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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence team is looking for a Reverse Engineer/Hybrid Reverse Engineer intern to help drive intelligence operations at scale that would combine aspects of software development, malware analysis, and cyber threat intelligence analysis. This role requires the candidate to provide basic malware triage and run-time malware analysis support. The candidate will review dynamic analysis artifacts and execute malware in a virtual environment to assist incident responders, cyber threat analysts, and reverse engineers in extracting indicators of compromise. The role requires the candidate to understand how malicious software interacts with its environment to determine and explain propagation and potential malicious capabilities. The candidate will write signatures to detect and identify malware and learn to develop targeted parsing and decoding scripts to support automation efforts.

Candidates should demonstrate background in computer science or engineering and an interest in malware analysis and reverse engineering. Our ideal candidates must demonstrate technical and problem-solving skills, a passion for technology and software, teamwork skills, and leadership potential. Candidates must be able to work on a remote team in a driven environment and exhibit creative thinking and collaboration. They should have the ability to turn ideas into reality, communicate effectively, and work closely with others in teams around the world. The successful candidate will be able to succinctly communicate complex material to a range of audiences.

For more information about IBM Consulting and X-Force Threat Intelligence, please visit: [1] https://www.ibm.com/services/threat-intelligence
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Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

Currently pursuing a degree in: Systems Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Telecommunications and Networking Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, etc.

Experience with virtual environments

Experience developing simple tools or scripts using Python

Experience using disassemblers or debuggers

Familiarization with operating system internals (Windows or Linux)

Demonstrated ability to present technical findings through written reports or oral briefings for dissemination to various technical audiences

Thorough and analytical, with capability to apply logic to solve problems.

Initiative to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills and a willingness to learn.

Advanced English level.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience supporting incident response partners, managed security teams, or cyber threat analysis teams.

Understanding of fundamentals of operating systems to be able to explain malicious software execution, propagation, and persistence.

Experience with network or log analysis

Comfortable participating in code review process

Experience or knowledge of hunting and detecting malware using YARA signatures.

Experience with open-source intrusions set profiling and researching malware family analysis