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In practice, this means that we have built a world-class team of vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, and high-assurance software engineers.\nCoreTech is looking for talented individuals with an active interest in low-level software vulnerability research and reverse engineering. In practice this means you will be familiar with native languages (e.g. C/C++), and ideally have some understanding of how computer programs are loaded and executed on Linux-based platforms. You need to be interested in how hackers achieve code execution and privilege escalation and keen to learn the dark arts of exploit development alongside our world-class research team.\nOur primary focus is conducting offensive security research against mobile operating systems and other embedded devices such as routers and CCTV cameras. 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