Introduction
Information and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today’s businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM’s clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client's organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

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.

Qualified candidates must be able to work in-person starting May 2024 until August 2024 from IBM's Austin, TX (strongly preferred) location or from IBM's Cambridge, MA or Sandy Springs, GA locations.

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

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

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.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

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

About Business Unit

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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