Halcyon

Senior Product Security Engineer

Halcyon

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $155,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Python

About the role

  • Design and implement security test harnesses from scratch to simulate real-world ransomware behavior
  • Develop and integrate fuzzers (libFuzzer, AFL/WinAFL, or custom tools) for automated crash and vulnerability discovery
  • Build user-mode hooking instrumentation and explore EDR bypass techniques to exercise agent internals
  • Triage, reproduce, and analyze security findings against our agent and libraries
  • Perform root-cause analysis on crashes or logic flaws; build minimal PoC exploits or reproducer cases
  • Deep understanding of Windows internals (ring transitions, memory management, Win32 API) with focus on user-mode security hooks
  • Collaborate on driver-level or API-level integrations when necessary (no kernel-driver dev required)

Requirements

  • 5+ years in product security or endpoint-focused consulting, with hands-on testing of Windows-based agents or EDR/AV products
  • Experience building fuzzers or integrating existing fuzzing frameworks for native code
  • Experience and capability in building automated test harnesses from the ground up
  • Strong Windows OS internals knowledge, especially user-mode hooking and Win32 API behaviors
  • Proficient in C/C++ and Python, with solid experience calling with Windows APIs
  • Experience reviewing and validating security findings
  • Comfortable researching and suggesting security features end-to-end and creating technical content
Benefits
  • Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
  • 401k plan with a generous employer contribution.
  • Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life, and AD&D insurance plans.
  • Medical and dependent care FSA options.
  • Flexible PTO policy.
  • Parental leave.
  • Generous equity offering.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
CC++PythonfuzzerslibFuzzerAFLWindows APIssecurity test harnessesroot-cause analysisuser-mode hooking
Soft skills
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