Internship - Vulnerability Research Intern

About our Team

Samsung Electronics is one of the world's largest information technology companies headquartered in Suwon, South Korea. It is the world's largest manufacturer of smartphones fueled by the success of its Samsung Galaxy line of devices.

Mobile Security team, Samsung R&D Poland is looking for talents in field of Information Security aspiring to become world-class Security Engineers/ Vulnerability Researchers. The main responsibilities of this role are looking for new and analyzing existing vulnerabilities of Samsung Mobile products (focused on Linux kernel and native user space) as well as a development, planning, implementation and conducting of a security analysis of variety of Samsung products.

Role and Responsibilities

• Supporting building, maintaining, improving and extending functionalities of the distributed fuzzing framework for the discovery and triage of vulnerabilities, also Hardware maintenance.

• Updating Known Vulnerabilities database and improvement of automated regression testing framework, maintaining tests for use with newer platform versions.

• Supporting engineers in conducting security assessment of the newest Samsung flagship devices (Galaxy S, Note and Watch devices).

• Learning focused on Security with aim of finding vulnerabilities in Samsung products.

• Finding bugs in software applications, system services, drivers and kernel to identify potential vulnerabilities.

Skills and Qualifications

• Ability to 'think outside of the box' and a passion for solving unique challenges in technical environments, desire to work with innovative, always changing source-code environment.

• Comprehensive programming knowledge and experience in C and/or C++ language.

• Will to learn and explore all aspects of application security.

• Interest in learning about different type of fuzzing techniques and related tools.

Nice to have

• Ability to leverage scripting languages like Bash or Python for implementation of automatable tasks.

• Understanding of Linux/Android Operating System low-level components like drivers.

• Knowledge of Kernel interworking with drivers, services and higher-level platform components.

• Basics of code review focused on finding vulnerabilities, ability to spot and propose tests of exploitability of possible issues like overflows in given piece of code.

• Knowledge about reverse-engineering and binary analysis, GDB, IDA Pro.

We offer

Internship conditions:

• Cooperation based on a civil law contract

• Flexible working hours

• Possibility of long-lasting cooperation

Team:

• Friendly working atmosphere

• Wide range of trainings, support in test automation and testing skills

• Opportunity to work in multiple projects

• Working with the latest technologies

• Monthly celebration budget

Benefits:

• Variety of discounts (Samsung products, theaters, restaurants)

• Free access to Copernicus Science Center for you and your friends

• Variety of tea, coffee and fresh fruits/vegetable

Location:

• Office in Warsaw Spire near metro station