About the Role
Breakpoint Research builds mission-critical offensive cyber capabilities to strengthen and advance democracy. We are seeking experienced software developers to collaborate with our research team, transforming fragile proofs-of-concept into dependable, field-ready capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining tools for researchers.
- Transforming research into reliable field capabilities.
- Owning testing and automation for reliability.
Requirements
- Generalist software developer comfortable with diverse tasks.
- Proficient in both low- and high-level languages.
- Adherence to good engineering standards including version control, code review, and documentation.
- Focus on maintainable and reliable code.
- Ability to collaborate and support teammates.
- Open to candidates with non-traditional backgrounds and no public artifacts.
Skills
- Debugging
- Refactoring
- Tool building
- Testing
- Automation
- Version control
- Code review
- Documentation
- Developer tools
- Researcher tools
- CI
- Automation frameworks
- Kernel development
- Firmware development
- Embedded systems
- Assembly language
- Reverse engineering concepts
- File format analysis
- Protocol analysis
- Data parsing
- Reliability engineering
Location
- Remote, globally
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- Salaries benchmarked for each local market (UK, US, Australia, etc.). Candidates should state expectations.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus local holidays.
- Bonus scheme.
- Training and conference budgets.
- Employee assistance program.
- Regular team get-togethers (seasonal parties, technical workshops, annual offsite).
- UK: Annual leave increases annually up to 28 days, 6% matched pension, private medical insurance, 4x death in service, cycle-to-work scheme.
- USA: Matched 401(k) up to 4%, healthcare, dental, and vision cover.
- Australia: Minimum 12% superannuation.
- Customized packages for other global locations.
About the Company
- Breakpoint Research builds novel, mission-critical offensive cyber capabilities.
- We are relentlessly curious, unafraid to try new things, and own our failures alongside our wins.
- We act with honesty, integrity, humility and kindness.
- Our culture is built on deep collaboration.
Equal Opportunity
- Breakpoint Research is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- We consider applicants from any country and background.
