
• Recommends systemic mitigations and demonstrates their robustness across a diverse portfolio of products.
• Leads automation pathfinding to improve security assurance capabilities of product teams.
• Shares expert insights and new learning and contributes intellectual property to internal and external communities