Penetration Tester / ML Data Collection
Autoroboto
Apply to this job Mountain View, CA on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 21, 2025 Last posted March 21, 2025
Job description
About
AutoRoboto is a consulting firm that specializes in engineering and management that has provided services for some of the largest tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. These services include mechanical, electrical, software design, data collection quality assurance, and testing of new hardware and software. We pride ourselves on being a small company able to be extremely flexible to customers ever changing demands.
The Role
As a penetration tester, you’ll take a proactive, offensive role in cybersecurity by performing penetration attacks on existing digital systems. These tests might use a variety of hacking tools and techniques to find gaps that hackers could exploit. Throughout the process, you’ll document your actions in detail and create a report on what you did and how successful you were at breaching security protocols.
Responsibilities
- Analyze attacks and perform reverse engineering to define vulnerabilities
- Planning and executing tests, documenting your methodologies, and creating detailed reports about your findings.
- Create new testing methods to identify vulnerabilities
- Identify security weaknesses - Pinpoint methods and entry points that attackers may use to exploit vulnerabilities or weaknesses
Qualifications
- 2+ years experience in mobile testing, scientific lab work, or thorough debugging experience
- 1+ year experience in animation / game development
- Research or work experience in facial recognition
- Proficiency with Photoshop
- Photography advanced knowledge
- Experience using 3d printers and other maker space tools
- Good working knowledge of linux command line
- Quality Assurance experience
- Photography experience
- Critical thinker and creative problem solver
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Excellent communications skills and ability to document and share findings
- An ability to “think like the enemy” in order to combat the full range of techniques and strategies that hackers might employ, or even to anticipate new ones
Compensation (from employer):
65000–80000 USD per year
About this role
Summary
Perform cybersecurity penetration tests, analyze vulnerabilities, document findings, and develop testing methodologies.
Job title
Penetration Tester / ML Data Collection
Experience level
2+ years
Industry
software
Location requirements
Located in Mountain View, CA, remote not specified.
Salary
65000–80000 USD per year
Management role
No
Skills & keywords
Required skills
linux command linereverse engineeringsecurity testingreport writing
Preferred skills
photoshopfacial recognitionmaker tools3d printers
Specializations
penetration testingcybersecurityreverse engineeringsecurity vulnerabilities
Locations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Mountain View, CA, USA
On-site City