Staff Security Researcher, Vulnerability Research – Emergent Threat Response, Metasploit

Job Description:

  • Analyze newly disclosed and actively exploited vulnerabilities under tight timelines
  • Determine vulnerability root cause, exploitability, and real-world impact
  • Reproduce vulnerabilities and build working exploits from patch diffs, advisories, and limited public information
  • Document behavioral differences across affected versions and platforms
  • Publish technically rigorous root cause analyses
  • Advise detection and vulnerability check engineers on coverage
  • Help internal teams and customers understand threat urgency and impact
  • Serve as a go-to expert during high-velocity security events
  • Develop and contribute high-quality exploit modules to Metasploit
  • Improve the Metasploit Framework through new capabilities, tooling, library enhancements, and quality improvements
  • Review community and internal module contributions
  • Partner with the Metasploit engineering team on roadmap priorities
  • Identify and research new vulnerabilities affecting enterprise technologies
  • Help define longer-term research priorities and emerging attack-surface perspectives
  • Contribute technical trend analysis to Rapid7 research reports and publications
  • Represent the team's work through conference talks, webcasts, blog posts, and media engagements
  • Mentor and develop other researchers through code review, pairing, documentation, and technical guidance
  • Explain technical risk to audiences ranging from engineers to executives

Requirements:

  • Demonstrable expertise across most major vulnerability classes and exploitation techniques
  • Ability to reproduce vulnerabilities and attacks quickly and effectively
  • Experience developing complex exploit chains from scratch, including from patch diffs or minimal public detail
  • Strong reverse engineering and binary/code diffing skills, including against large codebases or binaries
  • Expert-level understanding of networking, operating system internals for one or more major operating systems, and/or bypassing common exploit mitigations
  • Track record of writing about vulnerabilities and exploits for a public audience
  • Track record of speaking about research at conferences, webcasts, or similar venues
  • Ability to build custom tooling as needed
  • Ability to scope work into clear milestones rather than monolithic deliverables
  • Willingness to mentor and teach
  • Clear communication of objectives, rationale, complex attack patterns, and risks to technical stakeholders and detection engineers
  • Experience driving change and focusing on emerging threats
  • Accountability for driving outcomes and meeting commitments
  • Experience working cross-functionally during time-sensitive security events
  • Ability to translate technical findings for non-technical stakeholders
  • Alignment with Rapid7's core values
  • Published zero-day vulnerabilities and CVEs (nice to have)
  • Prior contributions to the Metasploit Framework or other open source security projects (nice to have)
  • Media training or experience speaking with journalists (nice to have)
  • Experience applying AI or LLM-based tooling to accelerate vulnerability research or exploit development (nice to have)

Benefits:

  • Variable/incentive compensation (excluded from base salary range)
  • Equity (where applicable/eligible)
  • Benefits (where applicable/eligible)
  • Fair and equitable compensation practices
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