Penetration Tester I
autoroboto · Mountain View, CA ·
- Work mode
- Onsite
- Category
- Security
- Experience
- 1+ years
About
AutoRoboto is a consulting firm that specializes in engineering and management that has provided services for some of the largest tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. These services include mechanical, electrical, software design, data collection quality assurance, and testing of new hardware and software. We pride ourselves on being a small company able to be extremely flexible to customers ever changing demands.
The Role
As a penetration tester, you’ll take a proactive, offensive role in cybersecurity by performing penetration attacks on existing digital systems. These tests might use a variety of hacking tools and techniques to find gaps that hackers could exploit. Throughout the process, you’ll document your actions in detail and create a report on what you did and how successful you were at breaching security protocols.
Responsibilities
- Analyze attacks and perform reverse engineering to define vulnerabilities
- Planning and executing tests, documenting your methodologies, and creating detailed reports about your findings.
- Create new testing methods to identify vulnerabilities
- Identify security weaknesses - Pinpoint methods and entry points that attackers may use to exploit vulnerabilities or weaknesses
Qualifications
- 2+ years experience in mobile testing, scientific lab work, or thorough debugging experience
- 1+ year experience in animation / game development
- Research or work experience in facial recognition
- Proficiency with Photoshop
- Photography advanced knowledge
- Experience using 3d printers and other maker space tools
- Good working knowledge of linux command line
- Quality Assurance experience
- Photography experience
- Critical thinker and creative problem solver
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Excellent communications skills and ability to document and share findings
- An ability to “think like the enemy” in order to combat the full range of techniques and strategies that hackers might employ, or even to anticipate new ones